Countdown to déménagement
OK. We're in the countdown to the move. This week we have to:
1) sign on the house (5:30 Friday!)
2) pack as much and as best we can
3) inform all the utilities (phone, water, gas, electricity, internet) and the insurance
4) also continue as much as possible with the regular ministry
I'd really like to cover for Fiona at the centre as much as I can - she's at Barcelona at the conference that we are missing because of the late move. Our senior colleague here, Carol, is ready, willing and more than able to cover this week, but I feel that if I am here I want to be in harness. After all, I'm here to minister, not to move house. Anyway. That's a little tussle that is quite common.
When will we be moving?
Well the British guy could do us on Saturday 28th. I think he's expensive, though I don't have much to guage it against except moving here from Britain - which was about 3000 pounds. He says about 1300 pounds for Villenave to Pessac. Maybe that is just what it costs.
Then Breton Removers are the only others I could find with a slot in October. They could move us next Tuesday 31st. They are coming today to give us a price.
Even before we get the price there are pros and cons to moving Saturday and Tuesday.
Moving Saturday we get no time to clean the house in Pessac, but we get Monday and Tuesday to clean this house to hand it back to the landlords.
Moving Tuesday we get no time to clean this house - we'll have to clean behind the removers, but we get all weekend to clean the Pessac house ready to move in.
Ministry wise, I could still function normally on the Saturday (English class, PowerPoint in the evening) whereas if we move on Saturday then we are scuppered for PowerPoint for church. Of course, the PowerPoint is not that crucial. We were away in the summer and they used OHP instead.
Anyway, we shall see. Once we move we will be entering internet and telephone silence again until FREE can connect us up. They quote about a fortnight. (Oh yeah?) Only our mobile phones will work.
1) sign on the house (5:30 Friday!)
2) pack as much and as best we can
3) inform all the utilities (phone, water, gas, electricity, internet) and the insurance
4) also continue as much as possible with the regular ministry
I'd really like to cover for Fiona at the centre as much as I can - she's at Barcelona at the conference that we are missing because of the late move. Our senior colleague here, Carol, is ready, willing and more than able to cover this week, but I feel that if I am here I want to be in harness. After all, I'm here to minister, not to move house. Anyway. That's a little tussle that is quite common.
When will we be moving?
Well the British guy could do us on Saturday 28th. I think he's expensive, though I don't have much to guage it against except moving here from Britain - which was about 3000 pounds. He says about 1300 pounds for Villenave to Pessac. Maybe that is just what it costs.
Then Breton Removers are the only others I could find with a slot in October. They could move us next Tuesday 31st. They are coming today to give us a price.
Even before we get the price there are pros and cons to moving Saturday and Tuesday.
Moving Saturday we get no time to clean the house in Pessac, but we get Monday and Tuesday to clean this house to hand it back to the landlords.
Moving Tuesday we get no time to clean this house - we'll have to clean behind the removers, but we get all weekend to clean the Pessac house ready to move in.
Ministry wise, I could still function normally on the Saturday (English class, PowerPoint in the evening) whereas if we move on Saturday then we are scuppered for PowerPoint for church. Of course, the PowerPoint is not that crucial. We were away in the summer and they used OHP instead.
Anyway, we shall see. Once we move we will be entering internet and telephone silence again until FREE can connect us up. They quote about a fortnight. (Oh yeah?) Only our mobile phones will work.
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