View from the Potting Shed

This morning I felt a bit like the chap in the photograph. Having woken around 04:30 and listened to the US mid-term elections for a while on the BBC World Service I fell soundly asleep once again only to be rudely awoken by Jane, nudging me and saying “Gareth! It’s 08:15!” Just goes […]

Today we’ve been dismantling furniture in Kadesh. I thought that you might like to see the three (reverse) stages of bunk beds.

Stage one: Bunk beds.

Stage two: Bunk beds being dismantled.

Stage three: A pile of wood.

At the moment Jane and I now have our metaphorical property fingers in three metaphorical property pies. Today it was confirmed that our offer on 45 Lindsay Berwick Place (pictured right) was accepted. Our move-in date is Wednesday 8 November.
So now we have to ensure that our furniture is out of Kadesh before 17 October, […]

Kadesh has now been sold.
On Monday 25 September we sold Kadesh, only eleven days after we put it on the market. It was truly an answer to prayer; praise God!
Having been so disappointed that we couldn’t afford to extend the house in the way that we envisioned it we quickly set about putting it up […]

… probably not.
(Thanks to Cousin Char in California for sending us this postcard.)

We were so close, but we lost the house. We were told that it was ours subject to their financial team sorting things out and then 20 mins later we’d lost it because someone else walked in and bought it outright.
More details to follow but we are gutted.

Well, today we certainly viewed some houses. ‘We’ being Jane, myself and our neighbour Yvonne, whom we introduced as our Interior Designer.
It was actually a joke, but the lady showing us around three of the five properties must have believed me because she kept asking Yvonne’s opinion on what she would recommend in terms […]