Oliver's Blog

We made it. We got the keys to the new house yesterday afternoon and this morning the removal guys unloaded the lorry. So far the kitchen, dining room, and Poppy’s bedroom are sorted. The lounge is sort of unpacked too.. we need more furniture though before we can unpack our clothes. Our old bedroom had fitted wardrobes, and although the new house has a walk-in wardrobe it doesn’t have any drawers for clothes, just hanging space and a few shelves. Tomorrow is shopping day and we need tons of food and furniture.. and a new bed. We ordered a new fridge/freezer and dish washer last night so that will be with us on Tuesday hopefully. Most importantly the Sky man has been and connected us up…

Tonight will be our first night in the new house, I’m hoping I don’t get up in the night and urinate in the wardrobe instead of the bathroom by accident. Anyway, the next big unpacking job is the garage. At present you can barely move in it and with the nice weather at the moment it’s very important I get my barbecue out. Right…. it’s going to be quiet on the blog for a while due to lack of internet connectivity in the house. BT aren’t coming to connect us until Wednesday, then it’ll be a couple of weeks for the broadband order to go through.

Tomorrow is going to be hard work. By the end of the day we have to have packed up everything except for our overnight stuff so as Pickfords can load up their lorry Friday morning. So only two more sleeps left in Bedworth and then we’re off to Wales.

Finally we have exchanged! It was an eventful day which started with a phone call advising us that our seller’s solicitors were going bust which explains the reasons behind their strange excuses and delays on Friday. However after many nervous hours we finally got confirmation of the contract exchange at 5pm. So now we’re not going to be homeless on Friday after all. Lots to do, lots to organise, got to go, bye!

Oh yes, and stupid me forgot my laptop power supply so will have to conserve the half charged battery until I get (old) home on Wednesday evening. Still, it means I’ll have to use my PS3 more instead.

So, end of the day and we’ve not bought a house. Hopefully it’ll all go through on Monday but at least the all important sale is sealed in concrete pretty much.

We’ve now officially exchanged contracts for the sale of our house. However… not on the purchase. I had to make a decision earlier to ensure that our sale went through regardless of any problems arising with the purchase of our new house. It seems that our seller’s solicitors are having resourcing issues today and can’t mobilise someone for a 10 minute contract exchange telephone call. Anyway, should our purchase not go through today or before our sale completion date of next Friday then we’ll be officially homeless.. nice! .. so Ken and Sylvia… are you ready??? I’ll post more later as I get more news – a lot can happen in these final few hours as I’m learning.