Made a major decision last weekend, to sell the Hollandswood Court Apartment. It was time to move on, the signs were all there, the stars were aligned.
It was love at first sight when I first saw the apartment 2 years ago, the first apartment I came to look at when we decided to buy and after 6 weeks of apartment-hunting, I came back to this one. It was a little over our initial budget but there wasn’t another that came so close to what I was looking for to call a home.
Since then it had evolved, the plants have grown, the koi are huge and we have all settled in nicely. Nice little routines each day, sending G to work, walking the dogs, feeding the fish, watering the plants and then settling down to work. It’s a nice little hole in the sky to call our own.
The apartment has been really good to us, for all the things that it’s not, it’s everything that it needs to be, a place to come back to, a place to have friends over, for dinner, drinks or simply a game of mahjong. A sanctuary, just at the edge of the city, close enough to be convenient, far enough to be away from the crowd.
The time has come to move on, all happy banquets must come to an end. The market is right, the timing written in the stars. For the short 1.5 years that we’ve been here, we’ve had fantastic memories. Already strangers are coming into our home, and one day it will be a great home to one of them. Already I’m starting my hunt again, for the next place for friends and kin — and it will present itself, just as this one did and it will be a love affair all over again.
