Started!!

Well at last some progress!! The building work has started, to be honest we probably missed the start as we have not been to the plot for the past few weeks. The day started sunny as promised by Mr Fish.....does Michael fish still forecast the weather.....??

Anyway, a beautiful sunny day in April, the birds singing in the trees and a blue sky. It must be time to get up!! So we drove down to the plot, traffic slightly heavier today....it must be something to do with the sun. Drove straight past the show houses straight to the plot, not knowing what to expect I saw through the crack in the fence that something has changed......excitedly I turned to my sweetness and said "they've started".......I jumped out of the car armed with the camera and marked the spot and raised my aim.....

This is what I saw.

I checked and then jumped straight back into the car to show the Boss......she pushed me back out and said take some more......so this is what I saw next;

So now we are off and running.......Can I say that being Grand National Day???

Feeling lucky, we went to Andover for lunch in our little fav place and then went to the bookies to place a little bet........No, we didnt pick the winner, but who needs that when now we are building :-)

Will write more soon.

Nothing is Happening....

Well I just thought I would drop a line into the blog, there has been little to write about this whole subject for the past few weeks. We should have exchanged contracts on 24th March 2011, which was over a week ago now. There has been two issues holding us back, one was a minor thing with the mortgage offer saying that its valid so long as we sell our existing house.......  well that would be tough, as we dont actually have a house to sell. But that was overcome very easily. The major stumbling block for us at the moment is that the master developer now wants an additional 6 months to finish the house, that means that the house "may" not be ready until June/July 2012, which is absolutely crazy, considering when we actually committed and paid money to the house they said it would be July/August, they then said when we paid even more money that the house would be delayed until November/December......now the B*ggers want another 6 months, which to be honest is a pain in the back side and quite unacceptable, but we will see what the solicitors can do about it. I dont think we would have gone for the house if we knew from the start that it would not be ready for 18 months......but we will see.

I will let you know what happens.