Offer accepted!

Blimey O Reilly we’re bought a house! Well, not quite but we’ve had an offer accepted. So it seems that all our efforts of trooping round houses every evening and weekend for the past couple fo weeks have paid off and we were able to feel confident that the one we saw on our fuirst day of house-hunting was not a knee-jerk response to desperation but a valid positive response to a lovely home.

After our fairly smooth wedding planning period I was still really concerned that the house-hunting might be the real sticking point with our polarised approaches to life in general coming out. In reality it wasn’t half as bad as expected, with the fact that, in the end, we have surprisingly similar taste in what we like and don’t like, and ultimately both felt very strongly about the house we have found.

What the process has emphasised is our different approaches to things (life in general perhaps?) – in that I get really excited really quickly, rush ahead with major excitement and then almost as quickly die down and lose enthusiasm. Paul, starts at the other end of the scale, with an apparent lack of enthusiasm (he’d obviously describe it as cautious positivity) and then works his way up. When we meet in the middle it works fine , but if we time it wrong I have passed the middle point and given up just at the point he’s getting going. I think even paul would admit that he actually enjoyed the hosue-hunting process a lot more than he expected to, although we were both getting a little weary further down the line.

So now it’s the roundabout of mortgages, HIP’s, surveys, etc etc. given my nature I’m obviously keen to start buying woodburners, french dressers and curtains. For some reason Paul is saying no…….