Moving House
Jul. 5th, 2010 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_ernieHello. I hope everyone's alright and having a good summer.
We had an owl from the Ministry last week. It said that because there'll be five of us kids in the family once the babies are born, we qualify for a new, bigger house under this Ministry programme. I think it's because we need more space, and there's loads of empty houses everywhere now, since the muggles don't need them anymore.
The owl had a list in it of houses that are available. They're all over the country, so Mum and Dad talked a bit about moving somewhere else, like up to the north or out to the west, but we all agreed that we'd rather stay here in Kent because that's where we've always been for years and years.
We don't get to move in until the babies are born, of course, in case anything goes wrong. Dad says it'll all be fine, because the healers have magic and know exactly what they're doing, but I know how it is really with that sort of thing. Sometimes the healers do their best and things still go wrong. So the Ministry can't sign the house over to us until they know for sure that the babies are okay and healthy. But we're starting to get things ready - Mum's writing lists of what stuff needs to be moved and when it can be put into boxes, and Dad keeps asking us what kind of garden we want and how big we want our bedrooms to be.
We're going to have a look at some of the houses this week, and then we have to send an owl back to the Ministry to let them know which ones we like. Then they'll decide which one we can have, and they'll reserve it for us until we can have it. The babies are due in early September, so if they're on time I'll already be back at school and won't get to help with the move! And neither will Pip! But they might come early, because there's two of them, so if we move in August we can help.
So that's good.
Wayne, Bobby - I'll see you on Wednesday, yeah?
We had an owl from the Ministry last week. It said that because there'll be five of us kids in the family once the babies are born, we qualify for a new, bigger house under this Ministry programme. I think it's because we need more space, and there's loads of empty houses everywhere now, since the muggles don't need them anymore.
The owl had a list in it of houses that are available. They're all over the country, so Mum and Dad talked a bit about moving somewhere else, like up to the north or out to the west, but we all agreed that we'd rather stay here in Kent because that's where we've always been for years and years.
We don't get to move in until the babies are born, of course, in case anything goes wrong. Dad says it'll all be fine, because the healers have magic and know exactly what they're doing, but I know how it is really with that sort of thing. Sometimes the healers do their best and things still go wrong. So the Ministry can't sign the house over to us until they know for sure that the babies are okay and healthy. But we're starting to get things ready - Mum's writing lists of what stuff needs to be moved and when it can be put into boxes, and Dad keeps asking us what kind of garden we want and how big we want our bedrooms to be.
We're going to have a look at some of the houses this week, and then we have to send an owl back to the Ministry to let them know which ones we like. Then they'll decide which one we can have, and they'll reserve it for us until we can have it. The babies are due in early September, so if they're on time I'll already be back at school and won't get to help with the move! And neither will Pip! But they might come early, because there's two of them, so if we move in August we can help.
So that's good.
Wayne, Bobby - I'll see you on Wednesday, yeah?
