Some Good News

Our new niece arrived this week - Olivia Marjorie Ida Love-Wilson, born 19th November 2009 16:59. Sarah, Rob and Jessica are truly blessed to have this new addition.

Jay and Harriet have been to see her and despite her being an extremely healthy 8.1lb at birth Jay was shocked at how tiny she is. So little time do they remain like that - blink and all of a sudden you have a 9 month old who is motoring about the place, not quite sure what to be up to next.

But in whatever shape, size or activity level our children are a joy and we are all thrilled that the family at large is getting bigger.

Fingers crossed

Although I haven't written much that's not because nothing has been happening. In fact, quite the contrary but not much of it good. The sale of the house is precarious at the moment because of the survey. It identified a crack on the side of the house where the small kitchen extension meets the main building. The survey said that it might be a crack in the render or a problem with the foundations. It also found the fuse box to be of an older type that does not meet modern standards and recommends an electrical survey.

The whole thing was poorly worded, inaccurate in places and self-contradictory. The English was of such a poor standard that if I quote from it I keep having to write [sic] to make it clear that the mistake has not been caused by Mango walking across my keyboard. It runs the risk of ruining everything - we have sold Arto, said goodbye to Scamper and for what?

So next week we are paying for a building engineer's report and an electrical survey to have an 'expert' rebuttal. Fingers crossed.