Granny, So great when everybody can work so well together, despite those usual warnings by Solicitors. Such great cooperation, and everyone so much happier.
Wish this could be extended to more people, and even countries.
Sounds as if your journey has been highly successful, and you can now slowly relax and enjoy your new home. When made this last move, the flat had been empty for eighteen months and the previous occupants deceased. However, the daughter acting on behalf of her siblings who sold it, had obviously arranged for professional cleaners to come in, when they took the final furniture out, so it was spotless when I arrived. At the house I sold, I left so much helpful local information, although I suspect none of it was used, as the new owners did not actually move in for over three months as they had builders doing whatever they did in there for all that time.
Shandy I do hope that it is settling down a little where you are and you will be able to (eventually), be able to use your insurance claim to re-build to your own specifications. Suspect it may take quite a while as probably both insurance companies and builders are extremely busy up there.
Many years ago, our youngest child (a bedwetter), wandered into one his big sisters bedroom around 2 am one morning, saying his bed was wet. Not an unusual thing to happen, so she told him to put on clean pj's and get into bed with her, which he did. So, not until when i got up the following morning, did I discovered that the reason for the wet bed, was because the water tank in the loft above his bedroom had overflowed, bringing down the ceiling in that bedroom, and going further down into the big kitchen/diner on the ground floor bringing down part of that ceiling also, and causing so much damage. Enormous insurance claim = but worked out well in the end for us.