It went well, all things considered. It came down to the wire with our mortgage offer ten days from expiry, and there were several times when we just knew it was going to fall through, we had to drop the price to keep things moving, and we really felt as though we were putting ourselves through too much to cope. I had intended to write about the process here just to share the misery, but as the weeks dragged into months I just couldn't raise the enthusiasm. And it's really no different from most people's experience, I expect, of moving house, albeit perhaps a little more drawn out than was really necessary.
But ultimately everything slid into place a little under a week ago, and after a truly forgettable few days of panic, I am lying on the sofa watching the snow melt and listening to the birds sing and the infant snore. No traffic noise. No drunken midnight shouting. No neighbour tuning engines at all hours.
Our lives can now carry on, only New & Improved, and we are already smiling more, and at each other. Our eldest danced around her new room singing about how happy she was, so it was all worth it.
And I have a shed.
Read this today and felt it appropriate to share with you:
ReplyDelete'Concepts don't come neatly packaged. They arise from complex activity in our brains. One of the most influential approaches to cognitive science in recent decades has been the neural network approach.
Neural networks are abstract models of the brain, inspired by brain physiology, that are implemented as computer programs. They consist of many nodes, each connected to many others, forming a complex web of interrelatedness.
Nodes may be activated and send signals to other nodes. When that happens, activation can spread through the network, from node to node. In this kind of model, concepts are typically represented not as individual nodes or as discrete symbols, but as patterns of activation. To put it simply, they're not things, they're occurrences.'
'Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little,' Christopher Johnson.