LOVE IT OR LIST IT - s8 - wed 8pm ch4 Pace tv. Watch Weekly. No Spoilers!

I think they may yet move - and she acknowledged that they might have to in the future. The main thing is they haven't filled the house with mobility aids and ramps which would surely put off all but a very specific buyer if they did decide to sell. I was wondering how that would work and thought at first like a pp that they really needed to be on LLL. By the end I thought Kirsty had done a good job and helped extend the time they would be able to stay in their current home.

I thought all the bungalows were nice. The last one was particularly good, loads of space and the garden room. And in a nice area near a parkrun location (I think the first one was too). DH laughs at me and says that if we ever went on LLL my first criteria would be *must have a parkrun nearby". Well it would make a change from 4 bedrooms, open plan space and a big garden for less money than we've got to spend wouldn't it :)

I'd have gone for the first one as I wouldn't want a big garden. And the village has a railway station and it's not that far from Newark which has good connectivity to London and York.

It might also be that his condition won't get worse, so if he can cope now he may still cope in ten years. It was a stroke, it's not degenerative. I thought the use of the AI voice was very interesting, I assume they gave him the questions and he typed the answers in ready to "play" rather than having a neuroimplant or similar! I've not really seen AAC in use before.

I thought it was a very sad situation for both of them tonight. Can't believe anyone thought she was selfish. With the husband's level of disability, she will be doing the majority of his personal care as well as looking after her mother whom she said was in her nineties. I got the impression that her lovely home and her gardening were her escape from the day to day difficulties.
So pleased they decided to stay for now. They seemed still very much a loving couple, I know of people whose partners' personalities have drastically changed after a stroke and not for the better.

His stroke may have changed him in personality and losing your ability to chat easily about day to day stuff is a massive strain. I would think her local friends and family would be so important to them both.

Lovely couple and I hope the house changes have made it so much better for them both.

I agree @Winniewonka They had lived there for 30 years, it's a lot to change in a short space of time. Plus, having family and friends very close is probably a huge help, to the both of them.
He did seem to be able to speak better in the catch up, and I think being in his home has probably helped that. Somewhere familiar and safe.
Their house was beautiful and as did think they could put in some beautiful sloping paths in the back garden so he could access it all. Maybe it was far too much to do?
It is a shame, after seeing all the properties, that it seems almost impossible to have a one level home with no steps. Even small ones when you have a mobility issue are an issue.

I think that, for Sue, leaving her much loved family home when she had already had to cope with such a change in her husband would have been a step too far.

My DH recently had laryngitis and couldn’t speak for about a week. I found that hard enough, can’t imagine how it would be to permanently lose the ability to chat with your partner. I think that must be harder than his mobility challenges.

I also thought that he must find it quite hard going to type on the tablet with only one functioning hand.

The post calling Sue selfish is cruel. She has such a lot to contend with and as someone who has also lived in my home for many years I can't imagine having to move away from this security on top of everything.
Their lives must be exhausting. I hope the house suits them well enough for a long time.

I agree, you could clearly see how much love there was between them.

If they were able to improve the home well enough to be able to stay there, then it made sense to try. I think when your world is turned upside down, you naturally will cling to whatever you can that feels safe and familiar.

I think she also acknowledged that they may still move as they age and the house becomes too much. Given the fact that his accident and stroke was still relatively recent and she has both and elderly mother to care for and a grandchild on the way, a move would probably just be too much right now.

I was gutted for him, I got the impression he felt like a liability and didn't want to make her leave the big house in the end. He just wanted her to be happy.

Nothing was solved. The house is still not practical.

If that was my husband I'd do everything to make his life easier. A house means nothing if you can't both make it a home.

We let Ds (age 6) stay up while we watched it last night as he couldn't sleep, on the condition he sat quietly in the chair and didn't talk. I was interested to know what he had absorbed as we didn't explain anything and he never normally gets to watch adult TV. He was fascinated by the speaking through the ipad but said that the most important thing was whether Richard was left handed or right handed and was disappointed that this had not been explained. He also said he was glad they moved as they had more room at the end and the new house looked nice. 😀

Perhaps they never intended to list it but wanting professional input for free!?

Also he may still be improving and getting more mobile post stroke. I'm amazed at my own however slight progress years after mine.

I would hope that if my husband was as disabled as the chap last night that I would be prepared to move , the last house was barely any distance away . I don’t think she came across well at all as she was very obviously more concerned about being as close as possible to family and friends and puts that above her husband being able to live his best life . Sad

That's an awful thing to say. Being a carer is really difficult.

@tothelefttotheleft I agree, carers aren't allowed to have needs it seems.

I wouldn't be surprised when they originally applied he had less mobility and now he's improved that was less of an issue. He would probably see less of friends and family if they move too and he probably needs more interaction not less.

Turmerictolly mentioned a stairlift. I wonder if that would be a possibility?

Anyone know where the dress that the house owner Rachel was wearing in tonight's episode is from?? I wants it!

I thought the options shown were great ( I wouldn't have minded one myself ) and was sad that the wife wouldn't move despite her dh wanting to.
But she works part time, has an elderly mother and an incapacitated dh. I'll cut her a wee bit of slack.
I didn't think the house was improved that much, access to the garden was still difficult and thought the electric mixing bowl stored in in the utility / toilet area was yucky. Kirsty gives out about washing machines in kitchens and the hygiene issue yet there's a mixing bowl in a toilet area🙄.

I love this show. Not as much as LLL but I love watching house shows.

I felt sorry for the last couple. The house didn’t seem practical still for him but it must be difficult for her contemplating leaving when she loves it so much.

For the poster who asked my daughter has an AAC device and you can input phrases and sentences so the programme probably told him the questions that would be asked so he’d have the replies already.

Found the first couple Amy and Brian a bit odd but some of that was the age gap.

Or, as I put it last night- no way would you be having a poo in the same room as my KitchenAid DH!