Finito!
11/07/2006
Well, today marks the end of a very emotional journey – I’ve moved out of my room.
I’ve actually been down here almost as long as that was my bedroom – from 1st June 1995 to July 2001 upstairs, then July 2001 to the present down here. Quite funny, I seem to need a change approx every 6 years – I had my first room for 6 years 11 months, my second for 6 years 1 month and this one will probably be about 6 years by the time the building work is done…I must be getting bored quicker 😆
Mainly I think I’m glad it’s done, though I’m sad that it’s all over forever now. I’m really missing my first animals – but November isn’t a great month for that. The 18th will be 7 years since Poppy, my rabbit, died and she was incredibly special to me. The 6th would have been the 7th birthday of my mouse trio, Holly, Ivy and Star and November is also the month Holly died. Bob has no link with November but I could envisage his tank so clearly, and I found the paper copy of the poem I wrote just before I had to have him PTS.
So, I bring you bring you photos…
My room before I removed the final bits and pieces. Click for a larger picture and you can see an even larger one by using the size options 😉 Same goes for all the photos so I don’t have to keep repeating myself.
and after. Note changed curtains and headboard 😉
Boxes full of stuff for a car boot. Every one of those is as full as we could get them! Raided the banana boxes from Sainsburys (except for that fragile one which we nabbed off the end of someone’s drive; they’d put it out for the dustbin men :lol:)
This is my wardrobe, it’s stuffed with more boxes. Lots more boxes, the wardrobe is fairly full….
Another shot of the wardrobe. The door with the knob on the right is a cupboard, it’s empty except for a couple of bits I couldn’t fit downstairs (which really is my Julip stable – though not one of theirs, my grandad made mine – and (real) grooming kit)
Lastly I bring you my moved out and abandoned looking room…
That’s the end of the bed in the bottom lefhand corner. The keyboard was moved from downstairs, my bookcase was there but I wanted it downstairs so the keyboard and bookcase swapped places. The first three drawers of the chest of drawers have my clothes in, the bottom drawer is empty. My clothes are staying there for now but when the extension is built I’ll be getting a new chest of drawers because I can’t open that one.
And this is the other end of the room. The cupboard on the left is empty save for a large pile of magazines which are awaiting car booting/recycling/something, as they’re heavy it seemed like the most sensible place. Looks very abandoned now doesn’t it?
So, there we have it. Chapter closed! I need to get my current room in order again and then I’ll take a couple of photos of that too. Can’t wait, can you 😉
