Well, contrary to what we had previously thought, exchanging and completing wasn’t half as exciting as we thought. The solicitor called at about 9.30am and told me all the funds were ready, and that he would be completing any second now. Well, that was a bit of an anti-climax if ever there was one!
So, I (Henry) then spent the rest of the morning waiting for the new Futon to be delivered, after which I was able to go down to the (useless) Estate Agents to collect the Key. We’ve just got back from looking round the flat again to check what needs doing before we go back later this evening with Sara’s mum, and it’s all looking good. The electricity works, as does the water and gas. We can’t figure out how to open the garage yet, but since we couldn’t get up on to the curb anyway, it won’t matter for a while!
Later on in the day we took Susan and Claire to see the flat, and then received our first tiny visitor – no, not a rat, a William! Accompanied by Ben and Katy of course. Note the bottom photo – six (plus the photopgrapher) people in our kitchen – wouldn’t have been even close to possible in our old place. Roll on the parties…
