Aaaagh! This afternoon brings the first possible hiccup in the sale of our house, which seemed to be going so smoothly. Our buyers have brought to our attention some things in the survey of the house, such as recommended installation of collars to the roof and installation of a threshold to the garage above the garage doors.
How trivial can people get? And we're disappointed that they've waited 6 weeks after getting the survey results before bringing these recommendations to our attention.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!! We react by phoning the firm that has done roofing work for us in the past, and asked them to come by and look at the house on Monday morning, so we'll see !!!!
09:30 Before the above bombshell, everything had been going to plan today. Our elder daughter Alison and her 3 children Josie (15), Rosalind (14) and Isaac (12) are staying with us for a few days, but this morning Alison and I take the two girls down to the Royal Well Bus Station to put them on a bus to Oxford. They've arranged to stay a couple of nights with an aunt in the city.
Josie (right) turns to smile at the camera while
preparing to board the bus from Cheltenham to Witney and Oxford
Alison talks to Josie and Rosalind through the bus window
as the bus prepares to depart
The Royal Well Bus Station is a nostalgic place for me. Many's the time Lois and I dropped my late brother Steve off here, so that he also could take the bus back to Oxford, where he was living.
Also, on at least one occasion we saw my late sister Kathy off here, A couple of times she boarded the bus to Heathrow here for her flight back to the US, where she had lived since 1983.
flashback to 2007: my late sister Kathy boarding the bus for Heathrow
Happy times !!!!!!
10:30 We come home, and Lois and I, plus Alison and Isaac, decide to take a walk over the local football field, starting by having a drink and a bit of cake at the Whiskers Coffee Stand by the Parish Council Offices. Eva, the young Polish woman, is serving today.
Lois and I buy a coffee and cake, and then take a walk over the local football field,
with our elder daughter Alison and her youngest child Isaac (12)
19:30 We spend the evening watching one of the old DVDs that Alison has agreed to take off our hands, to save us downsizing too much, which is nice!
And it's nice to see again Canadian actress Beatrice Lillie playing the role of Mrs Mears, one of New York's Chinese "white-slavers" from the 1920's.
Beatrice Lillie as Mrs Mears, one of 1920's New York's
Chinese "white slavers" in "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
Beatrice once briefly owned the land at the present Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey, which Lois and I visited a few years ago when we were house-sitting for our daughter Alison and family.
22:00 Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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