A month to go before we move. We have a place to stay in Stockholm, and we have a moving company, and we have flight tickets. That means the essentials have been taken care of. Now we’re ordering boxes and bubble wrap. A load of boxes should arrive in time for this weekend, so we can start packing things like books and DVDs and other stuff we don’t need day to day. Then we’ll start disassembling our bookshelves and wardrobes. All this should lead to lots of climbing opportunities for Ingrid.

We’re also cancelling all sorts of subscriptions and catalogues and memberships we won’t want to keep, and notifying the rest of our change of address. The aim is to get to the point where all essential mail should be coming to the new address without relying on Royal Mail’s mail forwarding (which they probably won’t do to a non-UK address anyway) and ask our neighbours to forward the rest.

We’re also loading up on things that will be hard or impossible to find in Sweden. Eric’s filling a (small) box with Sainsbury’s ginger snaps; I’m thinking of making a trip to GAP to buy tops for Ingrid in the next size up.