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21 days 2 months and 2 weeks, but who’s counting?

Anyway, slight update on the situation…

Seems that just about everything that can be signed for will be getting signed next Thursday morning. That means that I should be able to take over the hotel around 2 weeks after that (ie the 11th of March). However, due to the practicalities of moving over I’ll be shooting for the 18th instead.

Picked up another volunteer driver: TM As always, he’s gone into the project in extreme detail and has calculated that it’ll take 2 1/2 days driving each way in France so we’ll actually need about 11 days to do a round-trip.

Friday last week, sense arrived at Credit Agricole and they decided that perhaps I wasn’t a money launderer after all and that they could after all give me the mortgage.

However, whilst they are up to date with the concept of money laundering, the invention of the postal system seems to have passed them by so I’ve to fly over to Estagel at the start of the week after next to sign assorted forms. High speed bank transfers don’t appear to have reached them either so it’ll be two or three weeks after that before I can sign for the hotel which is a bit of a pain but I suppose it gives us more time to organise the move.

Actually, I’m not sure that we can move in on the “signing day” or if there’ll be another week or two to go after that.

Anyway, we appear to be on our way and, if we don’t go off the rails again, should be there around St Patrick’s Day. So, that’ll be when you’ll all be able to claim the discount due on those cards which you should all have by now.

My last day in Rosepark will be Friday the 20th (unless we’re on strike, of course).

Arnold