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One of the things I enjoy about the ED is the variety of work, I have little in the way of attention span, and it’s nice to work somewhere where I can flit around doing incredibly different things and where I get to utilise a wide range of skills.

The down side of this is that what starts as a really ‘good’ shift; one in which there’s a lot of cheer and enjoyment. One where the department is – not quiet – but just that nice level of busy to keep you ticking over. One of those shifts can be transformed into a dark, unforgiving place in seconds.

Obviously, I can’t talk about *what* happened yesterday, we all worked well as a team, we did everything we could, but as I walked to my car while the day staff took over and carried on working, we knew it was unlikely to be enough.

Sometimes it’s your time, and whatever we do, it’s not going to change that.

*House*

So, as you may have noticed, we are not, in fact, in our new house. This is because the alledged solicitors aren’t by any stretch of anyone’s imagination competent. After 3 attempts at answering the questions sent to them incorrectly, the vendor and the estate agent had a little discussion, decided they didn’t understand the questions and talked to our solicitors.

Our solicitors said “Yes, you’re not meant to be answering them. They’re for your solicitor to answer”. Yes, that’s right. The vendor’s illustrious solicitors are so inordinately incompetent that they actually don’t know which bits are their work, and which bits are the questions for the vendors. I’m astonished that we’ve actually managed to get this far, although I suspect that that’s probably the vendor answering questions well, rather than the solicitors managing anything very much.

We have threatened to, and will start to look at new properties in the new year. I have no faith in this company’s abilities to actually produce the right paperwork at any point, except potentially by a happy accident. Possibly we’ll have a house at some point, but we have no idea when that might be.

KateWE

Kate's a human mostly built out of spite and overcoming transphobia-racism-and-other-bullshit. Although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise. So she's either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity. Either way, it's all good.