Where stuff did actually start to fall back into place again.
Ady rang the letting agent who said they were waiting for the tenants deposit to be transfered and as soon as that was done they would start drawing up paperwork. We decided to cancel the bathroom flooring being fitted on Friday just in case.
This morning we called over to Mum & Dad’s hoping to collect the proof of NCD form which had been requested on 3rd April so should be there and our driving licences. And found neither. The place I assumed the driving licences would be did not contain them. As I had no memory of actually seeing them to pack them we assumed they must be back at our house instead so came back again.
They were not.
I then spent ages on the phone trying to get the NCD proof from previous insurers, I rang the broker, the actual insurance company – twice! The first time I got through to an answerphone message giving an email address and a fax number for sending stationery orders to and no matter which numbers I pressed I couldn’t get back to a real person. I finally got through to someone who said it had been requested already and would be on it’s way. I asked how long that might take and was told 10 days, which I explained would be a problem as my new insurer was threatening to cancel the policy if they didn’t get the NCD proof within seven days! The guy promised to email me the proof this afternoon.
We had lunch and the agent rang to say the tenants have paid the deposit and would like to move in 27 or 28th April – perfect 🙂 In time to pay next months mortgage and the first installment of paying Dad back what we’re borrowing from him.
I’d collected our seed stash from allotmenting days from my parents to take inventory and draw up a ‘what we still need’ list so did that. Am thinking of contacting a couple of seed companies to see if they are up for sponsoring us with a few packets in return for trialling them and writing a review.
We went back over to Dad’s via the big pet shop to cost out puppy stuff – collar, lead, food and water bowls, toys.. we spent ages trying to work out whether we need both a carrier for the car (which will only really be used the once) *and* a crate to be it’s home within the static / bed / space to retire to. I suspect we probably do just because I think the size crate we’ll need long term won’t fit in the boot of the Pajero. Actually have now been proper googling and reckon if a 30inch crate will fit in the boot then that’s what we’ll go for, it’ll certainly do for the journey, be a back up travel crate and if the dog gets too big we can order a larger one later rather than have two now.
Over at Dad’s Ady went to rummage for the driving licences and produced them at the exact same time as I got an email through with the NCD proof. Hurrah!
We ordered the generator while at Dad’s. On it’s way to us now, £1200 worth of shiny red electricity provision 🙂
Dad gave us the cheque for the balance on the static and a cheque to pay for the bathroom flooring and we totted up what we’ve borrowed already and what we’ll need for the next few weeks (diesel, ferry crossing, dog, hostel, big food and other essentials shop). Very pleased we have a tenant and will be making a start on paying him back 🙂
We waited to see Mum when she got in from work and arranged to go over there Sunday afternoon / evening to load up the horse box and say our goodbyes. They are planning a visit end of June / beginning of July so it’s not too long before we’ll see them. Will have to cross the bridge of quite how we manage their visit when we get to it…
Home for dinner – I’d employed more foresight this evening and made pizza dough before we went out so it was a nice speedy dinner rather than last night’s very late Goddard o’clock eating. After much toing and froing I organised an evening out tomorrow and have spent a long time this evening googling to learn about puppies, training and other dog related stuff.
Maisie has never travelled in a pet carrier in the car – it makes her really anxious and thrn she gets sick. If you have a spare seat belt a much cheaper option for the journey would be a harness that the dog wears and the seat belt is threaded through. It also means that someone is right there to comfort her if she is at all distressed.
Comment by Joyce — 12 April 2012 @ 7:17 am