Would You Like..?

So, about five minutes after I posted yesterday's blog, the phone rang. It was the estate agent.

'The couple who viewed at lunchtime,' he said, 'absolutely love the house. They would like to make an offer.'

And he told me what the offer was. And it was considerably more than we had anticipated. And certainly more than one agent suggested we would achieve, so what did he know....HA!

'The couple have met with our mortgage advisor,' continued the agent, as I tried not to fall off the top of the stairs where I was perched, so excited was I, 'and all seems good to go. We have to do a few more checks on Monday and obviously the house will stay on the market until everything is finalised, but all is looking good.'

Well!Who'd have thought it!?

Obviously, we can't get too excited because an offer does not constitute an actual completed sale, and we've been stung before with people making an offer and then vanishing at the eleventh hour, just as the solicitors were poised to take their gallon of blood.

But we allowed ourselves a tiny 'WHOOPEE!' and had an indulgent evening eating chips and searching for houses on the internet because we have some sort of figures to work towards now.

We went through our list of twenty or so saved properties and deleted a third of them because they suddenly seemed wrong or were obviously too expensive. We found a couple of extra properties to add to the list. We tried to be restrained and sensible and level headed, which didn't always work but that could have been due to the consumption of a chocolate and courgette cake that Andy made in an attempt to whittle down the hundredweight of courgette we currently have blocking up access to the fridge.

Most of all, Pandora Kitten was very smug with her success at approving a nice family, and intends to set up a new business called 'Select Your House Buyers Via The Media of Kitten,' which I am not sure will take off especially with such a clunky title.

'It's a work in progress,' she said.