Closing a chapter

Knowing when it's time to move on

Changes are afoot. And I’m not just talking about the weather (two blissful days of sunshine, now washed away and blotted out by cold rain and brooding skies).

There was a tentative knock on the front door one afternoon last week: the next door neighbours from one side, telling us they were moving. Their house is up for sale and they’re buying one across the road, literally yards away. It’s bigger - five bedrooms - and theirs is a larger family than ours.