Playing the waiting game .....

Waiting


1: For the moment when we actually exchange contracts on the house in Devon - everything is in order with our paperwork signed and at the solicitors; the buyers paperwork is in the post; cash transfer being arranged. (Completion is already agreed as 14th October)


2: To head to the Lakes for some walking, good food and drink and hopefully some good weather - well we can hope on the last one. (Pics and blog to follow) 

3: To find out where we are actually going to live when we move to Scotland. Short list is now running at 7 or 8 houses with viewings arranged over the 16th / 17th September. 

4: To hear that the sale of the croft and house site to be finalised. Our Scottish solicitor is chasing the very slow formal written response from the vendor.

5: To go back to Skye and meet up with Mary so that we can start the design process. So far all that we have is an option for drains - a very good start but we do need more!  Planning to do that during w/c 10 October - after we have moved house and before we head to the lakes for a second week with Jacqueline and Ian and before I start my new job. Simples!


In the meantime we enjoyed my niece Charlotte's wedding to Richard last Friday. A day of blue skies, a beautiful bride, friends and family, good food all in a lovely setting at the China Fleet Club in Saltash. Marie played the perfect mother of the bride and John gave a wonderful speech.
We all looked fantastic and scrubbed up well.

Charlotte & Richard 2.9.11

Proud mother and daughter

Have spent the last couple of weeks throwing out the rubbish from every conceivable corner of the house; packing up the stuff we don't use every day; dismantling shelves etc and enjoying the odd walking day.  Good walks from Beer to Branscombe including the 99 steps and also a Sidmouth circuit where we tested our vastly improved lungs by going steeply up through the woods then doing Soldiers Hill on the same walk. 

So, things are looking good at the moment - what a difference a year makes! 
It was this time last year that the rumblings about project cancellation and redundancies started.
I could never have imagined how things would work out - every cloud and all that.


Look out for some gorgeous photos and the walking diaries from the Lakes next week - weather permitting.