Diolch, Deb! Just heard that the Land Registry have to get an Ordnance Survey surveyor out to correct their boundary mistake, so that’s probably going to take us through to not moving until after the new term starts, arghgghghg. Still, as long as we get confirmation tomorrow (or later) that we still have a mortgage even after our solicitors trying to upset our mortgage provider about Japanese knotweed (which we thought was a finished issue!), then all the rest of this stuff will just fade away into irrelevant memories in a few months from now…
I never knew how stressful moving was until I did it in this country. There seem to be so many complications that I had never come across before, and I have moved too many times to count
I hope you will get over this last hurdle with relatively little stress and that soon it will be smooth sailing. Great excuse for me visit Caernarfon for the first time too!
It isn’t always like that, honestly!! Most of my/our moves have been pretty straight forward.
One boundary question at my cottage solved virtually instantly! Oh, OK, one lot of papers lost by their solicitor in London!
Oh, derailment meant I was horrendously late getting to Harrogate! Fortunately I’d arranged for furniture to arrive a day later, so was booked to small hotel. Arrive tired and late,apologise, explain about train and say, “I have managed to eat on the train.” “Good”, I’m told, “You’d get nothing here now!” - as an introduction to service in Harrogate in those days, it was perfect!
It’s more the process of buying a house I find incredibly difficult. When you buy a house in NZ or Australia, on the date the seller accepts your offer, the date when you get the keys is agreed - usually about 6 weeks later. The solicitors and real estate agents have to work to that date, and if someone is late they get penalised. You know exactly when to organise your removal van for and it’s just easy.
Here I was kept waiting and waiting when the house was empty and my finance was all organised. No one could tell me when I would get the keys, I couldn’t arrange the removal van, it was a nightmare and very stressful. A totally different experience, and I really don’t understand what took so long!
@aran a @CatrinLliarJones I am feeling very chastened. I do hope all is going/will go/has gone well with your move. But I finally noticed SSiW History in FAQ and discovered that I had been trying, not to teach my Nain to suck eggs, but more my professor how to design an experiment. I have only lived in the UK. Aran has lived all over the world! I am sorry for presuming too much. I am also horribly aware that, faced with similar linguistic challenges, I spent all my time in the most English speaking lovely area (Gower) and only went north at all because my ‘auntie’ moved, whereas Aran decided to take the plunge, learn the language properly and live and work where it is spoken! My learning was all literature based before a short ‘spoken’ course on Gower!
Grovel!
No need for that! You were offering input with the aim of being helpful - that’s always appreciated…
In other news, we’re now crossing fingers that we’ll have exchange of contracts tomorrow, that the remaining funds will be transferred while we’re away next week, and that we’ll come back to a done deal and just need to pick up the keys.
Glad to hear the move is heading towards happening! I’m working nights but if you need a weekend hand, I’m keen to help. And happy to bring tools if there’s something needs doing.
Pob lwc!
Well we finally have the keys to our new home!!! On Thursday of last week, whilst in Portugal with extended family, we received a phone call from the solicitors to say that they had just exchanged contracts, then on Friday, our last day on our lovely holiday, we had completion.
We arrived back in the UK yesterday and picked keys up on our drive home, taking a quick peek in the house as we went by (in the rain and the mist ).
So this week, the madness begins. We have to finish packing up our whole house (because before we left on holiday there was still a lot of uncertainty over the purchase, therefore packing was on hold just in case!), do cleaning and painting in the new house as well as getting someone in to do some plumbing and reconfiguring the kitchen a little. Then there’s a whole load of bits and pieces to get rid of at the new place, which the old owners lest in desperation at midnight when (finally) leaving!
Then we have to move and settle in sufficiently for the kids to be able to begin their new school on Monday the 12th!
So if anyone just happens to be in the Caernarfon area during this coming week and feeling rather bored, wishing they could paint some walls or move some boxes just for fun ( ) then please let us know. We will be forever grateful for any assistance at all!
Diolch yn fawr iawn and watch this space! It’s finally happening! XXX
I am less than 20 miles from Caernarfon . I am off work on Wednesday and Sunday this coming week and would be happy to help if needed I should be free Saturday afternoon too .
