Loose nuts :(

Yesterday was the big day for the survey

However, it turns out it may have been a waste of time ...

The other loose nuts are on the wheels of the dream machine

Following on from the vendor of the house we were going to buy pulling out of the deal at the very last moment on Thursday, the buyers of our house then threw a wobbly on Friday, days before exchanging contracts, and have asked for a structural engineer to look at a crack in the wall beneath the French windows. Why this was not brought up weeks ago is, if I'm being charitable, a mystery. It's hard to avoid the thought that it's motivated by the thought that we'll now be so desperate to sell that we'll drop the price. The couple who are buying the house didn't strike me as being like that at all though

We'll just have to wait and see what the outcome of that is. The worst case scenario is that the sale falls through and we have to have repairs carried out before we can re-market the house. That would set us back badly

The one saving grace is that Carol, from whom we're buying Safe Return / Pagan, has been an absolute star and she's given us time to sort things out short term and tabled a deal that will, if necessary, give us another five or six months to sort things out. I hate having to mess her about but all we can do is be totally honest about the situation other people are putting us in and take it from there

The last few days have been a bit of an emotional roller coaster to say the least. Just 72 hours ago everything was looking smooth and all set to be wrapped up within another two or three weeks. Now we're clinging on to the dream by our fingernails.