gone.

The house is sold. And you only have to drop the price by ooh 45k on market value these days.

But all is not lost. Because Mr PR is a 'don't mess with me' kind of guy - the complicated deal (well, I thought it was I wanted to focus on all the new things I will 'need') which we (he) struck with the developer of our new house, was, shall we say, pushing it a bit.

1. Pay our stamp duty
2 Pay our estate agent fees
3. Don't bother us with negotiations etc so yes please get whoever you like to market it
4. We want a good price from you
5. We know you'll have to sell it for alot less and take a hit
6. We'd like you to pay the legal stuff
7. Oh and carpets please
8. Nice bit of turf wouldn't go amiss actually...
9. Erm that's all for now - ooh nearly forgot we want to be in by october so get cracking.
10. Sorry, there is one more thing - you need to take 10k off your market price on the new house.

I thought it was cheeky.

But it worked and I can now focus on curtains and feng shui while Mr PR continues on a roll and gets an astonishing mortgage deal etc.

So we're off.

Bye bye Mrs Prosser 2 doors down who wants to stab us for undercutting her but for whom I have no sympathy since she accused Charlie of being a bully (he is many things - a bully isn't one of them)

Bye bye busy road, annoying man next door with old ford capri fetish that I'm tired of seeing

Bye bye Matilda....you bring in one more sodding robin redbreast and you don't get to bagsy a new bedroom.

I'm not kidding on this!!!

Good news today on the animal front - no real interventions other than a wasp which chanced its arm on my foot and got squashed shortly afterwards (accidentally I confess I am a bit of a pseudo buddhistso was upset about this)

back to the feng shui.

maybe we need some kind of chicken run/aviary.