Are you all ready for Christmas?
What the heck were we thinking, doing all this a week before Christmas!
Frog pond Farm is now on the market.
View from the back looking to the Macedon Ranges.
We’ve decluttered and cleaned over the last few days, as though our lives depended on it. A pre arranged visit from the estate agent and photographer forced us in to taking action thinking that we’d get all that out of the way and wait a few weeks or so before going “live”. But the whole prospect of doing it all again for prospective buyers was overwhelming, so we decided to just get on with it now.
I know.
It’s Christmas.
People will be consumed by other things at the moment.
It’s holiday time and people DO go away.
It’s going to be a long, hot, dry summer.
The grass will turn yellow.
But sometimes we just do things on the spur of the moment…..very unlike me by the way. The biggest ponderer of all time. Our move to Metung was always going to happen. However, we didn’t think we’d get around to getting the ball rolling so soon.
Most of you will have moved house before I have no doubt, so you already know what’s involved. We have moved too I might add, eight times I think, however in our past lives, when Bill worked in the bank, the removalists came in and packed everything FOR us.
We didn’t have to do a thing.
They’d also unpack at the other end. We certainly didn’t have to get a property ready for inspection and selling. This is all new to us.
No wonder it’s on the list of Stressful Events in your Life.
Anyway, here we are in the midst of a selling and decluttering frenzy.
Do you have any idea how much one can gather in 30 years?
Seriously.
If anyone ends up with a Christmas present or a Christmas card this year, it’ll be a bonus.
It’s not that I’ve forgotten you, it’s just that I wouldn’t have a clue where they are in the house right now. I started a list of What Did We Do With That but that seems to have disappeared now too.
Some photos from the last couple of weeks. We spent a week at Metung helping Amy and Helen remove 18 trailer loads of green stuff from around their house.
At the farmhouse in Metung……
Here at Frog pond farm…..before we started panicking.
Some of our beautiful flowers.
A visit to Lavendula.
And another peek at the little cottage that’s about to become home as you follow the brick path from the farmhouse.
Some initial ponderings about how we might be able to get just a bit more space.
For those of you playing at home, note the size of those bedrooms.
All suggestions most welcome.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Thank you for being the readers of my recorded thoughts and photos. Hope you all come back here next year to follow our new venture in East Gippsland in spite of the fact that the updates are never very frequent. I want to get better at that.
Yep. That’ll be me.
Lots of information Helen and lovely photo's of your family and Frog Pond Farm.. I will be sad to see the day when you actually leave.. Has been your family place for many years where my family have visited. Christmas times and Birthdays and even a wedding. However wishing you and Bill future happy days in Metung. Sister Sue Gniel xoxo
ReplyDeleteWe’ve had some wonderful White family get togethers Sue. Having been a bit “central” to you all has probably made it so. We’ll remember them all ( well I probably won’t , but Bill will🤣). Xx
DeleteSome beautiful happy photos in the blog. Your next home will be filled with even more. Your home was always welcoming and it felt like another home to me. So many memories for us all. Xxx Jo
ReplyDeleteAwww, thank you Jo. I always loved taking you for a stroll around the garden and hearing you point out this and that. We had some lovely times didn’t we. You and Bill were the original “ designers” of our Rose Garden. I think there’s a photo somewhere of us out there with the hoses trying to work out how to plan it all. And my original plan of a bed of every colour! That went out the window very quickly! xx
DeleteGreat once again Helen. Checked out the real estate, if I wanted to move further down the road, closer to the big smoke and colder weather, your place would be my dream. ( not sure though that I’d want all the extra acres. …. only the garden and house area.). We
ReplyDeletewish you all the best with your move to Metung. I’m sure the girls can’t wait to have you permanently there ( built in baby sitters🤣😂🤣). Merry Christmas … hope Santa delivers a buyer quickly 🎅🎅 .. Sue & Graeme
Thanks Sue and Graeme 😘😘. We will always remember having you all out here that day. 🥰I also love that you love your garden just as much as we do. You’re right about the location. An easy drive to the city but with all the joys of living in the country. Much love and hugs.
DeleteBrilliant Mum. You've done amazingly well finding the time to even get this out there. Some beautiful photos as always too! X
ReplyDelete🤣🤣It’s like that quote. It’s been on the list for weeks and for some reason it didn’t seem to take as long as usual. Thank you for your help. 😘😘
DeleteOh, thank you for your kind words. All these lovely comments are making me more determined than ever to keep this blog going…..on a more regular basis. 🤪Who knows, I might even be able to sort out how to make us all have names instead of all being Anonymous! And how to prevent losing photos from previous blogs into cyberspace!!
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