Lewis bound for real!

Those Runrig tickets seem to be a catalyst. Is it worth a 1,000 mile round trip and £250 in petrol to see a band we’ve seen several times before? Die-hard fans wouldn’t bat an eyelid but sensible people with not much money?

So - on Sunday I leave Birmingham airport bound for Stornoway via Inverness to see if I can find us a house to rent from 1st July - got to be there by the 17th when Runrig are due on stage! There’s even a house for sale that might suit our (new, unexpected, unwanted and intolerable) situation so I’m hoping to get a look at that to see what might work. One thing’s for sure I shall make it clear to the agent and to the seller that we are not quite yet in a position to buy before I view. If they say no then I’ll forego the opportunity. I won’t piss anyone about as we have been pissed about for these past four months. Actually we might well be close to being able to make an offer as, although our house is nowhere near selling, the one down in Essex is ‘definitely’ sold - to a cash buyer at £5,000 more than the offer that fell through and they ‘want to complete quickly in order to get a tenant in’. Until the cash is in the bank though it’s not sold.

Lots of re-thinking required now. There’s always the ‘fall back’ though - if we run out of money in 18 months time our house will probably still be on the market so we can come back to Stafford! Either that or a suicide pact at The Butt of Lewis!