DefCon 2

I had a very stressful weekend, as you could probably imagine, following my previous entry. Not only had we missed the deadline for getting the 10% house deposit in, we had also not heard anything about it. Usually I work on a no-news-is-good-news basis, but this was definitely not the case.

 

Despite wanting to tear the head off our financial advisors, I was especially angry at myself; I’d assumed that the process would proceed on time, and I blithely left it in the hands of the professionals who I’m paying to get it done – only to get a one-line email on Friday from them (after I’d chased them up several times), telling me that it hadn’t happened.

 

Naturally, there was no-one around on Saturday from the financial advisors or the solicitors, which did my temper no significant benefits, but – after about 2 hours of phoning – I finally got through to someone at the estate agents. They confirmed that it was probably not a major problem & was also not the end of the world, as this apparently happens occasionally.

 

We then got a letter through the door on Sunday from the solicitor confirming this & giving us a new deadline of this Thursday, so I was somewhat mollified. However, I’ve still not been able to get in touch with my contact at the financial planners, so my ‘urge to kill’ is definitely rising. I have (miracle of miracles) spoken to a secretary at the financial firm who told me that the necessary paperwork was sent this morning & should arrive at the solicitors by tomorrow, which would be ok… Overall, we will wait & see if this is the case. If it is not then I’m going to do my Hydrogen Bomb impression.

 

On the other hand, this Friday we’re going to Leeds. I hold out some hope that I’ll be in a slightly better frame of mind by then. And possibly not be in a truly toxic mood.

 

S

The weekends plan - such as it is.

This is a (probably futile) attempt to put some sort of plan together for the weekend, so here we go:

• Friday; arriving late, staying at Allie & Gareths.
• Saturday morning: go to town to shout at banks / go shopping etc
• Saturday lunchtime: go to Fuji Hiros for Saturday lunchtime (1pm-ish)
• Saturday afternoon: The steam bath-plan has been cancelled due to the fact that its apparently insanely busy on Saturdays. It was a hope, but there we go. So the alternative plan is to see if people are around for a boardgame, and then perhaps, maybe, perhaps go into town for a few pints in the evening, just to meet-up & chat & chill.

(I don’t know how likely this is, especially as we're staying at Allie & Gareths, which is some trek away. It would require someone to remain sober... so I don’t know. This might be more of an ambition than anything else. I’ll need to speak with our hosts first, but I’m hoping that they’ll be at Fuji Hiros.)

 

After that, we're tempted by a Sunday lunch, because you just cant get proper Sunday lunches over here. After that, I’m kind-of hoping on spending some time at Grampus’s as our flight is at 5-30pm & his place is conveniently close to the airport & we might be able to prevail upon him for a lift to the airport *hopeful smile*

 

Thats, sort of it. Its not much, but its what we've got.

 

S