Sorry for the radio silence, it’s been a very busy last couple of weeks, with a birthday weekend oasis in the middleJ
We enjoyed a fantastic day in the park in London with friends last Saturday, enjoying the amazing sunny and hot weather we’ve had of late.
On Sunday (my actual birthday), I was woken up (or pretended to be woken up! J) by Mark and Vera singing and bringing cake and presents.
We had a lazy breakfast outside followed by a dash to the shops and to town to pick up some new glasses.
We met Ana, Mark and Ariane for lunch as well as Mark’s sister and her husband (plus two gorgeous dogs!), first in Melbourn, followed by a few afternoon drinks in Grantchester
It’s been quite a stressful time as we’re having delay/issues with our purchase in Sheffield and may need to pull out. In short, and so as not to bore those of you who I’ve already moaned to:
Our seller, despite earlier promises of not holding up a sale, is now refusing to agree a moving out date and insists on linking her sale to a new purchase in Manchester (property yet to be found…)
As we cannot wait a further 12 weeks for her to find a property and close a sale, we are now having to look into rented accommodation and potentially losing lots of £££ already spent on the purchase.
We are also quite close to exchange of contracts on our house and do not want to risk losing our buyers at this end.
The house buying process here in the UK (Scotland aside) is truly nuts and it is very stressful.
However, as always you need to put everything into perspective. People remind me that 6-12 months down the line, this will all be a distant memory.
As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Sommar on Swedish Radio P1, where Kristian Gidlund talks about what it is like dying of cancer and reads a letter to the child he’ll never have
Truly heart breaking. Again perspective.
Fyyy så tråkigt hjärtat!
ReplyDeletePerspektiv, ja. Men du FÅR klaga! Det hör du nästan aldrig!
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