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Posted on March 31, 2010

you know it’s been a while when you have to go back and read your last post as a reminder.  So what the hell have we been up to?  It’s a whirl of view­ings and con­tact­ing solic­i­tors and dis­cussing where we want to live.  I’ve been pretty focused on a cer­tain town and we’ve viewed pretty much all there is to see in our price range there.   Wal hates every­thing we’ve seen and that has been stress­ful.  After some to and fro I finally fig­ured out that he doesn’t want to live in that area.…Okaaaaaay.  I’m also bang­ing my head try­ing to get him to under­stand that the style of house he likes, in a good school catch­ment area in our price range DOES NOT EXIST!! He’s SUCH an only child and one that had been on his own for a very long time that it some­times takes him a while to real­ize it’s not all about him.  Main pri­or­ity is good school catch­ment area, then cost and then style.  So I’m now look­ing at an area I was inter­ested in about a year ago.  We viewed one this morn­ing and I love it! It has a nice kitchen and a large open plan living/dining room.  It also has a sep­a­rate fam­ily room, 2 full baths and 3 large bed­rooms.  WIN WIN as far as I’m con­cerned. Oh and did I men­tion it’s in the catch­ment area for 2 out­stand­ing schools?   Yah it is and as you might have guessed Wal’s not all that crazy about it– road noise he says.  I say bull­shit.  He just doesn’t want to move away from our cur­rent loca­tion.  I don’t want to pay overly inflated prices just because of the loca­tion.  Granted we do live in a really nice area but all the other areas we’re look­ing at are also nice.  They’re just not in south Man­ches­ter, they’re more sub­ur­ban.  So that’s were we are at the moment.  Our buyer is really nice and she isn’t in any rush to move so that gives us a cou­ple more weeks to fig­ure some­thing out.  In the mean time it was 2 view­ings today, 1 on Fri­day and 5 for Sat­ur­day. Oh and that noise you hear is my head bang­ing against a wall. Send love, prayers, good vibes, luck and ££!

Here’s a lit­tle cutie patootie I pho­tographed last week.

the one with our life in iphone shots!

Posted on March 24, 2010

Wal trav­els a lot for work so I take ran­dom pic­tures of Squidge (and me) and then I text them to him.  When I say they’re ran­dom well they really are…

the one with the sun

Posted on March 20, 2010

It has been absolutely fab­u­lous here in Man­ches­ter– SUNNY SUNNY SUNNY!!! Almost 2 weeks of sunny and DRY weather and we’ve been out enjoy­ing it! We’ve done a bit of walk­ing.  Equal parts laugh­ing and trantruming

Some lunch dates and park dates and hair appoint­ment dates.…“but don’t let them cut my hair mama.  I a girl and girls have long hair”  We’ve been rolling down hills.  I’ve been told off, “No mama! I do NOT want my photo taken!” and replies of “Sorry baby but that’s what this mama does so look at the camera!”

I need to buy a video cam­era (do they still call them that?!?!?) Squidge was rolling down the hill but she doesn’t know how to do it prop­erly.  She was rolling across the hill and it was pretty funny.  She’s at the stage where you can’t cor­rect her– she just storms off cross­ing her arms and throw­ing her chin as far up into the air as pos­si­ble har­rumph­ing as she goes.  It’s all I can do to stop laugh­ing sometimes.

A lit­tle update on the house.  We “offi­cially” put the house on the mar­ket on Thurs­day.  The estate agent came by on Mon­day (8th) to take a quick look around and dis­cuss ask­ing price.  The pho­tog­ra­pher was here on Wednesday(9th) and listed on their website/rightmove by Thursday(10th).  We had two view­ings with 2 more booked for this week­end and early next week. It was all look­ing really good, well except for all the damn clean­ing I kept hav­ing to do!  Lo and behold on Thursday(18th) we got a full ask­ing price offer on the house.  We are cau­tiously opti­mistic that the sale will go through.  It all hap­pened very quickly we’re still a bit shell-shocked.  I’ve scram­bled around and set up some view­ings– 3 today and 4 tomor­row.  Keep­ing our fin­gers crossed we can find some­thing we like and can afford. We’ll keep you posted and would appre­ci­ate happy and pos­i­tive thoughts sent our way.

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