yesterday was truly awful. our beautiful cat Tom died suddenly in his sleep. i cried solidly for 9 hours. our house is so empty without his talking, hearing his bell jangling, sitting on our laps.. Marcus woke up at 4am (Tom's usual 'feed me' time) and was adamant he'd heard Tom's bell and felt him jump on the bed. its going to be tough.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
sad times
yesterday was truly awful. our beautiful cat Tom died suddenly in his sleep. i cried solidly for 9 hours. our house is so empty without his talking, hearing his bell jangling, sitting on our laps.. Marcus woke up at 4am (Tom's usual 'feed me' time) and was adamant he'd heard Tom's bell and felt him jump on the bed. its going to be tough.
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Monday, 21 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
our thoughts go to them..

what has happened in Japan is truly awful. any natural disaster is shocking by itself, but when a country suffers two in one day, then has to contend with a potential nuclear disaster, no words can describe it.
Junko wong, who is big in the blythe world, is posting regular blog updates on the state of things.
The Blythe world is general is being amazingly generous. So many people setting up auctions and things to raise money. The FishberryJam blog has a list of auctions and raffles currently running.
Other things to do: donate to the Red Cross. i do a monthly donation.
donate to Shelterbox. i have also done this. check out what they do. its amazing.
Monday, 7 March 2011
not to be
my excitement over moving has come crashing down to earth with a big fat bang. We had 2 estate agents over last week to value us for part exchange. Bovis called over the weekend and said they had a figure..it was awful. we've worked so hard to pay of a chunk of our mortgage, but their offer would negate all that and put us negative, AND it was £15,000 below the market value. there is no way we can afford to move if that is their best offer.
so understandably i was disappointed and a little upset, but we have decided to move on and look to sell on the open market, even if it is only an exercise and doesnt lead to anything. i have contacted the agents who came around last week to see what they can do.h
Friday, 4 March 2011
gig night
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Monday, 28 February 2011
step one..
new house is on hold. now its up to the estate agents to value ours to see what we will get for partexchange. hubby is already panicking we wont get enough.
Monday, 21 February 2011
the great house debate

Hubby and i are really fed up with our poky box flat now. there's no room to even consider children. so yesterday we wandered up to the developer who was building the house we like to find out how it's going. they told us how prices were increasing with each build phase, so marcus and i have come to the conclusion we will be priced out of the one we like. so instead we looked at a couple of others. the top picture is a 3 bed terrace, but we'd go for the end one, and the bottom pic has an integral garage. next saturday we're going to look around both and see if any feel right.
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