So the call finally came in….
“Hi Robert, just to let you know I have had a call with the sellers solicitor ten minutes ago and all the paperwork has arrived so we have transfered the funds and completed so you are free to pick up the keys this afternoon”
Why is this significant? Well after a change of personal circumstances, I had been living in rented accommodation on a lovely farm. It had allowed me to clear my head and move forward and I had settled on the idea of somewhere rural after 30 years of hiving in big citys or heavily residential areas.
I wanted a large property to be a new “family hub” where my children could come and visit, the future grand children have space to run around the garden and I had enough workshop space to pursue my current hobbies and any future one!
This was all happening in the middle of the Covid Pandemic where people were working from home so I now had 3 weeks to get the following sorted:
- Get broadband installed ASAP so when I was at the new place waiting for deliveries I was able to work
- Order all of my white goods
- Order all of my matressess and bedding
- Arrange for all of the furniture I had bought to be delivered
- Do a Christmas food shop as I had 4 people now over for Christmas dinner
So on Friday 4th December at 16:00 I picked up the keys, drove the half mile to the house from the estate agents. I wanted to do something I would remember as this was the start of a new journey for me but also deep down (and OK their will be a lot of you reading this thinking your bloody stupid) I had an underlying apprehension that with the house being over 250 years old and being an old coaching in, their was a high probably that someone had met an unsavoury death their in the late 1800’s!
I want to put a rocking chair at the end of the hall but I am convinced that one night I will get up for a wee and find it rocking itself. SO as I walk through the door and entered the beautiful front room, I just said out loud “thank you for letting my buy this house, I think I’m going to be very happy here”.
It probably didn’t do anything but if their was anything kicking around I hope they know that I’m friendly and just want to have a nice life at Glan Gors.