May

May is here already, I can hardly believe it!
Today has been a little crazy - I have had to fortify myself with copious amounts of Earl Grey tea.
Last weekend when coming back from a lovely meal at Princethorpe, we passed a stone-fronted house with a "For Sale" board. Despite it being on a main road, I liked it and when we got home I looked in the paper but found nothing.
This weekend while at my in-laws' house I was reading the paper which I had thrown into the car to take along with us and there was the house....
So, we rang and arranged to go see it last night. Now, we hadn't planned on moving right now but we really liked the house and it has lots of potential. It has been in the same family since 1959. The owners have died and the daughters are selling it which they are, understandably, quite sad about. The wallpaper is fabulously retro. (The main bedroom has all sorts of funghi on it!) The front door is original, wooden with a porthole-style window. In the bathroom the original 1930's black and white tiles are still there, bowing out a little now.
The garden is wonderful - 120 feet!
Today I have been tidying our house and packing clutter away to get ready for two estate agents who will visit us tomorrow.