A Week of Ups and Downs As House Purchase Falls Through

Posted on August 22, 2009

This week has been real heart attack material, I arrived home from a lovely trip to Cornwall to discover that my proposed house move had collapsed, all my hopes of getting settled in tatters.Though the people buying my house were still keen in proceeding, the flimsy chain above had collapsed, leading the guy I was buying off to somewhat understandably, take his house off the market. Fucking great, just what the doctor ordered.As of last night ...

Read More


A Lovely Trip To Cornwall

Posted on August 17, 2009

I have just come back from a lovely trip to Cornwall with Sally, Brin, Ed, Nick, Paula, and Diane. It was really nice of Sally to have her stay at what is her holiday home in Penpol, Newquay. We set off on Wednesday night, and I had to laugh when Di pulled out an A4 piece of paper with the directions , I have SATNAV for gods sake, it is a simple operation. I plugged in our destination, Penpol, and we were on the road, arriving to our destination ...

Read More


Lets all agree to agree on an agreement!!!

Posted on August 12, 2009

Life is at a critical crossroads for me right now, with my ***Decree Nisi coming through and the imminent sale and purchase of different houses in which I am stuck in the middle of a vulnerable chain, one that could snap at any time.This isn't helped by a delay caused by a consent order (financial settlement). This is an agreement between the parting couple of the split of finances (mainly property and business in our case). This was agreed ...

Read More


Swanage part 2

Posted on August 9, 2009

Just had a great time down in swanage with the Withey's the Newton's and latterly the Porter's. This was no glamour holiday but as you can see we all had a great time and the weather was pretty good at times though I have omitted Tuesday and Thursday which were grim.All but one night we cooked around the BBQ and enjoyed good food and wine whilst Stewart and John had a "who can light the best BBQ" competition and various half hour conversations ...

Read More


Posted on July 31, 2009

Just got back from leg two of Swanage and though it was no heatwave, we got away quite lightly and saw at least some sunshine, and everyone had a great time. I came back on Tuesday to the surprise of everyone who thought they had got rid of me, and got straight back in to drinking and having fun.We had a great day on Wednesday first a game of golf where I was crowned champion of Brougton, and we luckily missed most of the rain. We had a deluge ...

Read More