An in-between phase

Baileys_Babe

PennysIntoPounds said:

Surely you're getting treated to a bit of sleet as well for it to warrant 'wet snow' @Watty1 😁
Loved seeing the Greenwich light, maybe I'm a bit sentimental but I was like 'that's the actual timeline, off of being the actual time, that is effin amazing that is'

Eep, wrap up warm @Rhyddid2026. Afaik 'too cold to snow' is kinda nonsense but in a roundabout way true as if its colder in the sky/clouds then less or no snow can form cos they're dried out from being cold whereas you need moisture for snow, what with it being wet stuff. So it depends on if the above you weather has enough 'condensation' at the right levels of cold and moist.
That was a terrible explanation, just layer up.
When you have time you can sort your log store out and look forward to your Dec/Jan/Feb self thanking you 😊

Thanks your explanation on 'too cold for snow' is the best I have ever heard, made sense to my brain 🧠 

Watty1

oh now I understand to cold to snow!  

PennysIntoPounds

beanielou said:

Any idea when you can get some of the monies from the mortgage? 

Hmm. We're, um, deliberating on how to approach lender without dropping BiL in the brown stuff. If they agree with what his solicitor has done then we can potentially submit the same. If they don't and his solicitor has not done it properly, then none of us have money which is even worse than just me and Mr PIP having no money...
Today's to-do list includes trying out several ways of phrasing it before sending!

Rhyddid2026

That all sounds very stressful Pip!

PennysIntoPounds

Usuals

Build admin

Entered some competitions, I do not know where I'm putting all these hampers that are definitely on their way

Half wussy situps

Bits off the to-do list

Vinted listing

Off to see some pals for a beer shortly, got stuffed pasta for a two minute dinner 🍻

beanielou

PennysIntoPounds said:

beanielou said:

Any idea when you can get some of the monies from the mortgage? 

Hmm. We're, um, deliberating on how to approach lender without dropping BiL in the brown stuff. If they agree with what his solicitor has done then we can potentially submit the same. If they don't and his solicitor has not done it properly, then none of us have money which is even worse than just me and Mr PIP having no money...
Today's to-do list includes trying out several ways of phrasing it before sending!

Good luck!

Sun_Addict

All this build stuff sounds horrendously complicated 😞 So many hoops to jump through. 

PennysIntoPounds

Admin
Tidying
Comping

Build admin
We may be getting mortgage soon though we're a bit feeling like there's an issue but we don't know what it is and can't put our finger on it.
Might just be discomfort at having to swallow pride at rubbish solicitor actually being the one who can resolve it all

Nice walk getting olio bread

More steps getting essentials from aldi

Survey
Couple of receipt surveys
Few vinted listings

Build admin

Mum popped round for a drink which was nice, she's had her new hearing aids and is joke complaining that everything's too loud, which is a massive relief as there's a point hearing can't be aided but it's not now 🥂

Supermarket pizza for dinner

Hope everyone is having a fabulous Friday 

redofromstart

I'm listening to nostalgic Barry White in the bath, with a cup of decaf. I'm not sure that counts as fabulous, but a welcome break after a day of dealing with my building stuff.

Hope the mortgage niggle is just nerves and not reality. 

PennysIntoPounds

Sounds a very well deserved break @redofromstart

We've been discussing it and we can only think it's being so unused to things going right with this build that we're looking for the catch when there isn't one we can identify.
No-one's been duplicitous, everything is agreed by legal and banking professionals, maybe I'm just disappointed that we couldn't magic up tons of money and will have to pay nearly 6% interest- we have done such an exhausting job for so long of begging, borrowing, selling and surveying to scrape money together that it's probably disconcerting us that things might go smoothly 👀