Moving right along...

"Whelp, it appears that I will be moving out of the cottage fairly shortly. Sadly it is not because Velvet bought a house. He's still trying to do so but the process has bogged down, he has had an offer in on his dream house but the owner is in no hurry to get back to anyone about the house.
So instead I'll be renting [C]'s spare room for the next month or so. If Velvet hasn't managed to get stuff moving forward on the house I'll prolly go looking for a place of my own in the new year.

now I just have to clean the whole cottage from top to bottom, clear out all the crap I've moved there and shut the place down for th winter before moving a smaller batch of crap into [C]'s spare bedroom."