On September the 4th we started our 112 mile journey down to Connor and Lucette’s flat with the aim to move Damara into her new flat. The completion date had been fixed a few weeks back and Robert, our solicitor, had confirmed we were all ready to go.
About half way down, Wendy called the estate agent and asked if the keys where ready to be collected, only to be told there was a problem with the sellers solicitor, who was not prepared to proceed as she was missing a document which she was waiting on from the freeholders solicitors. Wendy lost it. Big time. In fact, she had to get out of the car in a lay by and pace up and down for a bit. I have never seem so much steam coming out of her ears!!
To cut a long (8 months) story short, lets just say that the sellers solicitor combined with the freeholders solicitor managed to screw things up. Anyway, expletives aside we decided to stop with Damara for a few days to see if things could get resolved and to try and avoid returning to the boat and waiting again. We stayed the weekend and, in the end we returned on the Tuesday with Tweedledee and Tweedledum still not able to sort themselves out. And here we remain on the 14th September, waiting for any news. By now, we have zero expectations.
Artful Dodger 