A Wonderful Weekend

We have had the most wonderful weekend.

We visited what is potentially our new home, our 'forever home'.  Of course we have to arrange our finances and get a mortgage organised and then make an offer, have it accepted and then go down the whole survey route, all the time keeping our fingers firmly crossed that no cash buyer jumps in and buys it from under our noses. 

But if it was simply a decision to be made, we would be buying it tomorrow.

It is a bungalow as you can see from the picture, with four bedrooms, one of which we would use as an office.  It has a wonderful kitchen/living/dining room, which we would do most of our living in, as well as a large lounge.  But the most important part for us is the outside, although it has only half an acre is it wonderfully planned out with stables, greenhouse, polytunnel, hen house, goathouse, brick built 'man shed' and lots of space for us to develop veggie beds. It has some mature fruit trees and bushes and a large Asparagus bed.  The best thing for Lovely Hubby is that it has two wood burners, one in each of the main rooms and already has solar powered electricty and solar heated hot water, two of the three things he wanted at our new place, so we would be pretty self sufficient in generating our own power .... and the best thing for me is that it has room for an Aga in the kitchen!!

As it is so far from where we live now in order to view it and not be completely shattered we had to stay overnight in the area.  We chose to stay in a Premier Inn in Boston, and I have to say it was the nicest place we have stayed in for a long time.  The building was lovely, as was the Brewers Fayre right next door for food, we had chosen the 'Meal Deal', so we had a three course evening meal with a glass of wine just after our arrival at 5.30pm and then the 'as much as you can eat breakfast' from the buffet the following morning.  A lovely touch was 'Santa' wandering round distributing selection boxes to all the children as they finished their breakfasts.  The staff in both the hotel and the restaurant were brilliant, answering our questions about the local area and generally being on hand to help any way they could.  I really cannot praise it highly enough.

Before leaving for home we had a quick peek at another property, just for comparisons sake and a wander around Boston itself, lots of good shops.  The whole area is somewhere we have never been to before and we were amazed at how flat this part of the country is.  The area is one of the largest growing regions of the UK for vegetables, so I should be right at home!

Now we just have to be patient and get the ball rolling on this potential purchase.

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If there are some of you out there who are used to me leaving comments on a regular basis on your Blog posts and I seem to be missing, I just want to let you know I am still reading daily or as often as you post, I am just not able to leave comments using Lovely Hubby's laptop in the kitchen.  I can only leave comments if I use the usual computer in the office and it's FREEZING in there ..... literally, even the computer has a cover over it to keep the worst of the cold off.  Now and then if I've been out with the chickens or walking the dogs I leave my coat and hat on (and even my gloves) and have a ten minutes session, trying to leave as many comments as I can before I need to get back into the warmth.

So please bear with me if you don't hear from me on quite such a regular basis, I am still reading all the Blogs on my sidebar and lots of the Blogs that I 'follow'.  We are thinking of updating the laptop and then I should be able to leave comments or even moving the whole computer package  from the office lock, stock and barrel into the kitchen for the rest of the Winter, perhaps this coming weekend if we can.

It's freezing here today but the sun is shining and it's wonderfully fresh out there. I have a package to post off from an Ebay sale this afternoon, so I am letting my car thaw out naturally while I read my way around Blogland with a lovely hot cup of coffee and a rather late bowl of porridge.

Keep cosy.

Sue xx