It finally happened...

...Monday at 3pm, we simultaneously exchanged and completed. But it was a close call. Monday morning the vendors solicitors announced that there was a hitch and for some time it was doubtful that the sale would take place at all. Nobody told us what had happened and we could only speculate, but no matter, it's all OK now and we finally completed. As it was all so iffy, we couldn't get on and pack and load up the van, so we sat about, waiting, waiting, waiting, not knowing if we would actually be going to Norfolk on Tuesday or not. When we finally got the phone call, it was a mad panic of packing and phone calls.
Tuesday morning and we were up early loading the van and didn't leave until about 11am. We stopped at Waitrose, Swaffham for a comfort break and a sandwich, before driving to Burnham Market to collect the keys from the estate agents.
We got to Crossways about 3pm. It was cold and damp and starting to get dark. The house was full of stuff that Mr and Mrs Vendor had left. It was like they'd done a moonlight flit, upped and gone, leaving their stuff behind. At this point I did wonder what the hell we'd done!
The next morning dawned bright and dry and after a comfortable nights rest at the cottage down the road, we went back to the house and it didn't seem quite so bad as it had the previous day. We had a bit of an explore with the dogs, unpacked the van and organised for a 7 yard skip to be delivered the next day. Once we got working, it was amazing at how quickly it started to look better. I love to make order out of chaos. Mr and Mrs Vendor seemed to love making chaos out of order!

From Monday next week, we will have a telephone line and Horahh!...Internet...Horahh!! So I will blog regularly so you can see how we get on with our little project.

Bye for now - bed beckons!