Well knock me down with a feather

[Rhubarbgarden]

Mr Rhubarb liked the house we viewed today. Very much so, in fact. He liked the high ceilings and the light-filled rooms, and the presence of all the original fireplaces and some nice floorboards and parquet got him all enthusiastic. Who would have thought it? For the first time, he didn't come home saying 'nah, our house is better'.

It was all a bit chaotic because baby Rhubarb was crying the whole time and small Rhubarb was running around and making escape bids, and being all shouty and high maintenance, so we are going to go back for a second viewing on Wednesday when small Rhubarb will be farmed out.

That is all. Sorry very self indulgent thread but I am so at this turn of events I needed to share!

Ha bless him. Well 5p is 5p .

I saw the house, its lovely. It was quite sad its an old man moving out. He and his wife lived there from when the house was built and it has their whole life there. .

Its not an option to live there. The garden is even smaller than I thought. That picture is pretty much it and it slopes steeply so can't really even use that. It is very pretty if you just want to look at it out of the window and not use it!

I'm going to take a builder with me to price the work but I'm wondering if I would get PP as none of the other houses have had this quite obvious extension - so I'm wondering if its a no no.

Other than that its a really good size and layout and if I wasn't a garden person I would be very happy there.

I'm going to offer on it anyway and try and get it below 150.

Oh good luck! Sounds like a nice project. Shame about the garden, but I'm the same - small gardens are a total dealbreaker. Could you speak to the planning dept to get an idea of whether they might allow the extension?

Our house was similar in that it had had the same old couple living here for the past 50 years and they'd basically died here, within a year of each other. But I couldn't be sad because it felt like a really happy house full of happy memories, and the grandchildren had carved 'we love Lane' on the wall in the downstairs loo together with all their names. It was really sweet. I'm not normally a sentimental soul but I do think there are happy houses and sad houses.

That was supposed to be 'we love xxxx Lane' but the asterisks disappeared!

Oh thats lovely, I believe that too. This is a happy house. To be honest I would love to live there, even though its old and has red glossed cornices I totally felt at home. But even aside from the garden it would be jumping too far back down the ladder from our current house. I would have to sell our furniture and start again, nothing would fit. And we do hope to have another DC in the near future not quite as near future as DP wants so going smaller without having to would just be folly.

I will ring the council on monday when I'm back at work about PP because thats the only way the house will make me a good profit really, but I do just love it so I might have a look at keeping it as a rental.

I'm greedy with houses, I want them all...so many in need of a good home, so few pennies to buy them all!