I bought a new phone last week and ported my number across. Unfortunately new phone has not arrived due to the snow and now my SIM card is inactive. So if you need to get hold of me for the next couple of days please do it through Dan.

PS We have about 6 inches of snow and the main road is closed - snow day! xxx

Just two days until we get the keys and I'm getting pretty excited ( Read more... )

It's official - the contract for our house is sitting on the doormat at home, we exchange next week and complete the week after ( Read more... )

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After nearly 4 weeks of massive stress, disappointment and being thoroughly messed around I'm really pleased to announce that we have a mortgage and will be buying this house!

It has been a complete nightmare and I know that really we're only just beginning the process. Although I don't think that it will be easy from now on the first hurdle has ( Read more... )

Just finished Series 1 of Heroes on DVD last night. I absolutely loved it and would highly recommend it to anyone who's not seen it already. I had to fight tooth and nail to persuade Dan to even watch it in the first place due to his adament opinion that it was going to be 'Americanised bollocks'. But we were seriously impressed and can't wait to ( Read more... )

As you can probably imagine, the rest of our holiday was rather subdued after the car drama. Despite poor Dan having stealth whiplash we still managed a very enjoyable stroll round Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and marvelled at the wonderfully old fashioned natural history museum there which has been going since the 1930s ( Read more... )

We're on holiday this week and as such had decided to travel to Leamington Spa (to see my sister), Nottingham (just because I'd never been there) and Peterborough (to see Dan's dad and for my cousin's wedding).

Yesterday, all was going swimmingly until about 12 miles outside Nottingham two boy racer idiots decided to slam on the brakes for fun, two ( Read more... )

 I passed my first year! And am very pleased to have got three distinctions and two merits overall.

xxx

Am just coming to the end of a fantastic week off although it feels like I've been away from work for an age.

Last Saturday we drove up to Oswestry to help my uncle celebrate his 70th birthday. My uncle David is completely awesome - he's a retired headteacher who now spends his time repairing country stiles, fixing the Welshpool to Llangollen steam ( Read more... )