It’s all happening…

The whole change of lifestyle and moving onto the boat thing is moving quite rapidly now.  I thought selling my business would be the hard part, but I found the perfect person with no advertising needed, just by having a lucky conversation with a new customer.

I tentatively and nervously set up my business as a dog walker & pet sitter 4½ years ago after being made redundant from my previous job and it quickly became a relatively successful full-time job which I am quite proud of.  I absolutely loved it even though it was a very physically demanding job and an ‘out all day in all weathers’ type of job which I really didn’t mind, (most of the time) and for most weeks, a seven day a week job too, but after the decision was made to sell up and move onto the boat, I had to let the business go.  I was over the moon when I found a wonderful lady who was perfectly matched and excited to take on my business because I really didn’t want the previous 4½ years and the success of the business to have just ended, so yes, first stage of our big plan… ➣ Sell the business ✓

Ironically, on the same day as I completed the sale of my business, along came a couple to view the house, loved it, came again for a second viewing and made an offer!   O.k, as Jon keeps reminding me, I can’t ‘Whoop Whoop, punch the air and do a merry jig’ yet as there’s a long way to go with a house sale and things can always go wrong, so just hold onto your hats with this second stage, although I can’t help doing a tiny, whispered Whoop Whoop’ though Shhhhh 😉

If the house sale does go to plan, we have probably a couple of months to get sorted… the boat isn’t totally ready and we have a 3 bedroom house with garage and shed contents to fit into the boat – ok well, storage to sort out and alot of the ruthless throwing things out, giving to charity shops and the use of that well known auction site.  It’s all Go and becoming real now – It’s all happening…

With selling the business, the main thing I am concerned about is keeping fit.  Dog walking all day most days kept me quite fit and as my ‘Fitbit’ was always telling me, 20’000 steps per day was my average, so I am very keen on keeping this going, although I may change my fitness regime slightly.  I will keep dog walking as I still have my two dogs to exercise as well as myself and we’ll still be mountain biking, but I do fancy Yoga or Pilates too.  We’ll see how things develop on that score.

In the meantime it’s piles of packing boxes for us…

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