Sometimes life works out

Lovely when it all comes together as you would like it too - will you be needing most things new or have you a lot in the container? Happy days sorting and arranging ahead --- plus the biggest bonus of all - lots of cuddles from little people!

...and did you say something absent

What has this to do with the op?

I think my mother willing her half of the house to me worked out reasonably well as my wife died and it enabled me to sell my house and move in with Dad to care for him in his final years even though I came a half rather than a full house owner.
I was retired early about the same time.

The only annoying thing was when my father's ex wanted me and Andie to leave and I was bombarded by people wanting me to give the house to her straight after my father died.

Frank

I have had lots of fun today, in spite of disliking shopping. I have bought a fridge and a freezer, two room heaters, three chopping boards, three hot water bottles and a dining table and eight chairs. I have also paid the agent's fee (plus tax) and the bond on the house. It's all coming together.

So pleased for you Absent

Piece!!! tired!

Thanks Galen. My dictionaries are all in the big tin box on the ship on the ocean and I was too lazy to google.

It's actual a movable pice of property

A wife is a chattel in some cultures

glass The goods and chattels - what exactly is a chattel? - are due in Nelson Port on 12 July. I haven't yet checked whether the ship is on schedule. It can then take a couple of weeks or more for unloading and customs clearance, so we are reckoning on moving in at the end of this month. [fingers crossed emoticon]

I am arranging for the cats to travel at the beginning of August. They then will then have to do 10 days quarantine in Christchurch in a rather more luxurious cattery than their present feline boot camp, before we can collect them and taken them to their new home.

Today, I am going on a spree to buy a fridge and freezer - I have already got the shop to reduce the price by $200 for the pair - and a kitchen bin. Be still my beating heart!

absent..am very happy for you!

P.S. about luck, seem to remember reading up about luck. Psychologists reckon that so called 'lucky people' get no more breaks than the average person, its just they have a 'glass half full' mentality and seem to be able to forget more of the negative events in their lives.

P.S.S. saw a sign in a shop today (honest)
it went something along the lines of....

'All that worrying does work, 99 % of all the stuff I've been worrying about did not happen!'

If anyone deserves it, absent it is you! I am so happy to hear all this, and send you (hugs)

absent it's surprising how often 'good luck' accompanies hard work, good organisational skills and perseverance.

Just enjoy the good luck! No reason why you should not land 'butter side up'!

Sounds like life in NZ will be good for you. for you and have one for me!

Of course you deserve it! Good luck with your new home!

I'm so glad everything is falling into place for you and you are so near the little ones,think of the TV advert sweetie when it states "because I'm worth it" and go from there.

Sounds marvellous, absent. Of course you deserve to fall on your feet and won't it be a great introduction to NZ for your cats.

I'm glad for you, absent. When things work out, it's usually because we've tried so hard to make it that way. Your DGC's will love to have you where you are, so get stuck in to the veggie growing and get even more satisfaction from your new abode - even when the newly-arrived moggies start digging up your brassicas !

it sounds perfect.

Glad it's all working out well Absent. I was thinking about you and how brave you were when I was out in the garden at 6.30 this morning hoying the weeds out.
Hope you will be celebrating with lots of NZ

Great news absent! So good that everything is falling neatly into place

That sounds such a good spot you have picked - when do you move in?

That is wonderful news absent, I'm so pleased things have worked out well for you.

It's got nothing to do with deserving either, if everyone got what they 'deserved' the world would be a very different place.

& for you, enjoy those grandchildren

Good news absent you will soon make that house your home!