Good luck Aimee 

 

Nowt - I've just got up!

Paid £317 for a full car service and suspension repair.

 

After fainting i drove home and thought the car was almost like new - very, very nice

I got my flat valued... now I have to decide whether or not to put it on the market...  

 

I'm excited by property. Did you get a value which matches your expectation?

 

Exciting times for you.  

 

 

yep.. got two valuations, one guy thinks he could probably get a few thousand more than the other.   I don't have anywhere to go though.. so I was sussing out what is the best way to do it.  Consensus seems to be put it on the market and if it sells only agree to a 'mutually agreed date' and hope I find something quick.   Worst case is I make them wait too long and they back out, but then I'm no worse off.    I'm pretty specific about what I want and where though, so I don't want to risk finding somewhere before I've sold and then losing out to someone who isn't part of a chain.   My mind is  tonight!

 

Do you have friends or family you could stay with if you get a buyer but your prospective property is not quite ready for you to move into (assuming you find one of course).

 

That's what I'm thinking of doing. Hoping to move in with family while I find my next place so the I can sell or rent my current place.

 

I could if it was only for a few weeks (well, I could for as long as I wanted really, but I like my own space and any longer than that would do my head in!)   so I'd only do it if I had a place I'd had an offer accepted on, I wouldn't do it while I was waiting for my perfect place to come on the market     I was assured that the estate agent won't mind if I keep having buyers pull out because I'm not ready to move - and it's just a one off fee, even if it's on the market for years...    

Have you got your place on the market EC?

 

I too like my own space and would be able to endure a few weeks or a couple of months maximum while I was moving to a new place.

 

I don't have my place on the market as I would ideally like to rent it out and then take out some equity to help move to a new place. I have seen my ideal place and it's on the market, the problem is I am not in a position to move as yet.

 

The good thing is my flat is in a popular renting area and I could get between £550-£600 per calendar month.

 

EC are you leaving your job and selling your house?

Never cut and dried is it, EC.    Good luck with it all.

Staying with the job, just fancy a new place to live in. Been here for quite a while now.

No it's definitely not. Thanks and same to you with your search/move.

Been to Colchester Zoo in the pi**ing rain and got drenched - but it was fun.

Had slow cooked pork in Calvados for birthday tea and winding down now as 4.30 start tomorrow for work.

 

Is it your birthday Mike?

 

No - my new young lady was 40 today.

I asked what she'd like to do - meal out/film/whatever - all she wanted to do was go to the zoo.

So we went to the zoo.

And it was good fun.

Childish stamping in puddles and soaking one another - but lots of laughter and a great day.

Never seen a "false tomato frog" before!

 

Glad to hear you two had a good time. 

 

I've never seen a frog like that either, although not hard to miss 

Worked 14 hours  - off tomorrow thank God

Since you ask..... A routine Sunday. Bike ride, The Archers, Carvery, shopping, a visit to a Vyella chuck out, Football watching, home, catching up with Salamander.

Sold my house I think....

 

Fingers crossed. That seems quite quick Kaffy.

 

Have you got your eye on a new home?

We done Kaffs

Fingers crossed for you. Have you seen something you want to buy yet?

Congratulations Kaffy  Hope everything goes smoothly and you find a nice place. 

... thanks folks.. but today I unsold it!  

 

Would be buyer was aware I didn't have anywhere to go yet - and is trying to force me into a stupidly short entry date, so I said thanks, but no thanks.    I'm like you, EC, not in a particular hurry so move so I'm prepared to wait until all the stars are aligned and it's just right!    She was being a smart arse.. tried offering a stupid low price to begin with, then agreed my bottom price but wanted in in five weeks (and it's for her son who's a first time buyer and has a place to stay in the meantime - so could easily wait)   Given that I've been looking since September and seen nada - I'm not prepared to put myself in that position.   I'm a great believer in fate - it'll all come right in the end.

 

i hope. 

 She sounds thoroughly objectionable Kaffy. Well, that'll learn her for being a smart@rse.  

Right decision, Kaffs. You'll know when it's the right offer for you.

And I like that Mrs Smartypants got a knockback.

She was - thinks she's some female Arfur Daley type...

 

I do too.. I really want someone else to buy it now, I don't want to sell to her any more! 

 Quite right, too.

Worked. I've worked damn hard.

I deserve my weekend.

 

Bathed.

Been to see Mum.

Shopped.

Had a coffee.

Shopped a bit more.

Come home.

Babysat my granddaughter. 

Not a lot.....

Walked into a breakdown on press first thing and engineer didn't sort 'til gone 9.00

Then assorted paper issues throughout the day on a series of Lycamobile jobs on paper so thin I was expecting to be able to read "IZAL" if I held it up to the light.

Was glad to get home.

 

Spring Cleaned my house.

 

I hope you can see what I have typed as it is bizarrely invisible on my screen

You cleaned that much it's not there anymore!!

Went to Slimming World ........gained one and a half pounds

 

Went to my IT class finishing up the Data Base module.

Nipped into Marks for a sandwich, low cal moussaka, grapes and bananas.

 

Popped to my mums on the way home and cleaned her windows and hung her new net curtains which I got her as one of her birthday pressies.

 

Came home - did a bit of book work - made two pies for Mr Woo - one for tonight (when he gets in from chess club) and one for tomorrow.

 

Gonna put some washing on in a min.

 

Watched Corrie

I did, I really did. I just wish the men folk that come home and mess it up would make their mess just as invisible

Discovered that an old family friend had died 3 weeks after his wife.

 

RIP Mr Webster