And so we forge on into March and it is indeed all going on.
Cam has got his school place at King Ecgbert’s. YES!! It feels like a vindication of my house placement and patience. He is delighted and so are we all.
We plan to move house once Carmel and Megan move over to this side of the city. A Bellway new build, 5 minutes from Cam’s next school has caught everyone’s imagination. Initially uncertain, Cam fell in love with the notion that he effectively gets the ground floor as a virtual flat. He wants a piece of that and is completely smitten. Similarly Carmel and Megan are keen. I’m quite keen. There are enough gotchas to make me drag my feet a little (not least price), as much as I like the idea of the place. Odd to be possibly buying a house that is a drawing on an estate that is being built.
The biggest gotcha is that Bellway have created Sub Leases on the new builds. They can’t create straight leases because the land, a former school, is owned by Sheffield Council. I am acutely aware of the possible escalator on these vile contracts that have been dubbed the PPI of the building world. I now have a solicitor and also an estate agent for our sale. I’ll get the Sub Lease and Lease over to my solicitors to get them fully checked out. I smell sharp practice and will respond accordingly if the Sub Lease terms lowers itself to my expectations.
Big mortgage, retirement a distant possibility, I will flog till I drop.
Anyway, if not that one then we will probably find another, eventually. This gives me time to do some much needed work on my current house. Minor cosmetic stuff mostly, as I have had the roof done recently, which should help the resale potential.
My Revelation games convention has now come and gone to great acclaim. Well worth putting it on and has reaffirmed my love of Powered by the Apocalypse games in all their deliriously varied forms. Impulse Drive is a little gem and I shall certainly be running the game again many a time.
Last week my laptop went pop. I don’t think it can have been charging the battery and suddenly there was nothing. It hasn’t powered back up again. The local laptop repair man says “no”, so I will collect from him at the weekend and take it up to PC Specialist and enjoy the nearby Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Cam.
I had thought of going up to Airecon this weekend, but with work needed on the house and a desire to get the laptop sent off, I’ll probably do that and get a trip out with Cam sorted instead.
Carmel is on nights, so I have a quiet Sunday alone and might get some house sorting done and maybe some Wordplay 2 writing.