So long, and thanks for all the...lolz?

Byeeee house, byeee room!

So I’ve made the move home from Gloucestershire back to Lancashire! Of course I had left everything to the last minute on the day mum came down to collect me and my mountains of stuff (my mountain of stuff and I?). My room was a mess, a very small bundle set aside for the charity shop, I was slightly hungover from drinks the night before and was sleeping next to all my clothes that had been yanked out of the wardrobe. I woke up at 9am, text mum and asked if she could text me with her estimated time of arrival so I could have time to have a scout around and make sure it was all mum-safe. I was expecting around 12pm, then I received a very relaxed text saying yep, I’ll be there in half an hour!

WHAT?!

What time did she wake up?!?! I live 3 hours away! All systems go, jump out of bed and get ready and there she is at the door, cleaning products in arm. And gosh darn she’s good at what she does. 

Welcome, Ma!
We packed up the room, drove to the charity shops and dropped off a roomful of things, stopped at the tip and threw away some non-cherished items (never one to miss a learning opportunity, she made me do a lap to see the amount of things that are thrown away and destined for the landfill and let me tell you: it’s pretty fricken bad. All those crappy plastic storage things I’d bought to hoard all my things away in, I never want to buy plastic again!). She had a walk around the park whilst I said some poignant goodbyes, we went into town and sold my Xbox (£20 which was fine, but Alan Wake sold for 60p, 60 PENCE! It’s such a good game!), popped into Specsavers to move my subscription to up north (leaving it till the last 3 hours, well done Jess). 

Then back home, we had some tea, moved everything out to the car, borrowed some allen keys from some friendly neighbourhood motorcyclists, deep cleaned the room and we were done! Woke up the housemates from a nap to say goodbye (I know, ruthless) and off we drove into the sunset. 


Thanks Ma, for your 12 hour+ day spent moving your favourite daughter back to the homestead!