May is the month for moving

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I haven’t blogged for a few days because we’ve been busy arrang­ing our big move to our new premises, and some things are falling into place, although, as with all moves, it’s still a lit­tle stressful.

Look­ing for new premises has had its inter­est­ing moments though. There was one land­lord who showed us an apart­ment, and when we asked about a strange look­ing area behind the kitchen, he said, “oh, that can be the maid’s room. You can put a fridge to block this open­ing so the maid can have some privacy”.

If we had taken the place and if we did have a maid, that would mean we’d have to make sure we never look around the sides of the fridge lest we invade the maid’s pri­vacy and “out­rage her mod­esty”, as we say in these parts.

There were also other apart­ments we viewed that looked (and smelled) like they’d never seen day­light, and would never see day­light given the types of rental the land­lords were ask­ing for.

But despite all that, we’ve been very blessed to have had a really nice land­lord who would’ve let us stay for the same rent if she could. And there are not many land­lords send food over (with serv­ing instruc­tions) when they’ve just arrived from overseas.