10 days before I moved to La Suisse I became the "lucky" and proud owner of a very small, very cute lady-flat in Brizzle. Totally right for me, an absolutely blessing and I am looking forward to living in it and making my first home there. Perfect single Christian girl flat :-) When I lived there for a brief period last year I was like 'It's my new home!' and got really excited even though I knew it was only for ten days. That as it happens turned out to be a really amazing time in which I became best mates with Ana and was totally blessed by that friendship (yes my dear, I do consider you to be a gift from God!). It was also the period (and place) in which she met her man Dan with whom she is now old and boring with...!
So yesterday I came back one year on and it was one of those "waiting pays off" moments. When you realise really clearly that the concept of everything having a time and a place and whatnot is true and that letting things live out like that is the best thing. But with all the patience I had got the hang of, I clean forgot to get excited about the fact that this time IT IS IT!! I get to move in and make a home and put up whatever I like on the walls and not worry about keeping it sparse 'cause I am leaving at the end of the year. I am still only starting to realise it is for now and the waiting is over... and is was SO worth it.
And, like I had a 10 day taster of the flat, I also had a 10 day taster of Ana. Now I get her all the time! She was the first visitor I had and her and Dan helped me totally unload my car then dragged me off to their fantastic seaview pad in Portishead, ran me a bath, cooked me dinner and insulted me! Got to love having friends like that... It was such a perfect first day back and I was overwhelmed with the truth of the fact that life here is GREAT.
And so perspective changes again. I knew Bristol was going to be good but in Geneva it kinda took a backward step, blurry as it were with Switzerland in the foreground. Now they have changed places and, just as I loved Ana from afar but didn't get to eat her Thai, the same will be for GVA. Robyn's late-night-fruity-salad; Caro's not-as-green-as-I-expected-(but still very good!)-guacamole... Brian's mega-beast-of-an-omelette! Not to mention all the other wonderful people and things and food and places that I love and miss. But the good news is that I can get maple syrup here (thanks mum!) and I can use Skype, so really it don't matter too much. The blurry background is still very much a part of my bigger picture.
I'll leave you on some funnies and praises:
-When I was driving here I was like "God, I know you answer prayer and if you don't its 'cause you have a good reason for it and a better plan but really, I don't see what you would not want me to have a parking space right by my flat" - there it was directly opposite when I arrived. Allelujah!
-When I was talking to Dan and said it feels like a new chapter he asked me if nowadays I lived my life by chapter and verse... He also air kissed me goodbye this morning and said "I won't kiss you 'cause that's like 3rd base for you people". Christian jokes, got to love 'em! On a serious note I am really glad that we can keep our close friendship despite the changes. I know Ana was worried I'd be boring but I have proved to her that in fact she is more so - being all settled and loved up and all!
-As we walked along the harbour this morning (beautiful btw, I will get some piccies up) a local man asked us - in a really fabulous SW accent - whether the swan with it's leg out was OK or if he should call the RSPB. Then Dan was like 'no that swan is always like that, he has a dodgy leg but he's alright'. Love that there are locals that care and more so that there is a local swan. This place is cool.
So. Being back in the home town feels pretty good. Gert good in fact. As Annie, fellow ginger given a new start in life, would say:
I think I'm going to like it here.
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