There’s a whole lot of January going on at the moment. It is very cold, there’s not a lot going on, we’re in the middle of economic despair, the nights are still way too long and there is a creeping lethargy eating into my days. Oh, and I, like a large proportion of the population, have a lingering cough. So basically there’s not a lot of fun going down at the moment. The heating system which has toddled along perfectly ok for 12 years is falling apart. The old boiler wheezed and choked its way through all the last decade of milder than seasonal winters patiently waiting until we have a long drawn out cold snap to inflict its demise on us. We’ve had our money’s worth out of it, it has barely cost us a penny since we moved in but it is time to upgrade. We plan to have a new boiler, system, and radiators, a real big job in fact, major upheaval – in April. The wee girlie will be complaining bitterly all the way through the next couple of months so in addition to it being cold we have to contend with the daily tirade from herself as well. Roll on Spring………please.
In the process of discussing with our heating engineer what we want to do the subject came up of moving house. How long do we plan to stay here? Hubby looks at me quizzically or perhaps hopefully. I said I didn’t think we were planning on moving at the moment. As he has just embarked on this process of training for ordination, and the training will probably start in the autumn at the same time as the wee girlie goes off to uni, I really don’t see that moving is going to be a sensible option for some time – this is aside from the fact that the housing market is currently pretty crap anyway. As he is being trained through his parish he will be obligated to the church for a while even when he has finished his training so we are looking at a minimum of another five years in situ. So why do we want to move house! All that upheaval and stress. We’ve just had a lovely new kitchen, new windows and re-decorated. I feel like pointing out that although the next few years will be quite new and exciting for the two of them it will just be more of the same old same old for me. That’s not to say that I haven’t considered a change!
I regularly take stock but I have found that it is sometimes easier in life to alter your attitude and re-learn to appreciate what is here and now rather than hunt for the greener grass on the other side of the fence. It isn’t any greener; it is only your perception of it that makes it appear so.
