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Will they, won’t they……..?

Posted on January 31, 2005 | 8 comments

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Well, I spent about an hour staring at the phone this morning before I plucked up courage to phone up the estae agents and make an offer on the nice victorian house. Intial offer rejected, as we expected really, but got enough info to put in another offer later.

Bit more than we wanted to have to go to, but it hasn’t been rejected yet, so hopefully it has been enough for them to consider it – it’s our max. offer, but may still be bit low for them, so we will have to see..

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Oh put me out of my misery……….

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Some Home-Ed [at last!]

Posted on January 30, 2005 | 2 comments

We do do other things apart from cleaning and viewing, honest!!
As a present to SB for being so well behaved, she got a richard scarry leap pad book, and seemed to really like it. We went through it together, and then her other 2 books, so leappadded out.

We have also been pirates today [in the viking boat] looking for hairbrush treasure [her choice], and Even pirate Alys in the boat – Chris may do piccie if we don’t drunk too much shampers after SB goes to bed. Our pirating antics didn’t put buyers off though!This led to a discussion on pirates and looking at the bit on webland. We weblanded for some time on other bits as well. I think next installment is next week?

A re-enactment of princess and the pea and other stories with puppets, and then some mooching with a tots tv video. So quite a variety of low key home ed things going on with lots of attention to offset house hunt.

BB a delight – v smiley happy baby. She is v interested in her hands now, and gurgles to us.

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Todays piccies.

Posted on January 27, 2005 | 2 comments

Ok, ok….. here we are with some to go with Helen’s post earlier.

Elinor in her viking ship

Arrrrhhhh !! Viking!!

Viking have to eat

Having a very un-viking Clementine snack.

Alys 9 weeks old

Alys looking cute.

Helen and alys

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First viewing done

Posted on January 23, 2005 | 5 comments

went ok, house fairly presentable, but garden needs a bit more attention! they were fairly non-commital, so prob not buyers, but hopefully they will leave some feedback to help with next viewing. After all, what do you say about a house??

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garden tidy

Posted on January 21, 2005 | Leave a comment

ok, SB still confused with ‘g’ and ‘y’. we had a good play with her JP flash cards, some singapore maths and a fair bit on the weather. made a birthday card and general craftiness!
we then popped outside to weed the veg beds, stick in some broad beans. the shallots are romping away. may stuff in garlic, as will also be verdant during house selling period with negligible care!. tidiedup the espaliered pears. this is their 5th year, so have 4 tiers. v sad that we won’t actually get to taste them. 2 more beds to tidy, then prune the raspberries and goosegogs. greenhouses looking sad as needwinter clean and lost a pane of glass in the wind. will blame newborn at viewing! chris did one of his fav garden thigs – burning! a nice bonfire was made.
BB must have been messing with latch on left as v painful today. I can remeber with SB that left always more of a prob.
just realised i am logged in as chris. never mind.
ps, my squeegee window cleaner from lakeland is lovely. even if chris laughs at me!! maay even make windows one of my jobs! should have bought the handle to go with it though

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first viewing

Posted on January 21, 2005 | 4 comments

this sun by someone who has sold their house. fingers crossed.

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Wanna buy a house….

Posted on January 18, 2005 | 4 comments

Apparently this is our house, not sure I recognise it…..

Our house

Please note it is has not normally (in fact ever) been in such pristine state……….

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our 2 favourites

Posted on January 17, 2005 | 10 comments

Modern barn conversion-a-like with fantastic family room – looks much better in real life. in a small village with no amenities, not even sure a bus link. road is a b road and a reasonable though not excessive noise. No place for chest freezer. Can see girsl cycling around the building happily, and garden to make veg and fruit areas, and even room for polytunnel.

victorian listed building which is gorgeous. obviously needs some upkeep work, including roof on utility, some decorating, in the next 5 or so years considering the wiring etc. still big garden, room for fruit and veg. in lovely village with shops etc. but, directly on the road [same mod busy one as barn house, and next to pub. also all that ongoing looking after.

really should be looking at houses below 400000 [what a huge wallop of money that is]

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more house

Posted on January 12, 2005 | 2 comments

stayed up till after 4 last night getting house photoable. [not including box room!] At that point SB woke up – luckilly went bac to sleep.
Gym this morning with helen, tots group this afternoon and chris napping! Now driving to Cambridgeshire for manic house search for 2 days. Both parents knackered and grumpy. both children full of those beans!!
As for ed – well, gym = PE, tots = socialisation and singing. Also looked at pages in usborne encyclopaedia with Helen for an hour = general science, history and all sorts!! COunting, adding and subtracting as part of cooking [though not v much!] SB counted correctly to 34 in car – was v proud!!

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Lovely…

Posted on December 31, 2004 | 14 comments

Got back home from Xmas Wednesday night, but not blogged yet.

But I just had to share this lovely photo that I managed to take of Alys over the break. It’s probably the best photo of the either of the girls I’ve taken. (looks even better as an 8×10 print)

Black and white closeup of Alys

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