At last - this is the one! The seventh house that my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I have seen in the Liphook/Grayshott /Haslemere area of Hampshire/Surrey. We make an offer through the estate agent and it gets accepted, so fingers crossed it will all go smoothly, and we can go back to leading our normal lives, which will be relief. Our daughter Alison, who lives only 5 miles from here, has done sterling work driving us around to look at properties and giving us her opinions - also valuable, to put it mildly.
we approach our chosen new house - the one straight
ahead with the carport and the car on the driveway
James, a nice young lad from the estate agency, shows the three of us round.
The house is detached with four bedrooms and a garage plus car-port, in Liphook, near to a nice park. and only about half a mile's walk, on the level, if we want to leave the car at home and make our way to the town centre shops. And we'll have plenty of room for all our "stuff", and also it'll be no problem putting up guests, or putting up our daughter Sarah and family every time they visit the UK from their new home 9000 miles away, in Perth, Australia, so - in a word - "problem sorted". Phew!
our twin granddaughters Jessica and Lily, in Perth, Australia,
getting ready for Halloween tomorrow evening
It's a really modern house, in mine and Lois's old eyes at least (!), with even an extractor fan that emerges like a alien monster from the middle of the kitchen's island worktop: what madness!
There's a lovely big living-room, fifty shades of grey like the rest of the house.
Upstairs, there are massive mirrors at the end of where our double bed would go, which is not what we'd choose, but at least the mirror is broken up a bit into sections, which is a help - but what madness (again) !!!!
And there's a nice long garage where we can store a bunch of things, including excess kitchen appliances etc.
There's a nice garden just the right size, mainly just lawn, so low maintenance.
So not much more to do now - just do all the legal stuff, move our stuff from Malvern the 120 miles or so to Liphook, and then - oh I nearly forgot - we've got to sell our old house in Malvern too, haven't we (!).
Then maybe we can get back to our normal lives, do you think????
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
At least Lois and I can relax in the evening today in Ali and Ed's crumbling Victorian mansion in Headley, and watch a bit of "telly" with our daughter Alison, seen here on one of the family's many sofas, in the company of the latest addition to the family's menagerie of dog, 2 cats and a tank of tropical fish: yes, it's Bjørn, a young spaniel only a few months old, and "puppyish" like nobody's business.
Poor Bjørn !!!!!!
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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