Hello
Am of all the meet ups. Can't wait till I'm driving, may be able to actually get to one!
IDOB, that's great news about baby being the right way up Not long to wait till you see her now
Kayz, hope DH isn't too bad for you, if it makes you feel any better, DH has his snip tomorrow, am already getting 100%serious 'comments' of what he is and isn't going to be doing for the next week, e.g. yesterday's blinder was "I expect I'll be OK to feed Mikey by about Saturday, but you'll have to get his bottle or food ready and pass him to me, because I won't be able to lift him" I'll leave my reply to your imagination!!
Diege, Is the reflux hurting him? If it's not, I don't think I'd do the gaviscon either. Bless him.
Forgot to tell you all that Mikey got his first tooth through one day last week (Bad mother alert, can't remember what day it was but I did manage to scribble it down in his book, so not bad all the way through!!)
I've got a driving lesson tonight, am really looking forward to it
Our house went on rightmove this morning, got a viewing for Thursday night already Am really suprised because the pictures look bloody awful, I'd even said to DH this morning I'm going to take my own pics, take the memory card to the EA's and get them to change the pics, but if it's generated a viewing already then I might not bother!
OK next bit is about this rented house for anyone who is interested? Feel very free to ignore!
We worked out the figures last night, and we can do it, if the owner will accept us paying the deposit in September once we've found out about the school, and then to move in (and obviously pay the first months rent) early October.
Things that are in our favour: all the other viewings have come to nothing. It's been on the market since before March (possibly since it started being built in September) and again no one bought it. Since it's been up to let as well, they've done (from reading between the lines) something like 8 viewings.
Things not in our favour: apparently the landlord turned an application down 2 weeks ago because they couldn't move in for a month. We can't move in till October.
Now, surely by now it must be sinking into them that no one is going to be able to move in straight away? At some point that switch has got to be flicked and they have to realise that it's a big family house with tentents/buyers who have young children, needing to know they can get the kid/s into that school before they commit to the house?
When I spoke to the letting agents earlier, I asked if we were fighting a losing battle and she said it was impossible for her to say, but when she put our circumstances to the landlord, rather than just straight away turning it down (as he did with the couple a fortnight ago) he asked for some time to think on it. That HAS to be a good sign, no?
Sorry, I know I am banging on about it, but honestly, that house is just absolutely perfect for us, and short of having millions of pounds to build swimming pools etc. if I was building a nice family home for us, that is what I would have built. It is exactly what we want. (In fact the only thing I'd have added to it is a laundry shoot down to the utility, but that is just because I'm obviously exceptionally lazy!! ) The village is beautiful, right opposite the house is the 'village pond' something the kids from the school had built and it has the village hall, they organise summer fairs and treasure hunt's for the whole family etc. it is the kind of community you'd want your kid's growing up in. It is all a little bit Vicar of Dibbley but it's... I don't know, just, right. How I'd imagine the 'good life' to be. There are no supermarkets at the end of the road, it's all farm shops and local business' in the next town, but within easy reach of bigger towns for the serious shopping.
I really am waffling now! Am going to go stare at pictures of the house do something productive