Faffing? Make a list...

I am a great one for making lists. Even if I feel I haven't achieved much at the end of a day, as long as I've made a list, then at least I've done that.

I made a list this morning. I am glad I did, as I hadn't realised how much stuff I actually needed to write down to remember to do. Things, it appears, have been creeping up on me. I think it's because we are waiting for news about a potential offer on our house. The potential offerees (I don't know if that's a real word, but I'm going to use it any way)have been faffing. That's the only word I can use to describe the tenterhooks they've left us in for the last week. I mean, call me old-fashioned but I think if you like a house enough, you'll put in an offer straight away. You don't faff. If you faff, then surely that means you don't really want the house that much and perhaps shouldn't be buying it. Like it, buy it, that's my mantra. No faffing.

So we are in mid-faff with these people. I think even our estate agent is growing slightly annoyed with their faffing. They keep phoning her to tell her they are definitely thinking about possibly putting in an offer (what???), and then they get her to phone us with what I regard to be daft questions, which, I hasten to add, are questions I've already answered in their viewings. And now I'm going to stop going on about the situation because I'm starting to type in an aggressive manner and my new baby laptop doesn't like it one bit.

Back to the list. Today's list has 10 items on it; I have so far achieved 5. And when I was topping up my diary from the calendar for the next couple of months, I noticed it's only 7 weeks until Christmas. I was hoping we might be moved house by Christmas, but what with all the faffing (did I mention the faffing?) it looks like we shall still be here in this house. Christmas requires the making of a different set of lists. So there's number 11 added to today's list.

And then there's all the preparation for starting work again in January. I'm spending some time in the school during December in order to orientate myself and meet the classes I'll be taking over. I am already envisioning bringing home piles of paperwork, schemes of work etc etc so I can hit the ground running at the start of the New Year.

I wonder if our potential offerees are list makers? Perhaps that's what holding them up. Perhaps they are working their way through a question list, a financial list, a pros and cons list. They've definitely got a faffing list.

I asked Mrs Miggins whether chickens make lists to keep their lives in order. She said, 'Lists schmists....pah!'

So I guess the answer to that one is 'no.'