johnny9fingers | Entries tagged with house hunting

Still house hunting.

Last weekend I 'de-cluttered' my study so those without imagination could see that it makes a small bedroom, suitable for either a young child, or maybe a housemaid. Someone made a desultory offer on the house. In the politest possible way we told them it was insufficient.

We saw a few houses yesterday, and have a few more to see during the week.

Apropos of nothing, I wonder how Auberon Waugh would have viewed our present coalition government? Or for that matter Peregrine Worsthorne? Francis Wheen might have an idea.

Madame has been glued to the rain-washed-out golf. I, on the other hand, have never been a fan of the Scottish Game. The Kid Bro' plays a bit, it must be said: but my idea of games always leant towards the indoor variety. In fact I used to have commendations for my skills at indoor games: oh to be young again.

Before golden October declines to sombre November we have to either sell, or decide to stay put. Never mind, these soft October nights will offer some small chance of viewing: and there is always the weekend.

Tuesday evening I rehearsed with the function band prior to our gig on Friday night. This had been rescheduled from Sunday evening. It was irritating because I'd been offered a freebie to go and see Spurs play Arsenal in the Carling Cup, but I hadn't picked up a guitar in three weeks so....
Anyway the boss had booked us in at a place called Arch Studios.

www.archstudios.co.uk/Location.html

I got there early ('cause I'm like that) only to find the Rehearsal Studio was full of those plug-in perfume dispensers that cause my asthma to start. It was so pervasive and strong I ran out of the door and coughed my lungs up and almost had to go home. Eventually they found one room without the aforementioned lung destroyers which I think must be much worse for people than tobacco smoke, but alas against which there is no legislation. I am reminded of Pubs that have replaced tobacco smoke with candle fumes: candle smoke, to my mind is at least as bad on the lungs, if not worse than tobacco smoke: but that could just be the nature of my particular allergies. I have no problems with tobacco whatsoever.

Yesterday we saw nine houses, one of which is a good possible. More research needed.

Also yesterday our Estate Agents showed a prospective buyer around our house.

The prospective buyer left muddy footprints on our upstairs carpet and left a greasy residue on the dining room dresser. Oh joy. Madame was just this side of furious. Then to cap it all, we found out that our house had been put up on the Estate Agent's website at what the Agent had called the pre-marketing price: which was not according to the agreement SWMBO had signed.

Madame's joy knew no bounds, as you can imagine. Oh well, such things are sent to try us.

So the house is on the market. It looks like SWMBO will have dropped a couple of thou on the house: we'll be lucky to get 495K. All the houses we're looking at cost about 700K (+/- 50k).

According to the Estate Agents we have about 6 weeks window before the market shuts down for Christmas.
Tomorrow Madame has taken a day off and her parents are coming down from St Neot's, then we're looking at 8 houses in the area between Dulwich and Camberwell. Bliss. My cup doth overflow.

On another note, in the past I have been able to force myself to do things I would not normally consider: like climb mountains, have sex with the wrong people, try out strange and dangerous drugs, etc....So how come, fourteen months off fifty, I can't make myself practice my guitar? I look at it, take it off its stand, read about guitar, advise other people on the instrument, think about it....but when it comes to doing practice it is just beyond my powers of concentration or application.

I wonder, has the time come to put down the instrument, if not for good, then at least for an appreciable period?

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Oh damn, still in this dream.

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