Help calm me. House buying and selling stress

Very pretty! Surely if drainage is good the white gravel wouldn't green up?

Or this.

A bit like this.

Thank you for the heads-up on the discoloration of white pebbles. Slate sounds a better alternative. I was somehow trying to achieve a contrast between the slabs and the gravel. Back to the drawing board.

Afternoon all, I'm still feeling a bit 'lockdown' glum, great to read all your news.

I hope your daughter's dog responds to the antibiotics loopyloo, best wishes for his recovery. My son's tortoise has a respiratory infection at the moment and has had to go back to the vet's yet again. Apparently it is now discouraged to allow them to hibernate.

I've just got back from the beach walk and shops, had to buy salt for the dishwasher. I just use it once a week, I've just got enough plates/cutlery to do it.

Your 'stone' choices reminds me of one of my most scary 'Mother' moments Ellianne. I used to get home with the children about 6.00 pm (work then collect from nursery/after school club) and one sunny night as we got onto the front path they asked if they could 'wet the pebbles' . I think they were aged 2 and 4 - and I should have known better - but I told them to stay exactly where they were and ran in to get the kettle. When I got back my daughter was alone - and I could hear my son calling Mummy in a muffled way. My heart leapt out of my chest as I saw a car driving off, and I thought he was in the boot. I ran along the road after it but it was too fast for me. I ran back to my daughter in a state of terror and she said 'Mummy, Jonny wants some toilet paper'. Little sod had
left her and gone upstairs to the toilet! Taught me a lesson!!!

I have been following the 'election' and have found it very disturbing, I'm not going to watch any more.

Enjoy your evening, hopefully without war like bangs

We are out of isolation and back in moving house mode.
Viewers due here in an hour and we are viewing a bungalow tomorrow.

Loopylo- hope your little dog gets better soon
Craftyone- thank you for starting this thread. I started reading it to learn more about the English house buying and selling ways and realised how lucky we were when we moved to London from Glasgow. The house we bought was empty after the tenants moved out and from offer to completion it took 6 weeks. It needed to be gutted but that was ok with us as it gave us a house exactly as we wanted it.
Spice- that house looks lovely. Hope it works out but if it doesn’t then the right house will come along soon.
Whiff and Franbern - you both have found your ‘HappyPlace.
Shandy- you are almost there too.
I shall look forward to still reading everyone’s posts in the future.

Craftyone Best wishes. Sorry to hear you are leaving. I enjoy your posts, especially this thread on house moves.

Loopyloo hope your dog gets better soon.
Ellianne my daughter has grey slate chippings in her front garden they look lovely all year round.

Did my final bit of gardening this morning. Put in the last of my bulbs and got the leaves off the plants they were covering. Left some under shrubs as mulch. Pleased what I have achieved in front and back gardens. Always had a gardener after my husband died. By moving ment I have gardens the size I can do myself.
Look forward to having my green house up next year.

Hope you all have the sunshine.

Ellianne, it all depends if your front garden is north facing and if you live in an area of heavier rainfall. I say this because if the garden does not have much sun then the whiteish gravel could end up with a bit of a greenish tinge.
That is the situation with my property so I went for slate chippings which would not show up the "green"

Morning all. Oh dear, not another poorly dog loopyloo. I hope the antibiotics work. Keep us posted.
I'm planning my front garden design for the Spring. I rather fancy modern grey slabs with a bit of whitish gravel in trenches. Unfortunately the front boundary is currently cottage style with a red brick wall, so that might have to come out or it will all clash. Decisions.

Hi everyone.
Please keep posting! Especially now.
Yesterday went to Hearing aid company with my husband. Transpires he hasn't been putting them in properly at all , which is why the aids kept falling out. Adjustments made and we soldier on. Shopping centre desperately quiet.
Afternoon, taken my daughter's dog to PDSA not eating at all. Have learnt how to get a urine specimen from a dog. Built a wee wee collector out of an ice cream box and a stick. Hilarious but it worked and showed blood in the urine. So our precious little dog is on antibiotics. DH saying things like " well if necessary have her put down." He waited in the car. Not quite at that stage yet.
Roads very quiet.
Crafty, do post when you feel up to it. Always interesting.
That house looks beautiful.
Shandy, good luck with the survey.

