At last I have my course pack and have started my first two Interior Design assignments. By golly, there's a lot of work. Around 12 pieces of work for two assignments, and two assignments every month. I'm about a month behind on my schoolwork because of the fiasco with the postal service so I will finish my course at the end of March - although I'm ( Read more... )

Dan has visited our sellers a couple of times recently. They are a nice young couple and are always pleased to see him. He had to go round to the maisonette the other week to measure up for the piano. We needed to know a) whether we could get it up the narrow stairwell and b) whether it would fit in the alcove to the right of the fireplace in the ( Read more... )

Last week, John pulled out of the purchase of the maisonette for Dan and I and sent us in search of another! The other turned out to be a way better deal for only £2,000 more on the same street, and a bigger garden too! It is a first floor maisonette and is decorated beautifully. There are hardly any repairs needed on the property, unlike the other ( Read more... )

Dan has won a beautiful, ostentatious ring for me on Ebay for just a tenner. It's a Britney Spears replica and it's perfect with a big pink stone. We're having an Ebay wedding, didn't you know?!

Catherine.

Last night Dan and I returned to London from a great weekend in the Cotswolds ( Read more... )

Earlier this week Dan and I viewed a maisonette in Isleworth, Middx, only a few blocks a way from Dan's old family home. Lots of smart houses and leafy streets, in a nice neighbourhood. It is a small but spacious 2 bedroom ground floor property owned by an English lady called Sophie and her Sri Lankan boyfriend, and they had a nice little Buddhist ( Read more... )

Last Friday Dan and I visited the south-west for the weekend, in celebration of his 35th birthday and our first anniversary of meeting ( Read more... )

On Saturday Dan and I viewed 4 houses, and we have fixed up 2nd viewings for the first and the third properties ( Read more... )

Finally, Dan's father has had a firm offer on his house. If all goes to plan, he will exchange in 4 weeks' time and hopes to complete two months following. He told Dan and I to go househunting. We have a budget of $400,000 to spend and are viewing a couple of two-bed houses in Middlesex/Surrey on Saturday - one in Hounslow and another in the ( Read more... )

I arrived at Dan's place at 4pm on Friday, following a very hot drive down from the Midlands ( Read more... )