House Update

Well today we got our Mortgage offer which is great news. Nothing untoward in it either.
We also had to pay for searches for a HIP on the property we are buying which is quite annoying, because it should be the responsibility of the seller, however our solicitor deemed that the information was not enough information to guarantee certain things and protect our buy.

Apart from that no other news, was hoping for exchange of contracts this week, but is likely now to occur next week, which will prove interesting......

House Update

One or two bits and bobs happened today, bit too private to post here but nowt serious...
On a practical note, we are hoping for exchange of contracts on 25th July, but this would appear ambitious.
We have answered all the questions we were given on Friday and handed them in, as well as our deeds signing (or something).

House Update

Nothing much new to report....
We had a list of odd questions from our buyers solicitor which we need to answer, frankly some of them are quite odd...

One is relating to a planning permission we got for extending the front of the house. We didn't do it because we couldn't afford it and its clearly obvious we didn't do it - but even after two visits to the house, they were asking for confirmation it "wasn't done".... wierd...

On and on.......

Claire is the new Fern....

For a long while I have always had a thing about Fern Britton. In fact I even applied for (and failed) but did attend a recording of Ready Steady Cook. (On another note the famous guest on the programme was non other than Suzzane Dando whom just a week later was shot dead)....

Anyway, here is Fern......... (Ah she is gorgeous with or without tummy stapling)...


And here is Claire Richards

If you don't know whom she is, she is Claire of the former band Steps.....
I saw her on Celebrity Masterchef last week and wondered who this vision of beauty was. I couldn't believe that it was Claire from Steps and she looks so much nicer than what she did before.... Hurrah, Claire is my new Fern.........

Well, maybe........

House Update

So....

Survey on the house we want to buy is done.
Survey is complete on our house.
We had to send a full months bank statement, pay slips for June and latest mortgage statement to our new new Mortgage company.
Tommorow for various reasons of reposession the house we are buying is advertised for 1 week (normal practice apparently).

Hopefully that this will be all ok. I don't believe that we will get our exchange of contracts this week or next but will wait and see.....

Moving Homes

Well, for those that are around us you know all about this, but I thought that something I could blog on was a belated blog about house moving....

So to catch up where we are here is a quick synopsis....
We had been looking initially to move to a slightly better part of the City, Beatrice Road, in Norwich for those that know it. However after much thought, we have decided to move (try to move) to Thorpe St Andrew as its the closest we get to church and school without being in Dussindale. (Not that there is anything wrong with Dussindale off course, just not our bag)...

So what have we done and where are we with things....

We initally put an offer in on a house for which was accepted BUT they wouldn't take it off the market until we had sold.

At the same time, another house in a similar place came on the market which was a lot cheaper for good reasons which I don't want to go into here (sorry).

We went and put in a silly offer on this house and it was accepted.

10 days later our house came off the market sold and we had in that process negotiated another £2000 of the house we were buying.

So now we are looking at exchanging contracts in two weeks and completing around 2 to 3 weeks after that.

I will post anything that happens .... (although unlikely to post tommorow as I am away on business).

Today - the only thing that changed was that we received (after a long while) the Building Completion Certificate in the post for the structural work we had done on our house.
We have filled out the house agreement (agreeing that we split the house equally if we get divorced).
And thats that.

Cullum v City

Its been announced that this morning, all negotiations between city and cullum have been terminated because they couldn't agree a deal.

Frankly this is good news. There were serious misgivings I had about this deal...

1. To "embarrass and expose" the city board through the EDP is appalling, which is what Cullum has tried to do.
2. £20 million for new players would be great, but lets not be under any illusion this is a heart decision, its a business decision. Clearly it was thought NCFC could be bought on the cheap, especially in the current financial climate. The reality is he is a business man, and this was an attempt at a good business deal...
3. Delia and Michael have been great for the club and I am sure that if they had received an offer that was in the interests of the club first, they would not hesistate to step aside and support from the stands. If they feel its not good enough, and Andrew and Sharon Turner think it not good enough, then thats good enough for me.
4. Cullum's insistance on Majority share holder status means clearly one thing - he has to have more than 31% of the stake - that means he has to offer to buy out everyone who has shares or loans in the club. Since the current market value of shares and loans to the club, plus £20m for players is realistic, this comes to £56million - he is woefully short.
5. Its interesting that when City were at the lowest ebb last season, he wanted to do some deal. Where was he when we were in the premiership, why not finance support then. Again, proof to me this is about a "canny" attempt to make a good deal for himself and NOT the club.

Time for him to put up and shut up. If he is a true supporter and just wants to help, why not give a donation of X amount to support the club. He could have become the main sponsor as well, and gone "over the top" in the amount and financed the club that way.

I wonder where Andrew and Sharon Turner sit in this, maybe they are likely suiters and a deal is in the offing there. Unlikely, but who knows.

Time to move on, support city as we move into pre-season, on the ball city............

Facebook and photos

A couple of things...

I recently joined facebook, here is the link to my profile:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1322140813

I also have formally set up my photowebsite but need to upload more photos:

http://www.dwmphotography.co.uk

Start again

Someone had pointed out to my wife the other day that I hadn't been blogging...

Which is true. So I thought I would start to write up some stuff again and keep on top of it.

More to come.