So, we spent a few days down at my mums, while viewings commenced on chez us in Slough. Most of the time was spent in a mixture of chilling out, doing paperwork for the new job and the agency job and attempting to coax the G-Wiz into life. Unfortunately, the G-Wiz is probably not going to go – one of the batteries appears deceased and UK batteries have tested it and declared it okay – so meh. I think it may have to go up for sale.
Anyhoo, we piled in the car and paused on the way home to view a house that we’ve been considering. So now we have to pause to consider do we want the insanely huge, utterly vast project with potentially really great returns and the production of a truly awesome house – or the marginally more sensible, probably much less difficult project with the production of a nice house that’s going to fetch much less money when we sell it. Or, of course, there’s the selection of much more sensible (in most senses), much less exciting, but far easier just need a bit of updating houses (which we’ve got a list of and need to organise viewing)
We’re trying to get some info from Bristol City Council – but they’ve not managed to give us anything yet – so we’ll be ringing them on Tuesday to find out whether our concept is even worth considering. We’re also trying to get more quotes from architects / timber frame places – because the costings we’ve had so far have basically given us: good case – easily affordable, bad case – vastly out of reach. I’ve found another timber frame place that’s quoting a vastly different per square metre price – closer to what I was expecting. And oddly, someone at work’s informed me that her uncle is a builder, in Bristol. This is handy :)
What’s not so handy is that the combined stress of court, job, house and MSc has made me go back to my IBSy rapidly needing the loo after eating state. Something I’ve not had for a very long time. Still, it’s handy for losing weight. It’ll be good when one of these stressors (at least) is over and done with though.
