Slowly, slowly catchee monkey.

At last, finally got the contracts and other paperwork today for the house sale and purchase, we’ve been rather frustrated as a whole month seems to have passed to achieve very little, and not down to us, as we’ve have been very quick in replying to letters etc. A combination of stuff being queried by us and our buyers, buyers and selllers being on holiday/honeymon, people not responding as quickly as they could to things, solictors being slow at doing stuff….. it all adds up.

Anyway, at least exchange of contracts is now on the horizon, hope we can get them to agree to a quickish completion.

It’s a bit of an odd situation really, we are still in the old/current house, but my head is already thinking and planning about the new house.

It’s been an odd year really, as it has been both very full, but also it’s often felt like we were treading water much of the time. This time last year Helen was in the throws of getting a consultant appointment, the Cambridgeshire job was on the cards, but it looked like a Leeds job was a real possibility – hopefully part time. But it was not to be, though it took many months to arrive at this point. Then we had the whole finish doing up the house, Helen working away from home, getting the post, being pregnant, having Butterbean thing. Lots happening, but under it all a sense of waiting to get on with things – garden went by the board mostly, plans for this year were put on hold etc. this has of course grown as the whole selling/moving thing progressed. Helen has found this harder to handle , as many of the changes impacted her rather more directly and she hates change at the best of times, let alone a year of it. And we do feel that we have missed out a bit on the maternity leave. Rather than a nice calm relaxing 6 months with Helen at home, we’ve been selling houses, buying houses, zooming backwards and forwards across the country , and now it’s almost over We had hoped, long ago, for me to take time off during the Mat leave and for us to go travelling somewhere for couple of months, but it was not to be this time and with SB we couldn’t afford it, next time…….

We just want done with it all now, to be packed up, moved, to have got over saying all the good byes (actual and psychological), to be in the new house, getting settled, getting on with new things and enjoying the summer.

Blogging the rest of today can wait, I supose I ought to be in bed really.

PS Well the smoke alrms work fine, went off in response to a bit of singed toast before I noticed the smell. Shame it was 1.15 am……….