Empyting The Upstairs.

Reform work begins next Saturday, but this is Seiju's last weekend home. The problem is that we want to put a lot of stuff, like our beds and the kids futons, into the classroom for the duration but I am using it to teach for the whole of next week. Till 8:30pm Friday night, to be exact!

The building company said they would move the beds for us, as there is no way that I will be able to cope with them myself. The rest has to be gone over the next week and weekend.

Yoshi was great, shifting furniture with Seiju. They are evenly matched in height now, if not in strength and Yoshi did a man's job today. Harry started packing up books and toys in their room but was overcome with the dust that was billowing up from behind furniture, so had to give up and have a shower to recover. We were all sneezing our heads off - embarassing!!

We took a break in the middle of the day to go to the reform company, where they showed us the planning permission papers which will be submitted this week. I am amazed that work starting a week later can be applied for, but it seems to be normal here! We will have to have a few things added to the downstairs, such as electric fans in two outside walls, and handrails on the stairs, as they are now law since our house was built, and the whole house must conform to the new laws if new planning permission for anything is sought. That's OK with me. The man said they can do it all within the budget so the price won't go up.

We are storing most of the stuff in Seiju's parents' garage, but his music stuff is in the back of the living room, plus we have an extra sofa and two extra chairs in here so it's a bit crowded. I'm not really going to enjoy living like this for the next month. Bleh.

There are still A LOT of boxes for me to pack up and get over there but I can do that over the course of the week. All the really heavy stuff is out now except for the kids desks, which will go tomorrow. (Not that heavy but I can't get them down the stairs by myself.)

I'll take some pictures of the chaos at some point and post them so you can have a good laugh at our living situation!