We have sold our house! Now there is a turn up for the books.
The purchaser is French!
Got to find a new house in the next few weeks!
Oh my – haven’t done this in a while, scary. A new chapter in our lives
We are not going back to Blighty, but are hoping to move to a town or village with essentials close by so that my man can still have his Sunday French lessons with his copains a la petit maison avec ancien four.
We have had a look around and nothing at the moment takes our fancy within our price range.
I have loads of stuff to pack away but nothing to pack it in! Thank heavens the kids are out in a couple of weeks, they will be bringing strong packing boxes and bubble wrap.
Have contacted agencies – will keep you all posted on what we find!
If we don’t find anything in the next 3 months then we have a bolthole to go to courtesy of a dear friend.
In the meantime we are sorting ourselves out for the French wedding of an English couple. The grooms parents live out here and they (the family) thought it would be nice to marry in France!
Now this is the second (English) wedding out here this year that we will be attending, the first was in April.
Have found a lovely gift for this couple and also for the next couple whose nuptials we will be off to the UK for in August.
At one time, when one was contemplating a gift for newlyweds, one looked at a wedding list and bought things like, crockery (Wedgewood), cutlery (Sheffield silver), linen (Irish), towels (Turkish) etc. you know, the essentials as they were ‘setting up home together’. Gifting was easy!
Nowadays it seems that couples have all the essentials (from either divorce or Ikea) so it is a case of getting something that will either be on display or consigned to the back of a cupboard to be re-packed and given as a gift to someone else.
The three weddings that we either have and are attending this year are all couples that have been married before, they are in either their 30’s, 40’s or 50’s, have children by their previous spouses and have been living together as man and wife before tying the knot.
Is this a trend?
I know that they have all the essentials for living but I don’t know their tastes in décor etc. so my solution is a very easy one…..
I buy clear, modern, contempary glassware for displaying flowers that will suit any décor, I hope! And I know of a fantastic place where you can find such glassware at a very reasonable price!! Hopefully it will be on display and not consigned to the back of any cupboards.
Brilliant news, Trisha, especially in today's depressed housing market. Good luck with the search for your new house.
ReplyDeleteIt's so long since I've been to a wedding that I'm not sure what the trend is, to be honest. That wedding was of my niece and they were young and starting out on a low budget so asked for Argos vouchers, which was easily dealt with. Good glassware sounds like a safe and hopefully very acceptable choice.
Wonderful news!
ReplyDeleteYour positive thoughts paid off!
And I know what you mean about weddings...even the one in Belgium we have been invited to in August between two young people is a problem as to a present...they've been together a few years and have just about everything in the household line....we could give him a hand made guitar from Costa Rica...but she'd probably end up braining him with it the way he plays!
I was just looking back at your blog and you started talking about this on 14th June. Have you really sold your house in a month?? We have just put ours on the market, like you, we hanker for a go at living in the town. But the feeling is that it will take ages to sell - what's your trick????
ReplyDeleteRosie, we put the house on the Market at the beginning of 2010. The agent that has managed to find us a buyer took it on the beginning of this year. He had plenty come and look too. He is French and sources property mainly for French clients. The other agencies are mainly after English clients!
ReplyDeleteWe have been lucky though, only 18 months in total, but we had to take a reduction in our asking price, a small penalty to pay for our peace of mind!
We're still at the stage of doing all the jobs that we have been meaning to do for ages :-) Then try and forget about it I think.
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