Hello, I've posted the picture as everyone is interested but just to let you know - we went to see it last night again and decided it just needed too much work and we couldn't afford it - after all you're paying for the location and the garden more than the house, so we've left it (unless the price comes down by about 50,000!!!



Morning all,

I've been a bad bad blogger recently. Life has been busy but busy with nothing much happening, if you know what I mean. I've woken up really early today (AND it's my day off - tch) - actually saw my husband this morning before he disappeared off into the darkness on his bike to the station - blimus it was cold this morning - time the guinea pigs came in from their semi feral existence in their run and back into their hutch.

Well, I have some house news but don't get excited. The BIG and EXPENSIVE house that we wanted decided to remove itself from the market. (After they had accepted our offer, because they couldn't find anywhere to buy that they liked).

But the agent phoned me the day before yesterday with a house for us to view, before it actually comes on the market - first look if you like. It's so difficult this house hunting lark. This house is on a massive, massive plot yet it's in a prime location, has a garage, and in and out drive, a summer house, a garden the size of a field - everything we want. The house itself is a 1930's job - has the sort of metal windows with curves on - the sort you'd see in Poirot. The big downside of this house is that it doesn't have a kitchen as such - the owners who've only been in the house one year have moved out - all very suspicious and it looks like they've shoved a kitchen in the utility room quickly to get a sale. I can't get to the bottom of why they were only in the house for a year, should I be suspicious? So basically, the house is, once again at the very top of our budget and it needs a large kitchen extension and new bathrooms and a general freshening up of the decor. Otherwise it's a nice house - not massive though - you don't get that feeling of palatial grandeur. Wish I had some pictures but it's not on the market yet. (Is this really really boring for you reader? - it certainly is for me!)

So, the long and short of it is, this house is perfectly located with loads of outside space but is too small inside without an add on at the back - which we couldn't afford. However, you'd never lose on a house like that, so putting up with a kitchen the size of a utility room - could we? Andy can't. PTB PTB PTB.


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UPDATE UPDATE! Pictures have arrived. I just posted them to blogger, it's says they're on but they are not showing! PTB. Maybe they'll update themselves later...that happens sometimes.