House move blues

I really bit off more than i can chew this week, i have had a book launch programmed for five weeks or so and then a house came up, we have wanted to move for almost two years. Which one do you do first or as i did try doing both together, and at the same time i'm trying to create a new business on WA.

Here's how not to do it, i rang the housing council and told them we would be moving in

about three weeks, "Oh no" they said, "If you want to put in your notice you have to move out that day, then you get your notice after,"

"This isn't how i thought local council's did it," so we had to agree.

Then we started the mountain of phone calls to tell everyone we're moving, electric, gas, phone, post office, On and on and on the list goes, have you all done this before, stop me if i bore you?

The first thing i didn't need was the phone to be cut of a day earlier than we had agreed and broadband, so no phone or net i had no contact with anyone to arrange the move or with any contacts in business or the red tape this mess brought about.

To add insult to injury i am waiting for a physical proof copy to arrive from create space before i can actually launch, i needed to proof and return before the book can be made available for sale.

So on the day of the move we had still not packed everything as we were still living in the apartment, things like carpets, curtains, tv hifi,and some every day essentials were still to be packed, The movers turned up at bang on 7.30 ready and rearing to move, Oh by the way did i mention we are both disabled, mornings with us are a bad time anyway, In they strolled "Ok what do we take first?," The man asked.

They could move through that house faster than a plague of locust, my wife was panicking about her ornaments and taking things that she wanted to go in our car, they never heard her calls and stripped everything they could put their hands on, we had an empty apartment by 9.15 with no idea where anything was to go at the other end and still no book proof, which finally turned up on the Monday morning, just 5 days before the launch, Needless to say that has had to be rescheduled and our new house is still a mass of half empty boxes, strangely it's kind of like our first place before we had any furniture at all. Very homely