...are go!!
1 - Angel Wings
2 - Cocoa
3 - Denim
4 - High Peaks
5 - Beach Walk
I've also made myself some copper green for a necklace and earrings I hope to get finished for Saturday...the wedding we've been invited to. I have the design floating around in the head, but so far...not in reality. The surveyor came this morning, and promises me there's nothing to worry about...but, listening to him making notes on his recorder...why are they always so dire with their opinions, but I have to believe...I mean I know our house isn't too bad, you listen to them and think it's going to fall over next week! One comment was...."it's a strange mix!" It's mid Victorian with two extensions...that's what the other surveys have said, but not this one...we have double thickness brick built internal walls, and he thinks they were at sometime all external...that makes the original house twelve foot square! He also thought we had a combi boiler "you don't have any tanks in the loft, do you?"..."ermmm...yes", I'd just told him we had it installed just before the rules changed and it's an ordinary one. We're still waiting for the fixtures and fittings list, and the searches from the local authority in Norfolk...everything else is dealt with, and the results of the two surveys done here...I also gave myself a present...I bought my sewing machine. I just hope it arrives before the move date!!
...another week after a beautiful weekend. I must admit I'm still nervous, but am trying to clear plans for the move. Think positive...A couple of jobs around the house were done on Saturday, like the piece of skirting that needed replacing...it was tucked behind a cupboard and forgotten...out of sight, out of... Cleaning out the woodburner of all remnants of ash and debris... The continuing of mowing the lawns, and tidying the garden...Yesterday dawned another bright day, and we both felt a restlessness, a what to do sort of day...we've been living in limbo for too long now, and just want the move complete... We took ourselves to Elveden, it's a small village between Newmarket and Thetford, and the estate there have converted their barns and stables into a range of shops and cafe... The shops sell most kitchen wares, house gifts...books, gardening items and plants, plus a good array of home produce, fresh meat, local cheeses...plus the more exotic, and handmade chocolates. We came away with a small cold meat pie, a piece of Suffolk Gold cheese...locally made marmalade and High Dumpsie Dearie jam (plum, apple and pear). I also found a cushion for my new sitting room...cool linen with a small flowery heart on...all soft colours. I now know what I have to do, get myself a new sewing machine, mine died several years ago, and has never been replaced. I used to make so much, but not for too many years now, and I did pick up some beautiful remnants in January, also some of my tapestries need some tlc to renew their life, and some rummage pieces from a friends aunts bits bag will all go together...Our survey came through last week too. You have to look through it with the thought that the main part of the house is four hundred years old, and as long as it isn't falling down, then you're onto a winner. It has some damp in the lower walls, this caused as the original rendering is below the garden level, and has been used as a conduit to seep up, but once that is treated and the new rendering finished above the garden level, it'll be no further problem....we also knew a pair of very old French doors would need replacing, as they have stained glass windows in them and to the sides...they will have to be made and treated with care, and although some of the roofing tiles look as though someone played with them, they don't leak at present... We have discovered there were five periods of building...the original house built 1600's, was two rooms downstairs and a loft, this was then extended to give a third room downstairs, a bedroom upstairs and the loft was converted into living space too. A little after this a lean-to affair was put onto the back of the extension, and then about fifty or so years ago a larger single storey extension put onto the back of that incorporating it, finally about twenty five years ago another single storey was built, this is the second sitting room, with big windows and french doors looking up and through the garden...We also discovered the village is within a tithe hundred to Chancel...but you can now take out an insurance, just in case they call on it. Have we been put off or daunted by all...never! Just excited and nervous with the wait...I have so many ideas spinning around...
...kiln on, torch aglow, glass wrapped...and the post lands on the mat! Okay, a quick pass of glass to kiln and find the post...A letter from our solicitors with questions from our buyers ones...ones that have already been answered, but turning off the torch...making myself a strong cup of tea, I sat to write out detail by detail all the answers, and draw them a little plan of our plot. Deciding then I might as well stop, go shopping and take the completed letter to town...there went another day! That was yesterday...today I've had one surveyor here, for the valuation...we wait to see what he decides...our survey report arrived too, and when read is nothing unexpected, you buy something four hundred years old and there's bound to be one or two things to do! Tomorrow I have Mrs Buyer coming, she wants to measure up and check what's staying or going against the list we've already supplied. Our agent is hoping we might be all moved at the end of May...I think it'll probably be June, but the earlier the better for us.I think the weekend is free...strangely. We've had some busy ones recently, and another busy one the bank holiday one...a wedding and the last game of the season...Then, next Tuesday another surveyor visits, this one is the main one...I'm always nervous, I know my house isn't falling down or anything, but I still get nervous!After that the lady whose house we're buying is off to the Ukraine for a holiday...maybe she'll sign something before she goes................Sorry, I've just seen a funny...silly...sight...a neighbour who runs...a lot, just passed the front in his tee and shorts, lighting a cigarette...well, such is life...Which reminds me, anyone running the London marathon this Sunday...good luck...you're a better person than me!
