- Moving house without moving a thing.. -I guess firstly I should apologise to the people who read this for the extreme delay even by my standards in updating here. For those of you who don't already know, I recently took the plunge of attempting to confirm my 'maturity' and growth by buying a house. The house in question is a typical first buy for anyone of my age group living in the North of England; a mid-terrace with some work to do. After weeks/a month or two of gleaming over a disproportionate level of figures, projections and budget drafts we finally posted the whole package off to the solicitors last week to be registered and completed. Whilst this is not the complete picture as to why I am so late posting again here it is part of the cause for delay, and admitting plain laziness doesn't sound as good.
There are primarily two reasons why we have decided to buy rather than rent. Firstly, (and most significantly) the mortgage repayments surprisingly worked out a lot cheaper than it would have cost us to rent (over £100), for which we will -albeit slowly- gain some capital and place an unsteady foot on the first rung of an even more unstable property ladder. Secondly, the house recently belonged to my late-grandfather, and so we were fortunate to be able to get a good deal from my father enabling us to reach an agreement and purchase. Whilst I strongly believe that sentiments should never be a blind to practicalities and harsh realities -particularly those of the financial nature- it is nonetheless somewhat calming to already know the history of the property, at least up to 50 years ago.
There is however a lot of work to do. Unfortunately given his poor health in his latter years my Grandfather was unable to do much in the way of renovation and decoration, which therefore leaves the job to the new inhabitants: us. After removing roughly 37 layers of paper, paint, plaster, and further paper we have finally been able to re-decorate the majority of the front room this week. Progress is naturally slow given our complete lack of experience, but it's getting there slowly. Thanks for Easter holidays!
I will try and chronicle the renovation here as best I can, though given my recent ineptness to post even a modest update for the last few months don't hold your collective breaths for any hint of consistency in such postings.. I can however begin to chronicle Bec's 'Accident Prone Princess' moments given she has already sustained multiple mini injuries and 'blonde moments':
001 - Cut hand while scraping off wallpaper
002 - Cut other hand while scraping off wallpaper
003 - Cut first hand again scraping wallpaper
004 - Sat on wallpaper paste
We are also getting a cat soon as well, so I've posted a picture of the cat food we bought purely based on the hilarious box. Anyhow, a happy Easter to all.
Sandlefish
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