Tuesday 7 February 2017

Eating From The Freezer

Back to slimming club this week and I'd lost 1lb, probably because I had no appetite for most of last week. A good job too since I hardly left the house for several days so no walking done. Mind you, I've likely regained it tonight thanks to a full roast dinner followed by cheesecake brownies and cream courtesy of DS2. It was extremely unhealthy especially as my senile old brain forgot to remind me to cook extra veg to go with it. We had roast potatoes and parsnips but I forgot the green beans and carrots until I'd already started serving up. DD2 didn't mind, he's not a fan of veg, and there was plenty to eat without them but it was even less healthy than it should have been.

I'm really getting the freezer cleared now that I've used the chicken and most of the sausage meat and sliced bacon. I've also slow cooked a small gammon joint to have tomorrow with chips and beans and on Thursday with crusty rolls and pickles. The remains of the chicken will make another meal on Friday. There's very little left in there now to make a main meal so I'll have to buy things day by day until we finally move. 

And on the subject of the move, our buyer's application for a buy-to-let mortgage has been refused, but he's managed to talk the surveyor and building society into looking at his application again so we're awaiting the result of that. If it's still refused he wants us to wait until he's sold another property he owns so he can pay cash. That could take weeks or even months so we're not prepared to do that and we'll re-market our house instead. In fact, we have a cash buyer viewing tomorrow just in case. The good news is our buyer's solicitor has his search report back and there are no problems, so if his mortgage is approved then the process could still move fairly quickly and if a miracle happens the move could still possibly go ahead at the very end of next week. We're keeping our sellers up to date and have said that we'll quite understand if they want to try and find another buyer, but we really still want to buy if they are prepared to wait. Of course, that depends on whether their seller is also prepared to wait for them. 

To tell the truth I'm sick of the whole thing and at the moment I'm just trying to forget all about it and let things take their course. As much as we want to move from here at least we have a roof over our heads and the longer we're here the more we're paying off our current mortgage.

Tomorrow morning I'm meeting up with my old grammar school friend. I'm worried we won't find anything to talk about after not seeing each other for over 40 years. I've found an old black and white photo of our tutor group taken after we'd completed an 8 mile sponsored walk over the cliffs from Dover to Deal. I think we were in the 4th form, so about 14-15 years old, and it would have been around 1972. I was trying to put names to faces and managed about half the group. Hopefully my friend might know some more and it will give us something to chat about.

That's all for tonight. I'm tired out and will be in bed before long. Have a good evening, love Helen xx


6 comments:

  1. I understand how fed up you are with the house move. We feel exactly the same with ours. It has been going on so long we feel in limbo. We've sold it four times, two of them changed their minds, one of them because they were young and wanted a new modern house and two of our house sales were to the same buyers. The first time it fell through with them was because their buyer had a death in the family and pulled out so our buyers put their house back on the market and sold it within a week or two. At the second attempt with the same buyers we got to just a couple of days from signing when a call from our solicitor told us that our buyers second lot of buyers had fallen through because on the survey they'd received about our buyers house it was revealed that there were problems with the drains so they took their house off the market. Now we're back at the beginning again. It is very demoralising. Good luck with your sale.

    Joan (Wales)

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    1. I'm so sorry to hear about the problems you've had with the sale of your house. It's so frustrating. We had offered on two previous places that fell through (we were gazumped on one of them) and if our buyer doesn't get a move on we'll have to put our house back on the market and possibly lose this third house we're hoping to buy. I'm not even sure I care any more...but then I do so want to move from this area. Well, fingers crossed our buyer gets his finances sorted soon; in the meantime we have a viewer booked in for eds afternoon just in case. I hope all goes well for you and you can move soon. Love, Helen x

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  2. Fingers crossed that things are sorted soon for you. x I hope you enjoy your meeting with your old friend.

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  3. I really do commiserate with your move hold up... we were ready to move 31st Jan but the buyer at the bottom of the chain dropped out, the day before contracts were to be exchanged! There is a new buyer but we have to wait for this one to go through the whole buying process, grrrr Like you we are fed up of waiting!

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    1. Sorry to hear about the glitch in your move. It's so frustrating, isn't it? Hope it gets sorted soon. Love Helen x

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