Well that’s another weekend over (our weekend starts Friday and we go back to work Sunday) and we made a big decision. It looks like we are on the move again, no, not from Bahrain but to a different house here.
Nothing unusual there, you might be thinking, and you would be right. People move all the time. I have moved many times, usually
through work, but sometimes by choice. What is remarkable about this move is the location of the house.
through work, but sometimes by choice. What is remarkable about this move is the location of the house.
We had been looking for somewhere closer to the town and where my wife works. Somewhere we didn’t have to draw maps for the taxi driver to find us, somewhere where we could walk to the shops (well, my wife can walk; walking to the car is enough exercise for me). So did we find all of these in this house? No.
This house is two miles further from the nearest shops than our old one; it is two miles further from her work, (and mine if it comes to that). We will have to give taxi drivers gps co-ordinates or a grid reference to find it, never mind a map. It is nowhere near where we want to be.
So what happened? Some of you may have experienced this, some of you may have never moved, I don’t know. What happened to both of us is that we went along to a house that an agent wanted to show us. Neither of us thought it would be suitable because of its location, and it was to be the first of several houses we were to look at. The drive to it was like following directions in Hampton Court maze, but eventually we arrived and were immediately struck by the look of the compound. (Now for you chemists we are not talking about a combination of chemicals here, and for those of you thinking barbed wire and watch towers, it isn’t like that either. The first thing to note was the gardens with flowers and grass, a rare commodity in a country that is hot and dry (most of the time). Not only were there gardens but they were immaculately kept, and the beauty of that is the tenants don’t tend to them, there is a gardener, as part of the rent.
Then we stepped inside. There was nothing outstanding, no amazing features, but something about the house said to both of us, ‘this is home.’ For one to get that feeling when you walk into a place is good, but for both to get it straight away is a rare occurrence, and that is before we had seen the swimming pool. Okay, by swimming 
pool standards it is pretty small, more of an extra-large bath tub. I certainly won’t be practising my Olympic swimming in there (I am in excellent shape by the way – round), but I can see us sitting around it in the evening, with a glass or two of something nice.
pool standards it is pretty small, more of an extra-large bath tub. I certainly won’t be practising my Olympic swimming in there (I am in excellent shape by the way – round), but I can see us sitting around it in the evening, with a glass or two of something nice.
So all we have to do now is wait and see if the owner wants us as tenants, and no one else has got there before us. Fingers crossed.
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