We had an unexpected guest today. We did the local car boot sale yesterday and the chap parked up next to us had some old coins for sale (finds from diving in the Red Sea and from metal detecting in various places). We fell into conversation and he has a degree in Archaeology from Lampeter (snap!) and also helped out at Dinefwr House, as I used to. Anyway, we gave him our address and said if he was in the area, he was welcome to come and take his metal detector round. He turned up today and we talke and talked, showed him the house, and then he went round our field and paddock. He found a few coins, some buckles and said the place to look was up in our copse. So we may go up there with our ageing (but hardly used) metal detector and see what we can turn up. The most interesting coin was a Druid's coin (or Anglesey penny) He's going to clean up the finds for us, and hopefully see what else he can find up there.
Anyway, I had to sprint around with the vacuum after that, and then after tea clear the dining room table of the "new stock" which gets put there as I accumulate it, ready to be priced up, wrapped and put in a "new stock" box.
The forecast is not going to be good for the next few days. I think we will be staying indoors a lot!
Good Luck with the estate agents. I got 2 to value when selling mum's house - I picked the less pushy one as both valued at the same price which was 50K more than I expected. It is a sole agency but in my case I was fortunate as an offer was made within a week. Just hoping now it doesn't fall through!
ReplyDeleteMetal detecting sounds SO interesting would love to hear more when he cleans up the finds and if he finds more items :)
Thanks for the moral support RR. Today's one has just cancelled this morning's appointment because it's raining and because of the "outside element". I imagine then, the same would happen if they were to conduct a viewing for us? Let's hope it is drier for them this afternoon. I should have offered a pair of wellies and a brolly!!
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed that the sale of your mum's house goes through without any problems.
We're looking forward to seeing our finds when Alex has cleaned them up.
Thank goodness I am unlikely ever to move again unless into a retirement home or a nursing home depending upon my state of health. Moving is such a stressful time, as is selling your home.
ReplyDeleteIt was stressful enough (not to mention exhausting) just getting it all up and ready to sell . . .
DeleteI can't believe they have cancelled! Hope the other estate agent turns up. Ha ha re: the wellies and brolly!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good wishes over mum's house. In a way the fact that it needed completely modernising and redecorating helped the sale because many who buy houses in that area have them completely gutted and rebuilt and massively extended so they would rather pay less for a house in poor condition than more on one that is good where they will just end up ripping everything out. Solicitors seems so slow on doing anything that I suspect that even though there is no chain and it is a cash buyer it will be a few months before everything goes through. I desperately need a completion date by November as insurance company inflict all sorts of things on empty properties including leaving heating on between November and March and the boiler round there doesn't work! And the bathroom was left in such a disgusting state by the relative that lived there that I wouldn't dare ask a gas engineer to do work in there!!!! To be honest I just can't wait for the moment when I don't have to worry about the house any more!!
Fingers crossed it is all done and dusted on your mum's house long before November. You can understand folk wanting a doer-upper as they can make it as they want it. I didn't realize that with empty houses you had to leave the heating on over winter!
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