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Spent the whole day from 8:30am to 6pm moving out stuff, furniture for my 86 yo stepgrandad who just sold his home.

We took lunch at a cheap, decent little restaurant overlooking a river.

Then had to drive to the camping where he intends to live his last years, basically he’s too old to take care of home chores anymore, the camping ain’t too bad, the owners are a fairly nice couple, they deliver a baguette every morning to everyone in the camping, have a bar and occasionally prepare roasted chicken and Fries.

The good thing is also a small pond inside the establishment where every camper can fish trouts.

ETA: he’s going to live in a small but good enough Mobil-home.
 
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Jake84 said:
Spent the whole day from 8:30am to 6pm moving out stuff, furniture for my 86 yo stepgrandad who just sold his home.

We took lunch at a cheap, decent little restaurant overlooking a river.

Then had to drive to the camping where he intends to live his last years, basically he’s too hold to take care of home chores anymore, the camping ain’t too bad, the owners are a fairly nice couple, they deliver a baguette every morning to everyone in the camping, have a bar and occasionally prepare roasted chicken and Fries.

The good thing is also a small pond inside the establishment where every camper can fish trouts.

ETA: he’s going to live in a small but good enough Mobil-home.
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Moved my GGParents [mid 90's] into a small apartment in my old renovated hunting lodge home. We love having them around, the kids talk to them for hours. They do chores when they want to, cook, chop firewood, sail, hunt, run the tractor, feed the animals & visit friends & family when they feel like it. Even I've enjoyed hearing the stories about the Danish Resistance Fighters during WW2 over & over again. I think short term memory is the 1st to go. Their Docs tell me there is no reason they shouldn't live well into their 100's. He still gives me advice on how to pick up women, especially French women, pretty sure he was a player in his prime.
 
Jake84 said:
Spent the whole day from 8:30am to 6pm moving out stuff, furniture for my 86 yo stepgrandad who just sold his home.

We took lunch at a cheap, decent little restaurant overlooking a river.

Then had to drive to the camping where he intends to live his last years, basically he’s too hold to take care of home chores anymore, the camping ain’t too bad, the owners are a fairly nice couple, they deliver a baguette every morning to everyone in the camping, have a bar and occasionally prepare roasted chicken and Fries.

The good thing is also a small pond inside the establishment where every camper can fish trouts.

ETA: he’s going to live in a small but good enough Mobil-home.
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I can think of worse places to be...
 
Got a delivery due Friday of the three glasshouses I ordered and paid for in February/March - so now I panic

As normal, I am not ready to receive the delivery so spent all day today clearing out one of the poly tunnels which has a concrete floor to take all the frames and associated boxes

The glass packs - will have to go in the alpine house that is on what will be the sales area as that is closest to the road
Just don't fancy moving that amount of glass - and I hope it stays dry tomorrow as there are a load of fencing posts need moving out of the way
If I can get it all in there, then I can ferry it up onto the main building area at my leisure

Thursday looks a complete wash out

Just hoping Friday stays dry for a couple of hours while we get everything unloaded - will be glad when it's all here and undercover
 
Good thing we’re are much more tolerant as a community here, @colin traveller.

I much prefer and in fact have chosen forums instead of FB and the likes for discussing anything that revolves around current events or politics. Unless one go berserk here and has to get the banhammer, FB « community standards » just are biased, malicious and off-putting. No wonder many Americans and others are at odd with it because the 1st A. or freedom of speech there is a joke.

Having say that, I’d rather be a bin man in Las Vegas or New Delhi than a « FB moderator ».
 
I find it insulting when someone gets paid more than me ... and yet still can't get himself ready never mind organised for service ..

He should have had the garnish done for the fishcakes yesterday but as always he doesn't bother tonight he's caught out bigtime ..
 
D-Day arrived - I was only just in time ready

It took us two hours to unload the lorry - so 3 1/2 tons of glass is now stacked floor to ceiling in the top alpine house (might be a bit more weight as its 4mm)

The 12 big boxes of frame parts are now stacked in one of the poly tunnels

I am absolutely knackered - a mixture of stress and anticipation

Got one very large Meccano set for next year - but it will put another 1,000+ sq feet under glass

Got a bit of a billy bonus - I ordered 3mm Horticultural glass - they have delivered 4mm Toughened - that's an expensive mistake on their part - about a £2,000 mistake in my favour.

