New Roots
Loosening Ties Thu July 15th Simple Pleasures At the same time we are making decisions about our continued presence in Canada and what we do with our main house in the UK, we learn the NZ branch has been granted residency in the country they love. After two and a half years, the stress and uncertainty over their continued presence, Covid travel restrictions and wedding plans; their residency came through today - well tomorrow their time, it's already Friday there! A bubbling, babbling Ros was overjoyed. We were for her, though it cemented the international nature of the Cronk gene pool. In some ways it reinforced our wish to stay in BC and loosen our ties to the UK. We have decided to go ahead and put Eastcourt House on the market. Even if our plans fail, we're not sure we'd want to come back to the house the 'kids' were brought up in knowing they were so far away and have all the maintenance liabilities of a three hundred year old pro...