If I was superstitious I’d come up with something predicting good news and all round cheer for tomorrow, but suspect Mystic Meg has nothing to worry about in the way of competition from me and my fortune telling skills 😉
Scarlett’s sleep pattern seems retored to normal thankfully. Slightly less thankfully she is noisy in the morning so she woke me before 8am today to ask how to spell SPOT for a DS game. Then her and Davies were rowdy in his room despite several requests to be quiet.
I rang the letting agent to confirm a viewing later today and we had a fairly quiet morning watching TV and talking about house renting. I wouldn’t let the kids get much out so after lunch they did some drawing at the table while I tidied around them, lit the fire (I thought as it was both listed and photographed on the web marketing I should show it in action) and resisted the temptation to bake bread and brew coffee.
Sadly 15 minutes after they were supposed to arrive the letting agent knocked on the door to say it didn’t look like they were coming – I’d seen him pull up a good 10 minutes before the appointed time. He came in for a look round as he’d not been to the house before, it was his partner who has been previously. No idea why they didn’t turn up obviously and sadly it is the second false start – it would be quite nice for someone to actually come and look round the house at least, even if they don’t end up renting it! We still have a couple of weeks to get someone sorted to allow everything to happen as scheduled and I’m really confident we will have someone ready to move in for 1st March, but just not signed up in time for us to hand our notices in at work and be off by then. I’m torn between a que sera sera feeling and knots of anxiety that it’s not all going as planned.
I did some twittering and emailing companies to see if anyone wants to supply us waterproofs etc in return for reviews / mentions on the blog. Will carry on with a couple of those a day being at least something I do have control over (stamps foot in childish manner).
Davies and I did some knitting, him doing the knit rows and me the purl rows. We’ve finished the front (or back I guess) of the head. I suspect I will need to do lots of ‘encouraging reminding’ to get it done but I’m impressed with his picking up of the skill. Scarlett did plenty of looking at books and then they both played with the Playmobil for a while.
The kids had tea, I marvelled at how light it still was at 430 and the kids and I had a discussion about what we might have learnt today. This led to them asking some questions and us finding the answers out together online. I prefer the days when we learn something new just in the course of our day but sometimes making a conscious effort to think of a question we don’t know the answer to and then finding it out works too. Ady arrived home and we shared our bad, good and learnt today:
Scarlett: Bad: Daddy worked today & I’ve missed him, Good: watched lots of wildlife stuff on TV: Learnt: giraffes tongues are 45cm long and their hind legs are shorter than their forelegs.
Davies: Bad: I didn’t get to watch Pirates of the Carribean, Good: Completed first piece of knitting, Learnt: Tomato ketchup has loads of ingredients including vinegar and pepper and tomato puree is concentrated tomatoes.
Ady: Bad: Tenant viewing didn’t turn up. Good: Productive and positive day at work. Learnt: when you fold up a napkin or piece of cardboard to balance an uneven table leg you have made something called a ‘shim’
Nic: Bad: Ady stole my bad! Also car still not working, Good: Four chickens rehoming arranged. Learnt: that Davies is the sixth most common surname in the UK and that almost all animals exhibit homosexual behaviour, in particular giraffes!
Argh – what a pain 🙁 I was hearing the other day that in 75% of the country there aren’t enough rental properties to meet the needs of renters so thought your place would be snapped up 🙁 Am sure someone will take it, but yes, must be anxiety-inducing as your dates get nearer 🙁
Comment by Alison — 11 January 2011 @ 8:44 am
I guess, if we take the Christmas & New Year close down out of the equation it has only been up for rent for 2 weeks. It’s the need to give notice at work which is causing anxiety really, if we didn’t need to worry about that I would have no concerns about finding a tenant before March 1st.
Comment by Nic — 11 January 2011 @ 10:23 am