Noooooooooooo!

Woke up to this, this morning! How can it be? I was on the verge of getting out my linen and waxing my legs last week. Snow in winter is great, snow when you are expecting summer is pants.

I am stuck at home today, youngest has the lurgies. I just hate not going into work when I'm not ill. It feels like I'm skiving. I have a vague sense of unease when I'm off work.

I have a very definite sense of unease anyway at the moment. Our house purchase has hit a hiccup can you believe? I am so pee-ed off with the owners. We had all agreed happily to an end of May completion date. Now we have had the survey done and have committed money to this, they now say they won't be back in the UK until the end of June and we can't have the house until then. Our rental here finishes on June 14th (though we have said end of May to them so we can get some work done before moving in). They are saying that it's not an insurmountable problem and surely we can extend our rental for a month.

I was very upset that I have to delay having a house for an extra month, mainly because of my gardening passion....the difference between having a house in May and having a house in June, gardening wise is the difference between getting a garden established for the summer and not getting the garden established for the summer. I know, I could be very Zen (is that the word?) about this and think that I've waited this long, why not another month? But quite frankly I DON'T WANT TO! I have been striking out the weeks on my calendar. My mum thinks we should 'stand firm' and tell them what WE WANT. I am very cross they chose this time to tell us and not before. I think that is exceptionally conniving and manipulative. I have written back to them and told them it's not possible, our landlord won't allow it. Huh! Why do I have to resort to lying and conniving? Even a private sale, without the evil Estate Agents, is not without it's EVIL houseowners.