Waiting for Moving.....still

It has been a hectic and exasperating week and there has been slight slippage of the moving timetable...

Moving day was September 30th but has now stretched on to October 5th

 The week was full of ups and downs.

Monday:

• Looking forward to exchange of contracts ready for completion and moving in on September 30th
• But no clear communication from Bovis.

Tuesday:

• Solicitor returns from leave and says she has not received necessary communications from Bovis so cannot exchange until Thursday or Friday at the earliest
• Removal men cannot reserve moving day for us unless we give them a clear week's notice
• Cannot reserve removals in time so instruct solicitor to inform Bovis that we will postpone completion until Monday 5th October
• Bovis communicate with solicitor and say they want to complete on the 30th and will issue us with a licence to stay in our present house for up to a week to give us time to reserve removal men.

Wednesday:

• Sign contracts ready for exchange
• Towards the end of the day Bovis sales ring up and inform that there is an issue with the drainage system and the NHBC certificate cannot be signed off.
• Solicitor says exchange cannot go ahead without the NHBC certificate

Thursday:

• Bovis solicitor informs our solicitor that NHBC cover note can be issued as long as we sign a letter to say we are aware of the drainage issue.
• Contracts exchanged!!!!!
• (so we probably could have booked the removal men for the 30th)

Friday:

• Serious difficulties regarding carpet layers - Bovis have parted company with planned fitters.

Saturday:

• Lets forget about all this and go camping in Cornwall. We can visit Harry and take the fish to their new home...

FISH MOVING DAY September 26th:

They weren't too happy when I fished them out and put them in this bucket.
Quite a lot of splashing and complaining.

Quite comfortable travel arrangements in the back of the van.
Ju-u-rin and Winkie. The fish of Joe and Meena and Luke.

Arrived in Devon.
Alive and well and getting used to the taste of the water from the new pond.

Our friend's Dave and Jan have rather a luxurious pond compared to what our fish have been used to!



Next day there were several sightings of Ju-u-rin getting to know her new friends.
She is just visible as a light shape at the bottom left of this picture.
Winkie has stayed hidden but that's to be expected as he is a bottom feeder and has a very large and interesting pond bottom to explore.

So the fish move went smoothly - lets see how we get on!