We have moved once again

Because of a previous booking, we have had to move out of the holiday let we have been in for the last couple of months. This would be the fifth time we have moved and doesn't include going back to Kent a couple of times.  I hate moving and the fact that we do not have a permanent home.  Its hard work.  We have moved into a station house right next to the station.  A lovely lady has let us use her home for a couple of weeks whilst we wait for our house to complete.  Although it is a nice cosy home, I'd prefer that we are not here for long!  I so long to be in our new home and want to settle.  We have been here 6 months now although it feels longer.

We have had a very stressful few days and we really need relief from it.  I'm finding it more and more difficult to hold things together.  I even broke down in tears in front of my employer today, only a little but how embarrassing!  It was just a build up of months and months of worry and it needed a way out. We are waiting for the news to say that we have exchanged on our house sale and purchase.  It feels like it is taking ages.  Every day is painful, another day gone then another!!

Mothers day

Spent a lovely sunny morning walking around shops in Betws-y-Coed and a coffee to finish.  The back to our holiday let to sit in the garden and eat our bakery bought oggies.

I've also started packing today.  We are having to move out of this holiday let and into another.  I am grateful that I haven't done it for a while but this will be 5th or 6th time and I was hoping to avoid having to move again.  Now its not the case of just a few bags.  We have gradually accumulated more stuff over the last 3 months of living here.  Additionally its having to clean the place top to bottom (fair enough we have been here 3 months but the previous lets have been a few weeks at a time) and cleaning the ovens and fridges etc. I keep thinking though its a means to an end.  Keep our fingers crossed for progress next week!

A glorious spring day in North Wales - The Great Orme

Wow it has been a fabulously sunny day today.  We decided to take a trip up to the Great Orme.  Couldn't have picked a better day.  Hardly a cloud in the sky giving us fantastic views.  This has been a great pick me up for all of us.  Just what we needed and reminds us why we are going to some much trouble to move here.

Not going to plan

Today is beautiful.  The sun is warm the sky is bright blue and free from clouds.  I'm so glad it is as when we were told that we were not going to exchange contracts today, we quickly hit the ground with a thump!! Its amazing how it affects you.  We had already had a bad night sleep and were already on tender hooks waiting for the news to say that we have exchanged, then the bad news came and I just lost the ability to move or talk.  Just had to sit there and take it all in.  Ordinarily you can think we'll just exchange Monday but we have been told that the people at the bottom of the chain are not just a couple of days not ready but at least a week!!  Then we have the people at the top of the chain threatening to pull out if they don't complete on a certain date.  This could all go to pot, we could lose everything!!

I navigated my way home in the car with a horrible headache. I grabbed the dog and Dave and I went out for a walk to clear our heads.  We went to my favourite thinking spot.  I'm drawn to it when I need to put things into prospective.  How can you not when you have a view like this:

This picture wasn't from today but is still breath taking.

I come away thinking we will see what next week brings.  There is no point worrying over what might be.  We will have to deal with what is thrown at us and just hope for the best.  There is still a good chance that this might still go through ok.  Please let it be ok.

Went to see our house

It was a beautiful sunny spring like morning! What a perfect day to see the house we are buying.  Until this point we had not allowed ourselves to get excited in the fear that it all may well fall through to the point I had wondered whether we actually 'loved' the house or not.  We hadn't see it since November so it was a vague memory and felt unexplored.  Today, with only weeks to go until we complete, I found myself standing there taking it all in, asking myself 'is it ok to start getting excited?  Is it safe?'.  Seeing it on a warm sunny day bought the best out of the house and garden.  Your mind starts to wonder to days when we will be sitting or pottering around in the garden, picking fruits of the numerous amounts of trees!  Oh I so want to get excited!!