Ding! Ding! All change, please... (now replaced with new diary on MFW)

Seasidegal58

It's all looking good on the housing front!  🤞
The Primani oval cotton pads sound very good value - I wasn't aware they sold these. I will have to investigate next time I'm in our big town. Thanks for the tip - I get through loads!😀

RosaBernicia

All sounding great EH

Just to mention while I remember, do check out wood burners carefully if/ when you get to that decision.  You need good filtering to avoid the health risks from their output and I suspect legal requirements will come in. 

Blackcats

A 3 link chain is great.  How lovely to be going on holiday with your sale and purchase well underway - good timing.

savingholmes

Good news on the short chain for your home move.

Suffolk_lass

Just caught up after our mid-April holiday - in light of bee season I am very much behind.

Very happy for you on the house front. The house we like is under offer after they reduced the price by £45k  and no sign of a buyer for ours. Should agent million call next week I would go as far as offering the full asking price as cash, and we could rent this place out

savingholmes

That's some reduction in price SL...

Chrystal

savingholmes said:

That's some reduction in price SL...

The EA where I live seem to be asking ridiculous prices for the houses and then having to reduce.

EssexHebridean

Most stuff is going on and then reducing round here too it seems Chrystal - although I think that is partly that the market is dropping round here as places mostly don’t seem to feel particularly overpriced to start with.   Sorry to hear that the place you liked has gone under offer SL - although hopefully that is because it’s not “your house” and the real one for you is still out there… 

We have been Achieving Stuff here this weekend. Voluntary role stuff has been moving on apace - we’re now waiting for our first phase orders to go out, but in the meantime we’ve got stuff to be going on with - contact to be made with some of our third party bars for the event, we’ve worked out some more layout stuff, found a glitch in the database which would have resulted in one brewery not getting their order at all, and plenty more odds and ends to be sorted too. 

Our trip to the beer festival on Friday evening was good fun - met up with a few pals up there too which was lovely. Cracking fish and chips for tea, the beers of course - although I only had a couple of pints (all drunk in thirds so a few different beers tried) and the bus each way from/ back to the station - but very impressively the bus was only £1 each way. We ended up on the last train back which would have meant a 35 minute wait at the next town up the line - but when we got there the barriers were open so we headed out to see if we could get a bus instead, handily we have buses running through from Stansted all night. And it turned out that we could, and in less than the 35 minutes, and it only took 20 minutes to reach the stop at the end of our road which was wonderful - far better than a nearly 2 mile walk back from the station for sure! Of course at the moment only £2 each as well so a complete bargain! 

Today has mostly been about holiday stuff - we finished getting the hamper that we use for all sorts of odds and ends packed up - that carries everything from maps and books through to various odd bits of food stuffs and all sorts of other bits too. Clothes also are all packed now aside from the stuff we’ll use in the first few days. Washing is up to date, and joy of joys this morning I managed to get the contents of freezer 2 into freezer 1, so freezer 2 is now switched off and has been gently defrosting itself all day. 

The other main win today is that we have applied for our mortgage. 1st D1rect - a 5 year fix but with unlimited overpayments allowed and a rate at 4.03% which is by far the best we’d see. In fact the product generally was by far the best we have seen - it’s got a low application fee too (under £500) so fingers crossed the application will all go smoothly. The unlimited overpayments thing is incredibly unusual in a fixed rate so we were delighted to find that! 

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, sounds like an ideal mortgage! Well done! Hope it comes through quickly 😊😊

joedenise

Agree with @Cheery_Daff - sounds a great mortgage.  Didn't get a mortgage like that until the last couple years before we paid it off.