I had spoken to the lady at the firm in February and asked her if she could stick me a couple of extra packs of 2' x 2' glass in due to the cost of the order and a pack is normally 4 sheets - there were 30 extra of them as well - which is about another £180-£200

It's been a win - win - win day - and the sun came out, and it did not rain whilst we were moving all the stuff

Gave the driver £50 as he did a sterling job
 
FLYNAVY said:
Moved my GGParents [mid 90's] into a small apartment in my old renovated hunting lodge home. We love having them around, the kids talk to them for hours. They do chores when they want to, cook, chop firewood, sail, hunt, run the tractor, feed the animals & visit friends & family when they feel like it. Even I've enjoyed hearing the stories about the Danish Resistance Fighters during WW2 over & over again. I think short term memory is the 1st to go. Their Docs tell me there is no reason they shouldn't live well into their 100's. He still gives me advice on how to pick up women, especially French women, pretty sure he was a player in his prime.
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Stepgrandad sold “his” little home for about 110,000€ which is absolutely cheap to the UK or danish standards, but it was located in a wasteland of a village with not even a grocery or bakery around so it’s no wonder.

I put his home in quote because my mother and uncle are naturally getting half of it, deducted from the notary’s fees, stepgrandad is getting about 50k and both my mother and uncle roughly 25k…

We did a great job helping him move out many many stuff and we barely had a “thank you”, not to mention driving to the camping and yet again helping him understand everything with the owners. Gah. Genuine compliments never hurt and people, even “family” tend to be greedy about that anyway.

I wish him luck in the Mobil-home, as northern France gets quite chilly and wet in the winter, but that’s not much our concern anymore.
 
Jake84 said:
Stepgrandad sold “his” little home for about 110,000€ which is absolutely cheap to the UK or danish standards, but it was located in a wasteland of a village with not even a grocery or bakery around so it’s no wonder.

I put his home in quote because my mother and uncle are naturally getting half of it, deducted from the notary’s fees, stepgrandad is getting about 50k and both my mother and uncle roughly 25k…

We did a great job helping him move out many many stuff and we barely had a “thank you”, not to mention driving to the camping and yet again helping him understand everything with the owners. Gah. Genuine compliments never hurt and people, even “family” tend to be greedy about that anyway.

I wish him luck in the Mobil-home, as northern France gets quite chilly and wet in the winter, but that’s not much our concern anymore.
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The GGParents did something fairly smart with their holdings & money to avoid estate taxes. They're allowed to "gift" living trusts to all their kids, grandkids & great grandkids. They asked if I wanted them to boost our share for living expenses & won't hear of it. Besides, my GGMa makes the best she crab soup, bread, sugar cookies & fried shrimp in the Province. GGPa keeps us in fire wood & has a fetish for detailing all my cars & trucks. They're both uber healthy & smart as whips. They stay busy, love a good helicopter or C-130 ride & have a shot or 2 of whisky at evening meal. My Dad's parents are starting to hint around that they're ready to give up their huge house in the next village over so guess we need to start up grading some more rooms to convert into an apartment for them, haha.
 

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My day just got a 9/10 on the weirdness scale. Everyone was told to stay home from work today and work from home. I thought that it was because I popped positive for Covid and so they were having to sterilize the office. (I will note here that between my last day at the office and my positive diagnosis I did have a negative test and had no symptoms so I wasn't in the office while sick.) No, that wasn't the reason at all. It turns out that they terminated someone yesterday and that individual made threats to the individuals who work at the office. The boss has gone to ground for the next several weeks and is working from home. Rumor is that the individual involved has gang affiliation as well.
 
Finished a 45 day rotation deployment & home on leave for a few weeks. Spent about 5 hours today trying to reconcile my cash box expenses. Command xcepts hand written receipts for cash bribes with a team witnesses @ checkpoints thankfully & have hard receipts for most everything else on fuel purchases & supplies but still over about $25K in my favor. Will have to go in to post tomorrow & sit down with accounts & see if they can figure it out & just turn in the xtra cash.......or maybe it'll be a good Christmas for my team mates, haha. Have a mandatory mental health check to get thru as well. They are always fun.
 
Yeah, we have been pounded with heavy rain and gusts for the past 24 hours here too. It was supposed to be a devastating storm which turned out to be just quite wet, nothing too worry too much about.
 
We have the Israeli team stayin in the Hotel .. this week .. and the Chef for the team with some other guy .. didn't even make themselves known to me .... But was told by my boss if they appear to tell them to leave .. but the big guy built like tank , he had that been in a few wars look about .. him ... Wanting to check his stuff for the players ..

So am im left in a situation whereby if i said them they had to leave etc . It could come back on me in which i could lose my job . if what was brought out to defrost wasn't he wanted .. then he would complain and things go Custerfk ..

He never even said to me what his name was ....nor did the other chap
 
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