On 13 May, 21:33, "Baal" wrote:
I hate to raise your hopes by seeing a reply to your post but I just wanted
to say good luck!

Your house and gardens are gorgeous and to move must be heart-wrenching,
despite the joys of your grand-children. My mother is bed-bound following a
stroke 8 years ago (dad being a full-time carer now) and my wife's parents
have both died recentley. Fortunately, we were close as a family and have
many happy memories. Being together is the right thing to do and despite
leaving such a beautiful home, you are making the right decision.

Enjoy your future and enjoy building a grand-children friendly Narnia garden
for them!

God Bless! Manchester................enjoy the rain too! ;-)

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Baal

I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

Hello Baal,

Thanks for your good wishes. We have both reached (very nearly)
retirement age and have two grandsons, five and two, who live in
Chorlton. As you rightly say it is a great wrench to leave North
Lincolnshire and the garden we have created. We have lived in the same
bungalow for the nearly forty years of our married life, but had the
choice to stay here for the rest of our lives, or to move while we
were young enough. We have found a very nice house on the outskirts
of Partington in southwest Manchester. The soil is very light in
comparison to our heavy clay here, and seems to grow azaleas so we are
looking forward to growing acid loving plants which just go yellow
here. This small area of North Lincolnshire shares the distinction
with part of North Norfolk of being the driest in the country, no
doubt we can expect more rain in Manchester.

I don't know about a Narnia garden, at the moment a football pitch
seems to be the requirement.

Being part of a family means sharing the bad times as well as the
good, and I am sure your father very much apreciates you being
close.

Thanks again for your good wishes,

Chris Potts