Coming up for air

Wowee!  That turned out to be a much longer break than I thought.  Hello everybody!  Happy New Year!  I've missed everyone.  I got a lovely email from a reader today (hello Kathy) asking how life was in the House of NKK and it finally gave me the push I needed to get back at it.

Where, oh where, to start?  I haven't even looked at my blog in the last two months, so logging in today and seeing 5th Avenue in the late Autumn light from my last post made me realise again what a long, long way Mr. P and I have come since last I wrote.  So much to catch up on.  And I promise I will come soon to the voyage home and the House by the Sea and our new adventure.  But I've just looked back at some of the photos and instead I wondered if you'd like a tour of our old apartment before it was all packed up?  (If you're anything like me, there's nothing quite like a nose around someone's house.)

Okay, so we had an open plan living/dining kitchen area which, even now that I see it again, I can't quite believe we lived in (those views!).

 At the other end of the room was the dining area and kitchen.  And the chair I sat in to read or knit.

 We set up an office in the second bedroom with a comfy sofa bed (no, really, they do exist).

And the view from here was breathtaking...

... whatever the weather...

And back in November, the movers came and the whole place got packed up and sent ahead of us...

...until there was nothing left and it didn't feel like ours anymore.

And now all our things have arrived and we have rooms and rooms to put them in (relatively speaking).  We're still surrounded by boxes (we have discovered that we didn't factor in much storage when we did all the building work here).  But we are getting there slowly.  Much much more on that another day.

For now, it's just nice to be back in Blogland.  Looking forward to catching up on what you've all been doing.

 
 C.x