Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

I am calmer, the lovely people on the Housing forum saved me. I pay my rent on the usual day but to the new landlord. So that is a lot simpler. I might stop chewing the walls now.

How is Secret Rooster, oyster? I was thinking about him earlier.

Orrrr I might sit up all night and fret endlessly. I am going to call the letting agent at 9.30am, the phone call will be terrible but not as terrible as being stuck in limbo. We have all been told to call the letting agent individually asap to talk about our specific tenancy. I have been told the new landlord should honour the previous agreement until it ends which is April but what happens after that is negotiable. I will be fine once I have a tenancy agreement and have dealt with housing benefit (and I know for sure that the new landlord wants to keep on people on housing benefit, if they don't my panic will know no bounds). This has been The Thing That Shall Not Be Thought About for 9 months, now I just want to get it over with.

Good morning all! How is everyone's pets? Pets cheer me up!

whitewing

Good luck with your phone calls, WaS. Try not to worry about it all - life's so much easier when you don't.

elsien

Would you like a Gitdog to take your mind off things? He's not cheering me up at the moment. It may take some time to get him to you as he is currently needing to be physically prised from his pit every morning. (I knew giving him the extra blanket was a mistake , but he was giving me the pitiful cold look when I started economising on the heating.) Worse than getting teenagers up before noon.
And it's raining, so it'll be a boot up the backside to get him out of the porch, then physically hauling him down the road for the necessary. Mornings are going to be so much fun when I restart work.
I don't remember him being this bad last year - I've clearly made him far too comfy. Back to the workhouse regime, I think.:rotfl:

lostinrates

Kiwi is a bit of a teenager int he morning too. ( dog dog is slow too, big dog is up and out). I simply go out side and say, gosh big dog look at this, and kiwi ais out like a rocket. If I point out side and say what's that behind the tree he's off too. I find the trick is less 'get out' more 'hey, what are you missing?'

I give them breakfast first thing in the darker months anyway, and dog dog usually paddles behind me through the house to 'help me ' make breakfast and eats before going out and she has ample time to widdle while I let chickens out and stuff.

elsien

Because he won't go in my yard, I have to take him down the road. Which means getting his harness on. Not easy on a dog curled up at the back of his crate doing his best impression of a dead weight. Breakfast may do it - mine that is, not his. He does like porridge, so clanking saucepans may shift him .

tea_lover

This is apropos of nothing but I'm in the office on my own and there's no one to tell..... I got take that tickets!!

Waves_and_Smiles

How exciting TL! Well done! When is it for?

Hahahahaha I do love our thread pets, they make my day! I seriously grin from ear to ear everytime they're mentioned.

The amusing part-save me from chatty letting agents. He is a lovely guy but he was on the phone for 20 minutes talking about his workload and I am sitting here shaking like a leaf staring in horror at the fact I have a phone in my hand. I ended up making rather hysterical giggles at him and over-compensating terribly, hopefully he didn't notice!

The REALLY good news! The new landlord is keeping on the housing benefit tenants! I do not need a new tenancy agreement, my current one becomes a rolling one from now on and is just switched over. Finally, I do not need to contact Housing Benefit! Because my rent is paid directly to me nothing has really changed as far as they are concerned so there is no change of circumstances, the rent is the same, the address is the same and the tenancy agreement is the same.

I am not going to be evicted!!!! The Thing That May Not Be Thought Of is no more! I cannot tell you the relief, it has totally cancelled out the horror of the phone call. I have been pushing this out of my mind ever since the flats went onto the market, the last time I had to move I was almost sectioned and I really didn't know how I would cope with it again.

Mushroom update-I am to clean the ceiling with bleach and after the 28th when the new landlord takes over they will send someone round to look at the ceiling. They can't until then because the property is still under the old landlord who is refusing to lift a finger. But (gardening?) help is on the horizon!

The slightly bad bit-We have a health and safety inspection tomorrow to check the window frames and doors. The letting agent said it isn't a flat inspection so he doesn't care about tidy rooms, he just needs to check we can cope in the event of a fire. We will need to tidy up a bit and it means I am going to have to plaster on a smile and let him in but if I managed a phone call I can do that. It seems minor compared to The Thing That May Not Be Thought Of. I had catastrophised that to the point of picturing myself living in a box under a bridge. I feel like drinking champagne or something...

jobbingmusician

wooooooooooooooooooooooooop! You have a home! Brilliant news!

And well done on the phone - such progress

:heartpuls:heartpuls:heartpuls:heartpuls (that's your heart beating fast, but also lots of love. Multi-functional emoticons! )

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahaha! Yes, Woooooooooop, JM! I am sitting here not quite believing that all the worry I spent 9 months determinedly ignoring is gone. I feel like I need to pinch myself, is it really over? Am I really safe to relax and can breathe again now?

The phone call was amusing, I was sitting here wrecked and puffing frantically on my e-cig while the letting agent chatted merrily away about the problems of health and safety inspections and how they ask for bottom opening windows these days but he thinks top opening ones are better because it isn't safe for young children. He is a very nice person but wow, he can talk. Part of the job I suppose!

oystercatcher

So so so glad the flat Thing is sorted out WaS. That situation would have worried me sick too.
You managed a phone call too see you can do it if you have to . Again I totally understand how difficult that can be !

Having a very dizzy day here so plodding a bit . Not sure I will manage my library goal this week but it is still in my mind. I looked up the opening hours and discovered that apparently it is haunted :eek: books fly off the shelves , strange figures are seen and footsteps are heard in the empty building :rotfl: . It's not a terribly old building either !

I have noticed that Secret Rooster is a bit henpecked !! He does the usual rooster thing of trying to round up the ladies and they turn round and refuse and peck ! I think they remember when he arrived and was a teeny tiny little thing and kept hiding under Big Bertha's feathers
Returning from our, short, dog walk this morning I could hear him doodle-dooing from the end of the road which is a little worrying. Although so far the neighbours I have spoken to have said they don't mind and not to get rid of him. I really hope he can stay but don't want to upset people.

Hopefully Matilda pics later when head spinning less.