Moving day (by Ruth 24/07)

Monday 24th of July – The day when Mark Plane is one day older. Happy Birthday Mark!!!

For Gav, Liz and Fiona this was the big day for them to move into their new house, 131 Hitchin Road. And for the whole it was permanent fixing here in Luton, a significant house for all of us. We were without Liz and Mark today who were both in Cambridge, Mark at a One day, and Liz packing her stuff from Portugal Place. Gav and Fiona went to town to sort out final administrative bits, and pick up the keys to the house, while John found sunglasses, Laura found razors, and I tried to find swimwear.... After having met back up with the others we all went up to house. The house is very clear, with not much furniture, cream walls, and lots of space. Fiona was most excited about having a double bed. After the grand tour, Fiona and I went back to Cambridge to pack up my car with all of Fiona’s things – which fitted in just about perfectly. Gav in this time had done two loads of moving things around from Coverdale to number 131, and when we got back the house was starting to look lived in. Liz was back, with her Dad, and all her things. After a load of food shopping there was more moving to be done, from cars up the steep stairs in the house... We also built a table, and some chairs, however, one table was broken......

The kitchen especially was starting to take shape, slowly getting filled with a collection of implements and appliances. Up until this point it was going to be a ready steady cook challenge – with all the food you wanted, but using only some tongs, a sieve, three forks and four ramikins. After sorting the kitchen and epic cooking by John and Gav, we sat down to eat all together round the big table late evening. It was good to be all together, but with slight moments of forgetting where we are – like that feeling when you wake up in your tent and can’t remember where it was you put your tent up, that you could unzip the door and be anywhere, you start thinking of the different places that you could be. When you walk out of the door of number 131, we are very much in Luton now, foundations down. City Life Church has a house – horray!!