We finally found a flat!

Six weeks ago (yes, SIX weeks), when we first started looking for somewhere, we saw a very nice flat in a block about two minutes from the station. It was just about big enough for us (the only niggle being that the kitchen is a little small) and has a garden and a parking space (not that we have a car, but always useful for visitors). The trouble was it was too expensive, by about £200pcm.

Well yesterday we got it. They've knocked that £200 off the price and we finally have a flat.

We were in Wimbledon all day yesterday frantically trying to find something. We walked into this agents just to chance our luck and they tried to offer us the flat. We explained that we'd already seen it and while we really like it, it was just too expensive. The agent got on the phone there and then and knocked the guy straight down. It was brilliant.

And now no more trips out house hunting. We can finally have a life again (for two more weeks until we have to start packing).

We didn't get the flat. After putting the deposit down on Friday, the owner decided on Monday that he didn't want a kid in the flat. Despite the agent assuring us Tommy wouldn't be a problem (and letting us see the place twice knowing we had a child), he was a problem. Funnily enough, I love my son more than the flat and losing the flat was easy. Even now, I feel now sense of loss for the place - more annoyance at the hassle of starting the search again.

There is, however, hope. We started looking yesterday. One was too small; the other just that little bit too expensive. Today we were booked in for two - we never made it to the second.

We've put another holding deposit down on a ground floor flat in a gated block. It's big enough for us, has a gas hob (much to Yuri's delight) and a little spot just outside the kitchen door (it opens onto the fire escape) that's just perfect for barbeques and drying clothes. Best of all, hiddeen behind a row of trees behind the block is a huge, gorgeous garden with a built in barbeque and, much to Tommy's excitement, a swing! There's even apple trees which both me and Tommy loved. It's just perfect. So we're praying this time everything goes all right.