This is a first for me; pensitivity101 often pops up on mjy feed and whilst I try to read stuff, invariable life gets in the way as it so often does, but thought i’d have a crack at the Three Things Challenge where the idea is to create a little something using 3 things, these 3 things in this particular instance are:

CRISIS…DANGER…PERIL… and it needs to be family friendly, christ what to say…

 

After, many months and years of pestering my Mum and Dad and then suddenly 2 1?2 years ago just my Mum to move house to somewhere less impractical, with less mould, less draughts and considerably warmer, Mum finally took the sensibility balm and decided it would be a good plan to move house. To a house in my village, to the house next door to me to avoid the dangers of steep staircases, uneven patios and questionable electrics. This Damascene revelation occurred about a week before we came to Turkey and so it was a mad rush to get the estate agent (an old family friend) over to sort everything out, photos and the like, questionnaires to fill out and long phone calls to make to ask how to fill out the questionnaires, and all to prevent a crisis move, the type of move that will hopefully get her over to Clifton in time to enjoy the twilight years in a modern warm house with her son and daughter in law, grandson and grand daughter able to pop through the hedge into her garden when she forgets how to turn the oven on or loses the remote control.

Thing is the house next door is on the market and is the same size as ours and is totally impractical, she doesn’t need 4 en suite bedrooms or a massive garden, but she wants to move and live next door to us to hopefully avoid the perils of the death trap Georgian building she calls home in Bruntingthorpe, so if anyone has a spare few quid knocking about please buy her house and I’m sure she’d be happy to make you a brew in her new home in Clifton, but expect me to have to bob over to turn the kettle on!

Just hope the house is still for sale when I get back in a couple of weeks time, she’s threatening not to move if she can’t live next to me, and then sadly we will be back to square 1 and waiting for the Crisis to happen all over again. And whilst I’ll ask you to be patient with me when I say “I told you so” Dad did fall down the stairs as prophecised by yours truly, and that was what set him on his road to being an Ex-Dad.

I told him so…