And I have?relocated to Western Massachusetts front?he Boston area.? New job, new house after a 8 mo sojourn in an apartment.? All my yarn is in one room in the basement!

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On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 8:26 PM Peter Jobson via <dillwynia=[email protected]> wrote:

I'll add to the moving stories.

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I'm leaving Alice Springs for a new job near Sydney.?

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Much has happened over a few years. Late last year I was made acting Chief Botanist for the NT,? and in Jyly it became permanent.? The downside was a pay scale drop - of about $10K but continued excessive expectations.? In June a job opportunity came up for the Sydney herbarium which has relocated from the harbour foreshore to the edge of the greater metropolis 50 mi SW.

The duties are 1/3rd of my current position and pays $20K more - so a gain, had I accepted the other job, of 30K.

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I start 19th September,? so madly working on the impossible botanical jobs here, cleaning the house, and reducing the unwanted and packing the rest.

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The move is easy, finding a rental that accepts a small dog, and is rural,? is the hard part. I think I have seen a place, but of course they don't like me being so far away. Aiming to get a friend to attend the open house on Thursday.?

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Petey

Ugh! Beryl. This stuff is always draining. While Port Macquarie is well serviced, your brother must be doing the difficult journey to Sydney for specialists.

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For Beryl - the job is at Mt Annan Botanic Gardens near Campbelltown and I'm planning on living between Picton and Bargo which is only 40 min drive down the Hume Fwy.

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To Jenny. Cyclone Peggy is a wiry hair Jack Russell.? Her colouring and coarse outer coat suggests she may have some corgi in her.

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Full of beans, naughty, and very affectionate. She often comes to the office and lives in a large wire cage which she is comfortable with.?

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PT

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I still divide my time between Geneva and the UK, it's easier now the covid restrictions have gone. DH and I? lost three of our four parents in the 10 weeks between mid October 2021 and early January 2022. Sorely missed but it ended two super stressful years of perpetual health crises requiring me to drop all and care for one of the four. We now have MIL settled well in a really nice residential home which is a help, but we still feel completely flattened by the whole experience.......I long to feel "alive" again!

Jenny?

On 8 Aug 2022 14:02, "Melisande R. Wolf via groups.io" <melisanderwolf@...> wrote:

Congratulations Mary!? Moving is daunting, but how exciting.

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I’ll let everyone know in another 10 months or so whether I think moving over the course of almost a year is *less* daunting or more because I closed on my house last Monday.?

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I’m going to be working on learning to live in the space, which is a good space for me, but it’s still less than half the size of the house I sold, and in figuring out how to be in two places effectively for the next year, since Arielle would like to be there as much as possible (it being a very short walk to the ocean) and yet it’s over an hour from where we are now and she needs to be here for school.?

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Because I don’t have enough going on between house, college search for Arielle, Ezra working on applying to grad school, and Baird working on finding a job, I got a puppy 2 weeks ago.? She is adorable and personable, but a lot of work, especially because my 3 year old dog is still afraid of her.

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I’m very excited because some friends I met through Ravelry are coming in a few weeks to help me clear out my storage unit, which means that I’m going to? be reunited with my stash and actually able to weave on floor looms again.? Provided I’m at the Shore and the puppy lets me, of course.?

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As you might imagine, not much knitting going on, but I do have a project sitting on my desk for conference calls, so there is some.

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Melisande

I'll add to the moving stories.

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I'm leaving Alice Springs for a new job near Sydney.?

?

Much has happened over a few years. Late last year I was made acting Chief Botanist for the NT,? and in Jyly it became permanent.? The downside was a pay scale drop - of about $10K but continued excessive expectations.? In June a job opportunity came up for the Sydney herbarium which has relocated from the harbour foreshore to the edge of the greater metropolis 50 mi SW.

The duties are 1/3rd of my current position and pays $20K more - so a gain, had I accepted the other job, of 30K.

?

I start 19th September,? so madly working on the impossible botanical jobs here, cleaning the house, and reducing the unwanted and packing the rest.

?

The move is easy, finding a rental that accepts a small dog, and is rural,? is the hard part. I think I have seen a place, but of course they don't like me being so far away. Aiming to get a friend to attend the open house on Thursday.?

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Petey