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Well she didn't choose my house. I was a bit sad but I was happy at least that I knew the state of play before the weekend rolled in. The agent said that it was nothing negative about my house - it was just that the other house was slightly nearer to the university than mine.
I'm forgetting it for now. Patrick is flying over first thing in the morning and then we are getting a train into mid-Wales to spend the weekend with my parents. I'm more nervous than he is! I am looking forward to seeing their new flat, it is across the road from the beach and if we get some decent weather then it will be perfect.
The person who came to see the house on Saturday asked to view the place again on Tuesday which created a flurry of excitement - well I was excited anyway. :) They wanted to see my house and one other which is a bit cheaper and has a larger garden but is not as well appointed within. The agent told me to keep my mobile switched on all day and with me wherever I went as she'd be back with a decision. I was insanely busy at work as usual which was good as it meant I didn't have to spend the whole day shouting, "ring damn you, ring!" at my mobile. By four o'clock there was no call so I phoned the agent up - no news sadly. The person who came to view the house has yet to make up their mind.
I did almost nothing yesterday but doze and it was lovely! No guilt just some walks with Fintan and a bit of cleaning before a viewer came to see the house and then sofa time in the evening - divine!
Finally we are getting weather that suggests that summer may not be so far away after all. It's a lovely day here today - just been out with Fintan and we walked for over an hour along the Woodgate Valley walk taking in the birdsong, the spring flowers (even the naughty Spanish bluebells!) and the gentle sussuration (always wanted to use that word!) between the trees and the river.
I took some pictures on my camera phone as I don't imagine that I am going to see another spring in this valley again and I'd like to keep some images of it. I have been walking this area for at least the last five years or so and I know it well but it is still nice to have something to look at to remind me. I think it is a part of getting older that you start to notice the simple beauty in a green space, birdsong, blossom on a tree etc. I know that when I lived in London for all those years in my twenties I never really noticed nor cared about such things beyond the standard, "this is nice" when walking in the park. Living on the edge of the city you get a greater feeling of the connection with nature and an awareness of the passing of the seasons, such as they are in these days of global warming. I certainly look forward to seeing the first buds on the trees in the late winter / early spring and then the blossoming of the blackberries and apples as autumn approaches. Sometimes I think I'd like to be an oak tree in the valley and live longer than the life span we humans are allotted though I fear it might be a lonely life.
As much as I want to leave and start a new life somewhere else I have to acknowledge that I live in a beautiful part of a fairly ugly city! Patrick knows that I am committed to moving to Belfast and starting up over there so I feel I can get away with waxing lyrical about the life I am set to leave behind without him worrying that I might be having second thoughts.
Today was the day I have been looking forward to and yet dreading. It was my exam day for my reflexology course. I had to do a practical, present my case studies (forty treatments in all) followed by a written reflexology exam and then a written business standards paper. I know it went okay despite my nerves as we were all told that we had passed the practical before we left so I just need to wait and see how the written papers go.
I was told by my tutor that the examiner said my performance was "superb" and that I am in the top two. All that could change of course if I trip up on the other papers.
I've had a very tiring week all in all - the last two weekends I have been in Belfast with Patrick and then it was back to the scary world of trying to educate the long term unemployed! I have someone coming to see the house Saturday early afternoon but after that I am putting my feet up for the rest of the weekend.
