We’ve finally completed!

It took some doing, broken promises, tears and all and a mere 10 days later than planned we have finally completed.

On the 28th, at around 10:30 I took a call from my solicitor to confim that finally after 13 weeks the house we’d chose above all others was finally ours.

What have we done??!!!

As we’d been down this road before I hadn’t even booked a day off work.. I was half expecting it to fall through again so I took the call.. text my husband the news then carried on with my busy day of meetings and presentations.   At around 14:00 it crossed my my mind that I should probably make plans to pick up the keys.  So I picked up the phone (well it was a “Madonna like ” headset as handhelds are so ’80s and dialled the agents. What else could go wrong…

Alas, my premonition was well founded.  On ringing the agents I was told that… even though it was a good few hours since I had been told, that I couldn’t pick up the keys… they hadn’t heard it had completed!   So from there I call my solicitor who speaks with the other side and says this is not true and that they’ve known since 11 am!   I had no choice then but to wait to hear from them… finally at 4.30 I got a call… “congratulations you’ve completed”   I thanked them for this of date information and booked into pick up my keys.  After a few minutes of formalities… (we are renting out our first house so needed to sign contracts etc) I headed to my new home…

It had happened, I had the keys in hand…  my first thought having entered  was more like… oh crap!  What do we do next vs leaping over the threshold with glee….