Adventures of a Fat Cat, Old Nag and their Trusty Servant

lucielle

Ask the supermarkets to save their banana boxes, these are great as they come with lids and you can stack them.
L

Greying_Pilgrim

Happy new diary Piq

Looking forward to keeping up with all your adventures.

Greying

Piquant_2

the_cake wrote: »

So enjoying all the excitement .... wine bottle boxes are good and sturdy, especially for books, as they are not too heavy to lift when filled.

I need all of you round to help empty a couple of hundred wine boxes :beer: Brilliant idea cake! I don't suppose we'll care much about packing the empty boxes after drinking all the wine....

Piquant_2

:j:j:jMy daughter is coming home today:j:j:j

It's going to be a busy day too. DS3 is coming to clear the garage and shed although I suspect not as much as was hoped for is going to get done due to the above news I'd like to get a couple more items up on eb@y. I don't have many bids on the stuff that's up there but I'll relist it and see what happens.

You're all going to think I'm mad when I tell you about yesterday evening. The estate agent called and said that the people who missed out on the bidding war have offered even more money than the house was up for :eek: What did I want to do. That threw me into a tizzwazz :eek: I wanted to say yes, yes, yes!!! But I didn't. I said no, I had committed to the other people and it wouldn't be an honorable thing to do [I actually used the word honorable too, what a dweeb ] I wish I could say yes as the extra money would be nice, but it feels very wrong when you have given your word. The estate agent was very good about it and says that it means we've got a reserve in place should the deal fall through. I am mad though aren't I?

Incidentally, I now have a solicitor. A fair price and the promise that it will move quickly. Today I need to find an auction place to come and clear some stuff.

Oh and I got £9 from Return to Earn for clothes. Not much but they would have been thrown away. All in my moving fund. Reminds me, must do another zapper/music magpie box.

Piquant_2

Colin has bent the sold sign, it is now at a 45 degree angle and looks like a drunkard put it up :rotfl:

jaybee

Very admirable!

Piquant_2

jaybee wrote: »

Very admirable!

More like stupid I think :( I try to be honest in everything I do and sometimes it backfires Still I can look myself in the eye in the mirror even if I don't like the lines round the eyes. Think I'll go and put some moisturizer on right now to avoid any more crows feet....

beanielou

You are a better woman than me

Have a happy day with your DD

maddiemay

Piquant wrote: »

:j:j:jMy daughter is coming home today:j:j:j

It's going to be a busy day too. DS3 is coming to clear the garage and shed although I suspect not as much as was hoped for is going to get done due to the above news I'd like to get a couple more items up on eb@y. I don't have many bids on the stuff that's up there but I'll relist it and see what happens.

You're all going to think I'm mad when I tell you about yesterday evening. The estate agent called and said that the people who missed out on the bidding war have offered even more money than the house was up for :eek: What did I want to do. That threw me into a tizzwazz :eek: I wanted to say yes, yes, yes!!! But I didn't. I said no, I had committed to the other people and it wouldn't be an honorable thing to do [I actually used the word honorable too, what a dweeb ] I wish I could say yes as the extra money would be nice, but it feels very wrong when you have given your word. The estate agent was very good about it and says that it means we've got a reserve in place should the deal fall through. I am mad though aren't I?

Incidentally, I now have a solicitor. A fair price and the promise that it will move quickly. Today I need to find an auction place to come and clear some stuff.

Oh and I got £9 from Return to Earn for clothes. Not much but they would have been thrown away. All in my moving fund. Reminds me, must do another zapper/music magpie box.

FWIW, I don't think that you are mad, you are treating your buyers exactly as you would hope and expect a seller to treat you. Yes, I know that he money would be marvellous, but, you are a woman with strong morals and principles and staying true to yourself. Yay to having a "second string" if your sale should become "iffy" and if it does the extra money will be there for you.

This may make you smile - in a past life when I was an Estate Agent, a seller decided to gazump and take a later higher offer, first buyer, quite understandably, was pretty fed up about it, but didn't understand that it was not me taking the higher offer, but my clients decision (and no, I did not recommend that they take it to "up my commission"), so I was told to watch my step and watch how I drove around the area!!, he was a serving police officer:eek: Hopefully, just a comment made in a fit of pique, but I did keep a very close eye on the speed limits for a while:rotfl::rotfl:

Fantastic news about your DD.:D

labtechlesley

Hi Piq, well done on your new sparkly diary - the first post is so very different from the first post of your last one , it just shows how well you have done and how hard you have worked.
Well done to Colin, bending the sign - he does make me smile!