Hoose.
It appears the hoose is ours.
This is good news, and today there has been much financial bustling, talking to mortgage people on the phone, working out best deals and the like...
...we know exactly what kind of mortgage we want too. Still, it's not easy.
Unfortunately, the housing scenario is particularly bad in Gwynedd. Relatively low annual incomes, coupled with *the* worst house pricing rise, by county - mean that it's pretty tough to get onto the ladder at all.
Could have been so easy at that. Shuttle back three years. Four bedroom house by the coast. A mere 87k.
Wages at the time meant even this was a thorny pill. We got cautious. Well, I got cautious - Sian was all for it, if memory serves.
Try getting it now for 87k. ZZZZap.
Still. We're officially on the property conveyor. ;o) From all accounts, nothing's going to get cheaper - and ten years or so from now you could be looking at a repeat loop of frenzied increased housing costs.
So, what's the Llanfairpwllgwyngyll area like ellyll? :o)
I made fish, sweetcorn and new potatoes for dinner. Enjoyed mine - spesh with the cold beer. Sian's is on a warm tin platter. Awen ate the fish and found my efforts at getting her to eat the rest....amusing.
Got a staggeringly busy few weeks to look forward to at work. All is well and good, but I figure I'll be hammering the weekends until July...
...thereabouts my brother is getting married. The fool! ;P So, gotta book a hotel for that - 'cos there's a few squillion relatives vying for beds etc Family room somewhere seems the easiest thing to do.
Looking forward to it, of course. Perhaps this best man speech will be a little easier to write. Just openly mock the wee runt, and that'll be that sorted.
Got fitted for my kilt again. Was alarmed to find out I've swollen up a tad to some 13-and-a-half stone! Sheesh. Guess I can jog down the beach!
Importantly, need to grab a quality few weeks off, post site launch. Two weeks in Scotland I reckon, with one of them just for me and eiraniel.
Just let go of the reins a while. Saunter about Edinburgh. The best city on these islands.
Next to Glasgow :P
Loiter about Princes street gardens and drink coffee in the old town. Catch up with some of my [dearly missed] compadres from my Edinburgh days. Sian's got a few friends who've also moved North of the border. Just a few miles from where I used to live, which is kinda bizarre...
...this time she might make *all* the steps up the Scott monument. Rather than losing the ability to walk thirty steps or so from the top :P
Drink nice beer on Rose Street. Camp out in Waterstones. Walk up to the observatory.
In the meantime, the likes of this guy, not to mention this lady, are gonna have to carry me a little.
This is good news, and today there has been much financial bustling, talking to mortgage people on the phone, working out best deals and the like...
...we know exactly what kind of mortgage we want too. Still, it's not easy.
Unfortunately, the housing scenario is particularly bad in Gwynedd. Relatively low annual incomes, coupled with *the* worst house pricing rise, by county - mean that it's pretty tough to get onto the ladder at all.
Could have been so easy at that. Shuttle back three years. Four bedroom house by the coast. A mere 87k.
Wages at the time meant even this was a thorny pill. We got cautious. Well, I got cautious - Sian was all for it, if memory serves.
Try getting it now for 87k. ZZZZap.
Still. We're officially on the property conveyor. ;o) From all accounts, nothing's going to get cheaper - and ten years or so from now you could be looking at a repeat loop of frenzied increased housing costs.
So, what's the Llanfairpwllgwyngyll area like ellyll? :o)
I made fish, sweetcorn and new potatoes for dinner. Enjoyed mine - spesh with the cold beer. Sian's is on a warm tin platter. Awen ate the fish and found my efforts at getting her to eat the rest....amusing.
Got a staggeringly busy few weeks to look forward to at work. All is well and good, but I figure I'll be hammering the weekends until July...
...thereabouts my brother is getting married. The fool! ;P So, gotta book a hotel for that - 'cos there's a few squillion relatives vying for beds etc Family room somewhere seems the easiest thing to do.
Looking forward to it, of course. Perhaps this best man speech will be a little easier to write. Just openly mock the wee runt, and that'll be that sorted.
Got fitted for my kilt again. Was alarmed to find out I've swollen up a tad to some 13-and-a-half stone! Sheesh. Guess I can jog down the beach!
Importantly, need to grab a quality few weeks off, post site launch. Two weeks in Scotland I reckon, with one of them just for me and eiraniel.
Just let go of the reins a while. Saunter about Edinburgh. The best city on these islands.
Next to Glasgow :P
Loiter about Princes street gardens and drink coffee in the old town. Catch up with some of my [dearly missed] compadres from my Edinburgh days. Sian's got a few friends who've also moved North of the border. Just a few miles from where I used to live, which is kinda bizarre...
...this time she might make *all* the steps up the Scott monument. Rather than losing the ability to walk thirty steps or so from the top :P
Drink nice beer on Rose Street. Camp out in Waterstones. Walk up to the observatory.
In the meantime, the likes of this guy, not to mention this lady, are gonna have to carry me a little.
