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Moving in Day

Posted on April 25, 2016July 23, 2018 by ouradmin

Today is the day the furniture arrives from storage, the guys turned up at 9.30 am, worked hard and got all our stuff into the new house. Highly recommend Moores of Launceston, they did a great job.

Second Temporary Accommodation

Posted on April 8, 2016July 23, 2018 by ouradmin

A Wonderful Barn conversion on a farm just 3 miles from where we are moving to. Lambing time on the farm and our 2 year old Daughter is beside herself with excitement. So peaceful, dark sky’s, lovely views and best of all…. no traffic noise. Thanks to Helpful Holidays for arranging a longer term booking.

First Temporary Accommodation

Posted on March 7, 2016July 23, 2018 by ouradmin

A lovely bungalow in East Devon, peaceful and great views. Thanks to Sweetcombe Cottage Holidays for allowing a longer term let.

Moving out… Completion Day

Posted on March 7, 2016July 19, 2018 by ouradmin

After living in Chippenham since we got married in 2004 the day has come when we will be leaving and moving to Cornwall (via temporary accommodation for 8 weeks). All of our belongings are boxed up, Cats safely in the cattery, Kids off to school and now we have to wait for the removal company and hopefully the money to be transferred. One Lorry and a Van arrived at 10am, the guys got stuck in, everything loaded by just after midday. Phone call from Solicitors to say the money had all transferred and the sale had completed ok. Thats it,

Cats off to the Cattery

Posted on February 26, 2016July 23, 2018 by ouradmin

Putting the cats into the cattery is a good idea so they don’t get distressed while he box everything up, then they can come to the new house once we have sorted a lot of it out. As we will be in holiday accommodation for 8 weeks they need to stay for a long time. They have been there before so the owner knows them. We can highly recommend : Just Cats Boarding Cattery just outside of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. Gonna miss the little monkeys but its best for them.

Back in the market for a house

Posted on January 4, 2016 by ouradmin

House purchase fell through, lots of small problems with it that might add up to one headache. Off to review a few that we dismissed just in case and maybe find some more. Bad time of the year, not much coming one the market but we have sold ours and don’t want to loose our buyer.

House found, offer made

Posted on October 24, 2015 by ouradmin

and accepted…. now on with all of the paperwork.

3 Properties to see today….

Posted on October 10, 2015July 12, 2017 by ouradmin

First of all today a 6 Bedroom Bungalow, very nice but lots of road noise and possible flooding issues. Not for us. Second, a nice bungalow with some land and stunning views. We need a guest room / play room and this house would need to be extended, assuming we could get planning permission it would be too small to move straight into. Did not see next property, run out of time and found out that the land next to it hand planning for a lot of new houses. Not for us…

Our house sold in 2 days

Posted on September 24, 2015July 12, 2017 by ouradmin

Houses in Chippenham seem to sell quite quickly, we knew this and were holding out until we found one to purchase. Some of the estate agents in Devon and Cornwall do not seem to take you seriously unless your own house in on the market or already sold, maybe this is due to houses taking a long time to sell in Devon. So, we put our house on the market on Tuesday afternoon, cleared up all the kids toys and waited for the first viewing on the Thursday. First viewing over, they made an offer of the full asking price.

Mortgage Sorted

Posted on September 19, 2015July 19, 2018 by ouradmin

Mortgage Agreed in principle so we now know how much we can spend, and how long we need to work for to pay it off. Thanks to FX Mortgages and Nationwide Building Society