Update time…

OK, I have a little spare time now while I watch Kick Ass for the second time in 3 days… so time for a little update on everything.

Houses… Well, I put in an offer on the bungalow I looked at, a cheeky offer however with the amount of work it needed, the location, the size and the current prices it wasn’t really that cheeky. £93,000 for something worth around £95,000 in my opinion. It was rejected. I increased it to £98,500 in the end but that too was rejected as the seller is under the misconception that it’s worth closer to £120,000… So scrap that idea. I will not use that estate agent again either as he undermined my offers before putting them in and pretty much demanded I increased it before he put it in. A slimey little fucker too so time to say goodbye to them!

Looked at a load more houses since, two really stand out. Both are identical except are on opposite sides of the road and one is a mirrored layout of the other. To decide which to go for will ultimately be decided on the price however the favoured one is the last one I saw as it has decoration more to my liking and comes with cooker (and ceramic hob which I have always wanted!). With some luck it will also have a south/south-west facing roof so I can go for some solar energy to cut my costs (£12,000 of free photo-electrics or pay for 50/50 electric & hot water… undecided yet) but I am yet to look on google earth to see which way it points.

Offer will be going in Monday I would imagine, unless I feel impuslive tomorrow at my mortgage meeting…

Mortgage meeting, all set up for tomorrow at 11. Should hopefully find me a great mortgage deal at 90% LTV and a good fixed rate. I have a mortgage in principal with Halifax which seems like a good deal and has FTB incentives too including £500 cash back.

I’m also happy to say that I now can be called Rich Pyke IOSH… I passed my IOSH Health & Safety which I was really worrying about. It was done just after Gramp died and while Gale’s dad was ill and died so my head was just not with it. It didn’t help that I was still a little drunk on one of the days either. But I somehow managed to pass it.

Love life is still a non starter really. While I gave up chasing Gale a while ago after realising it was game over, I haven’t really been looking since. There are a few on Plenty of Fish that I have been messaging, well, two… and a few I sent messages to recently but have not yet read or replied to them. But I have bigger fish to fry no pun intended).

Work wise, I am back on to 40 hour weeks at B&B now. Which means less time for Rich Pyke Computer Services stuff, but since Holland’s have still not paid the last moths invoices I have put a hold on their work for now. Ecovision on the other hand are the most awesome client I have.

What else, I have my awesomeness back again. Life is generally going well so I am happy. I was exceedingly happy on my way home from work and I have no idea why. Let’s hope I stay this way :-)

I’m sure there was something else but nevermind, I’ll thing of it later…