Yes I agree, the occasional PMs are good to people with whom you have built up a rapport.
That house looks lovely Spice.
My flooring is w/b 23rd Whiff.
Yes, bonfire night could see a lot of households having their own fireworks this year. I hope that doesn't mean more accidents.

Spice the house looks lovely.

For those of you who to think I am ignoring Craftyone stepping back I haven't . I have sent her a PM. She knows how much finding this site means to me. And finding all of you has kept me going and will continue to do so.

Shandy my neck feels like it is back to normal. At least it doesn't hurt to brush my teeth anymore. Has your dog's tummy better? Good to see you forward planning.

ha ha craftyone I actually meant a cwtch!

Will miss Crafyone’s interesting and energetic posts - please don’t disappear completely.

Craftyone - you will be missed on here.

Morning all, the dreaded firework night has arrived, my poor dog will be trembling

Hope your bruises are easing Whiff.

Great news about your floor Ellianne.

Spice that is a wonderful home to return to in the evening! Fingers crossed you still like it on your second viewing.

Craftyone I'll miss your posts, I send you a hygge

Franbern my survey is booked for next Tuesday afternoon, first spot he had available. Full structural, £570 inc VAT on a three bed extended bungalow. Fingers crossed!

I've got a removal person coming to give me a quote today, I hope he can help get the sofa and chair to my son too.

Enjoy your day

Franbern like you things I use regularly are left on the worktops. Daily things as within easy reach in cupboards and things that might be only used once a year on the very top shelves of my cupboards. When I cook I always get out my ingredients but as soon as I have used it it's put away. That way I don't forget to put it into whatever I am making.

This is the house we saw today.

Will miss you craftyone, don’t be too much of a stranger.

Spice really hope this is the one for you. Hopefully the second viewing will make your mind up for you. Fingers and toes crossed for you both.

Ellianne when will you be having your flooring done know?

Shandy has your survey been done yet?

Keep safe everyone and minds and bodies active during lockdown.

craftyone, do hope you will 'pop in; to see us all pretty freqeunetly. This particular site is positive, and will see us all (hopefully) safely and reasonably happily through the next few months,
Spice- does sound positive. Sometimes, it is good to go outside your perceived comfort zone. Sounds lovely property.
Ellianne lovely that your floor can be laid sooner - will be all down and dusted ready for Christmas. Do let us have a picture when it is finished. Amazing how we can get so excited about something like a floor!!!
With regard to kitchen worktops - I hate having any machines that I use reasonably frequently put away in cupboards -know it makes the kitchen look much nicer with cleared worktops - but, for me, a kitchen is a workshop meant to be used, and I prefer my machines easily available for whenever I need to use them. Only things I have packed in cupboards are those that I really only use very, very occasionally eg: my Foreman grill, and my sandwich toaster, and my soup maker. Other things are on the worktops (Toaster, egg boiler, slow cooker, kitchen scales, small Kenwood mixer, Kenwood food processor, hot water heater and a kettle, my knive block, tall bread bin.
Shandy do you know yet when your surveyor will be able to carry out the work on your bungalow.?

Sounds good Spice. Don't linger too long if you feel it might be the one.

We viewed another house this afternoon. It was like viewing an Escape to the Country mystery property. Totally different to anything else we have looked at. Built only seven years ago it was in a 1930’s country style home. High ceilings and spacious rooms. Set on half an acre with plenty of shed space for OH’s many bits and bobs. Lovely garden that should be easily maintained. We will have another look on Saturday.
More steps than I would like but I think that could be addressed fairly easily.
I think there could be a lot of competition for this particularly from tradespeople that want the workshop space.

I’m very aware that we should mot rush in just because of the situation with our lease.

I am going to ask for someone else to please copy and paste the new threads when the older ones get filled. I don`t own the thread, it belongs to all of us and I am glad to say that the thread is a `glue` that helps us all. I am going to back out of GN in a quiet way, I will still read and will post from time to time but GN in general sucked me in and I don`t want that and I don`t want my positivity dragged down, never on this thread, I emphasise that

It definitely isn`t goodbye, I will stay in touch and pop in from time to time