24 May

24 May 2007
Update to the update on my mum's house

I can report that this evening I scrolled through 311 houses for sale within a 5 mile radius of my flat. Of those my mum decided to save 42, not a bad percentage. She was highly indignant that the estate agents she visited today hadn't offered her some of the houses on the website. I kept saying soothingly 'perhaps it isn't updated that often'. She however is convinced it was a plot to persuade her to buy a more expensive house that they've been unable to get rid of. She could well be right. She was also concerned that most of the bungalows were offered as vacant possession, most probably meaning the former owner died. I think she wondered if owning a bungalow might lead directly to sudden death.... By the end I felt like the search process was more likely to lead to sudden death - we were both slumped over the desk, eyes glazed, muttering 'keep', 'don't keep', 'keep', 'keep', 'don't keep'.
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Who would work in the city?

Just picked up an email from a friend who's a lawyer at a city firm. Sent from her work address, she said 'well, it's getting late, I'd better head home'. It was sent at QUARTER TO 1 in the morning.... This now joins the other 2675 reasons why I didn't even try working in that kind of job - I need to do my cleaning at 12.45am, I can't possibly still be at work then!
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Update on my mum's house

I got a text message yesterday to tell me that my mum has had an offer on her house. This creates a small problem, because she gave up looking for houses 'because there was no point finding one she liked if she didn't have a buyer for her house'. Now she's decided that the world wide interweb net is the only way to look at a load of houses quickly, so is coming round to my flat tonight to use the computer. The request was phrased in that way, but in fact she'll come round and watch me use the computer, because crawling round to each individual estate agent on our knees would probably be quicker than my mum using the internet.