Progress!
It looks like we are finally going forward on the purchase of our house! Hooray, hooray, calloo-callay :) We ran into a few problems over the last couple of weeks with the bank holding everything up and being unsure about giving us a loan because Rob is a contractor. However our lovely mortgage broker went and had a meeting with them and convinced the loans manager that we were a good bet and finally on Monday our loan was approved! It is such a good feeling to know that it has all been sorted (knock wood that nothing else will go wrong). We are expecting to sign the exchange papers on Friday and at that point everything is pretty much final and it is just a matter of waiting for settlement to happen. Of course in that time we will be putting our house on the market and of course cooking May Crown, so its not like we won't have lots of things to occupy us.