A day at the beach...

Where shall we go today....?

Well - we do live by the beach - so pack a picnic and off we go..

How about down there?? That looks nice!

Lovely walk down...

Surprisingly quiet for a Saturday - lots of RockPools!

We saw this on the way home...maybe we go down there next time?

All in all - a Lovely day at the beach!

Hello, Goodbye

A few weeks before we moved, Gimli got sick - real sick. She lost a third of her body weight in what seemed like just a few weeks and the diagnosis was not good. Not wanting to put her through the additional stress of moving home (or Bilbo the stress of potentially losing a friend AND being in a new home) we came to the difficult decision to put her to sleep.

We have had 14 lovely years with her, and now she is with her brother Frodo who we sadly lost about 5 years ago.

So...then we moved, and Bilbo is doing really great - but we felt he was a little lonely having been Gimli's companion for the past few years.

Introducing Bella...

:: Playing ::

:: They are getting along ok ::

:: Sleepy Bella ::

:: Hiding ::

:: Goodbye Friend ::

Blog Block...

Is that even a real thing - I just haven't felt like, been inspired to, seen the point in blogging recently. To be honest I don't even know what is changing my mind but here goes....am I really cut out for this?

:: Firstly...how do you like the new look? I decided that I have been away for so long that I should make a real change, and what better theme to have now that I officially live BY THE SEA!!

:: So YEP we moved! A month ago we actually fulfilled a dream of living by the Sea (a lot more on that in the next post)

:: SERIOUS BIT - I do miss being so close to my sister and my friends, and I know they feel it too - but now that we are here I can honestly say I think we have done the right thing, even only after a month! Living here is quite the loveliest thing.

:: We lost a much loved member of our small family - Gimli. She didn't make the move with us as got sick just a few weeks prior to the move. Very sad

:: We gained an ickle cheeky new member to our small family - Bella (more on her in another post)

This past week in short...

Saturday:  Went to a concert in London with hubby and friend (very good)

Sunday:  Drove to Cornwal ready for house hunting

Monday: Went to see FOUR houses.  Really liked ONE.  Put in an offer.  

Monday PM: Offer was declined

Tuesday:  That's that for now - will keep an eye out and go again in a few weeks.  Travel back from Cornwall

Wednesday PM: Hubby predicts we will hear from the agent before Saturday that they will accept our offer.  I find this incredibly hard to believe

Thursday 9am (ish): Agent phoned telling us that our offer was accepted

Thursday 9.15am:  I serioulsy burn the toast that was under the grill when the phone went... I went upstairs to tell hubby in my euphoria?!

Now need a bit more money - so definately need to sell both bikes (motorbikes)

Friday about 4.30:  Place freead for my bike

Friday 5.45: Man calls asking to come see bike, NOW.  Man drives up from Southampton

Friday 7.30:  Bike Sold, deposit paid, pickup arranged for next week!!!

Can you imgine the rollercoaster I have been on this week!.  But we have a HOUSE (provisionally)....

Going going GONE!!

Just a short update tonight 'cos I think I am still in shock!!

Today we ACCEPTED AN OFFER! So OUR house is sold...we just need to find the new one now!

...watch this space

Disappointment...

House Update: The house that we have had our eye on in Cornwall has sadly SOLD STC

......Insert WAILING here.......

I know that anything could happen, and I know it obviously wasn't meant to be, and I know there will be another better house out there for us...but for now, just right now I am so upset.

The upside? Last night was the first night for a few nights that I have woken myself up at about 4.15am only to start thinking about where all our furniture will go...last night I slept soundly.

On this end - we had had two more viewings and have another tomorrow...fingers crossed!? Then will have to start the search again.

A quiet weekend.... ha!

One of the jobs we knew we needed to do was replaster a corner of the bathroom where we had a rather suspicious looking patch of blown plaster... Earlier in the week we had the work done - which then left us with a rather ugly bathroom :(

Our agent called in the week and has arranged another three viewings (the first of which was earlier today), so this kicked me into touch to get the bathroom decorated and looking presentable again.

This is what it looked like before (notice the offending corner above left of Bilbo's tail)Honestly, all that was holding up that corner was the wallpaper and paint...

So, after deciding to go a little more NEUTRAL (how many house selling programs have I watched recently)...here is the result:We matched the paper luckily, but the bright blue took FOUR coats of paint to cover...however it looks presentable now and the wall is no longer bulging!!

So - here is to another week of nail biting. One tomorrow and another on Weds booked in...