5th March 2012

So we have entered a period of calm. Dont get me wrong I still have a ton of stuff going round in my head, will the survery be Ok, will the buyer change their mind etc etc, but now we have nothing much to do apart from wait for solicitors and surveyors to do what they have to do and sign anything they need us to.

No more viewings or stressing because no one is coming for a viewing, constantly keeping the house tidy in case someone comes to look at short notice, life is peaceful again, well for a while anyway.

For the 3rd time we took passports and utility bill to be checked, this time by Agent 3 who had sold our property. Helen went in and was chatting to them and telling them about house prices where we were moving to, 3 bedroom houses comparable to 2 bedroom flats in London. She said the girl in the office jaw dropped when she heard the difference.

Was waiting for the Agents to confirm the our buyer had sorted out a solicitor. At 4.30 they rang to say they had spoken to him, he had got a quote from one solicitor but was waiting for another quote before deciding. This is frustrating as the Agent cannot put out the letters until he confirms his solicitor. Also the survey will not be until at least next week as he is not going back into the Nationwide until Saturday to discuss this with them.

This is a different type of stress now from when we were looking for a buyer. All the time that goes on now is time that, if this deal falls through, we have lost working towards our end of May deadline. There is nothing we can do, we have to wait, he is a school teacher so works long hours as well and we are going to have to be patient. Our agent assures us that they believe he is honest and wants to buy our house but the next 2 or 3 weeks could be very long indeed. I am fairly sure that once we buy up in Kings Lynn I will not be putting myself through this again.

Still at least we have Kirsty’s 8^th Birthday coming up to distract us from this. Cannot believe she is 8 this Friday. She has a school trip to London Zoo as well on the day and then on Sunday it is bowling and Pizza Hut.

Craig had his 2^nd Mathss GCSE exam today, now we wait for the results from that. Hoping that he can get a C and then retake in Summer, knowing he has a C and maybe turn it into a B.

Having done some packing already by putting away the things we really do not use that often, we are in pretty good shape, but I am resisting starting anymore until we have exchanged contracts. Dreading doing the shed, so much stuff I have kept thinking "that might be useful one day", I think we might need to order a skip.

Mum and Dad were sorting out with us things for when we stay with them, clearing draws for us to use and where we will sleep. The one daunting thing for me is that mum wants me to do all the meals. It is difficult doing 3 different meals for us let alone add another couple in. Not too bad doing the cooking but it is just the weighing out of weight watchers meals that we have, although if they are happy to have what we have then most recipes are for 4 people so should not be too bad.