Penny, that is so good to hear from you – welcome to the exhausted-but-pleased downsizers club! I have been wondering how you were getting on and it sounds rather better than us. We still have unpacked cardboard boxes, with nowhere to empty them. A much needed new kitchen cupboard comes tomorrow, so more temporary chaos, then very much more chaos when we have builders in to create a downstairs loo and more storage space in the small barn (shed) next door to the kitchen.
Hope your back and bones feel restored, it took me several months, looking back. Hope also your hat supply is not too dimished.
Good luck, and look forward to hearing more about your new life!

Anyway, we’re here and despite the physical trauma it has so obviously been the right thing to do. We’re going to be very happy here. But I totally support your point that down-sizing can only be done when you’re fit and well.

That was quick, Marilyn, and how lovely to hear from you. We are loving having fewer responsibilities and more time. We wouldn’t have moved yet had we not had Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns to think about but it was lucky for us that we did. We wanted to sell them while they were still doing wonderfully well. It would have been a dreadful worry if one of us has had suddenly hit health problems while we were still busy with them. But don’t forget, you are much younger than us. Moving is exhausting, you really do need to be feeling strong!