I have been heard to state that there is not much that can’t be improved by bacon. So today we had Bacon & Co estate agents round to see if finding someone to live in our house could be improved by Bacon 🙂
It looks like it might actually. They do sales and lettings and as we don’t need the equity out of the house for the first year we have been debating renting it out again and living off the monthly rent for the year, thus protecting the equity and giving us a year to decide that it is definitely the right move for us before investing financially. There are pros and cons but given the house has not sold in the first month I think renting it again may well be the best option.
This morning I sorted through the clothes at this house and put them all into various bags. I still have more clothes than anyone else despite having gotten rid of *loads* but at least all the remaining clothes fit me. Some are older than both children (tops, not bottoms) and it means I won’t have to buy any more clothes for years :). I hung some washing out and drank lots of tea.
Ady did some more research into generators and between us we worked on a list of things still to do which was heartening as we realised we do have everything in hand. We rang Lance to ask him to look out for a 4×4 for us and made a failed bid on a trailer on ebay (that ended up selling an hour later for just £20 more. Grr).
Davies and Scarlett played outside in the garden, they wanted to go further afield but fear of someone spotting them and being nosey made us refuse. I hate that but am so very aware that unaccompanied children on a school day would draw attention. Attention that should it be followed up would result in all sorts of concerns for children who are currently living ‘rough’ in a house that is officially empty. We consoled them with the fact that a month today is provisional static delivery day so we should be sleeping in our new home on our new land for the first time a month today, with a whole island to explore and no prying eyes. We experimented with the four walkie talkies we have which are supposed to have a radius coverage of several miles. Very funny having four way conversations 🙂
The agent came and quoted his terms for both rental and sales, advised us on expected prices for both and gave us the benefit of his estate agenty wisdom. I rang him back later and the letting division are coming round tomorrow to start marketing it. So landlordiness may yet continue…
In other news we went to the tip again, went to my parents again and sorted out yet more stuff to be gotten rid of. Another six boxes to be dropped off at a charity shop tomorrow. We are now down to about 2 boxes to be sold (which we’ll give one punt on ebay / local free ad paper and then take to charity shop), a bed full of boxes that need condensing down more to store at mum & dad’s (mostly photo albums and home videos), about 10 boxes of stuff to come with us to Rum and a huge heap of stuff destined for Caz and Bid. The other three are not finding this process quite as liberating as me but I seem to recall that being the case last time.
I spent some time catching up with Julie on the phone tonight. Maisie isn’t well so we may not catch up with them in person this week but we have at least had a filling in session with each other on all our news.
Tonight we got my very first laptop (the one that got knocked off the arm of the sofa and nearly died) working and watched a Hugh Denis thing about the Highlands which was very good with Loch Ness, Chanonry Point, Skye and Applecross all featured. Nice visual reminder of why we’re doing all this 🙂
Tomorrow we’re going to a car auction. Exciting times 🙂