Hi H,
2007 is a year of great change for us all. For you an exciting new School, new friends, new teachers and lots more I guess. For me it is also a new start. I have moved! this week i moved house. Yes I have moved from the flat. The only sadness was having to leave behind our picture which is still there on the kitchen wall. ( I hope the new tenants don't paint over it) If they do they cannot take away how precious that it was to have with you way back in August 2005 before you left for Jersey.
My new house is an old church..... well just the tower of an old church and as such it is called The Tower. It is all on its own in open country by a beautiful river. The river is 100 metres away over a level crossing. by the river there is an old stone bench where i sit each evening and watch the swans with their cygnets. there are 6 cygnets and two are always on one of the parents back. I think it is the Pen (mum) as the Cob (dad) is always swimming around guarding and hissing if i come too near.
The house is lovely and I fell for it as soon as I walked inside the first time. It was converted badly to a house in 1990 and needs a lot of work to make it really nice. Something I am looking forward to spending my time doing.
The Tower is square and very tall. It has a beautiful view out of the windows at the top across the valley to the Purbeck Hills beyond. I am about 10 minutes from the sea which is just over the hills to the south. I cycled down to the sea this weekend and looked out and tried to imagine what you might be doing in Jersey and how you were.
I have a garden which is shared with the two other properties that make up the whole church which has been split into three. When i say garden, imagine a churchyard with gravestones and daffodils and trees. This morning I watched baby rabbits eating grass just outside the window, a squirrel in the tree. There are also lots of lovely birds. So far I have seen wrens, robins, goldfinches, and long tail tits. The swallows have arrived too and are busy making their nests.
I am hoping one day you will be able to visit.
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