The to do list is shrinking and the anticipation is growing

out When you set out a mega travel plan there are a lot of lists and in our case the 'what we need to do with the house 'one was more of a challenge. Well, we have successfully secured a tenant to pay the bills while we are away and we have cleared loft, garage and emotional baggage that has been tucked away in various nooks and cranies about the house. I moved my brothers ashes to the loft so he is safe and can't wait to respond to the next "so what happened to your brother" ...."oh, he passed away and he is now - me pointing upwards - safe and secure".

So today, I have been cancelling all the bills and sorting insurance and updating the council and answering calls to the advert for our car, which has not yet sold, so might need to go to storage. 

​However, as you progress through the list you come to realise that time is running out and the list is shrinking, which is clearly the point but the anticipation of what you have embarked upon grows. This can have different effects, it can be excitement or it can be a kind of edgy foreboding twitchy restlessness that can tip over into snarling and snappiness. Whats the remedy....bring on the 24th June for f**ksake!