Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: House Purchase is 'Go!'

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

House Purchase is 'Go!'

Mrs Turbo Man always says that things happen for the best, and so it seems with our house purchase. Our previous choice fell through as the survey revealed far too many issues for me, or indeed the mortgage company, to be bothered with. However, last weekend we made another trip north to view another 10 properties but knowing that if we didn't find anything suitable we would stop looking until the New Year. We saw some real dogs of properties, some that needed a great deal of work, and one or two really, really nice ones. After discussing what we had seen, this morning we made an offer that was accepted this afternoon. So we are now back into the house purchase spiral of watching money disappear from our account faster than donuts at a fat kids birthday party! But the house is lovely, it is located at the end of a no-through road right on the green belt so we will go out of the garden straight into the fields; ideal for the dog. It is very tastefully decorated (although one bedroom has been decorated for their young daughter that will need a lick of paint) and the kitchen has, at some point in the past, been extended and updated and includes one of those very nice range style ovens (with 8 hobs!) that they are leaving for us. It also has a large conservatory that almost doubles the size of the lounge and has a good sized garden overlooking the fields. It is only 2 bedrooms but with our boys now aged 17 and 15 we won't need more for very much longer and so we will make do; other than the bedrooms it ticked every one of our 'want/need' boxes.

Changing the subject completely, I spoke to my colleague who was knocked off his bike last week. He is absolutely fine; it seems the frame took the full force of the impact and he described his contact with the ground as 'like sitting down on the sofa'. And as Andy said in his reply to my previous post, the individual has been identified and is being dealt with by the police. My colleague is going to get a new bike out of it so it seems like it's a happy ending, if getting knocked off your bike could ever be described as a 'happy' occasion.

I'm still enjoying too much cake and not enough training, although my jog/walk training is now up to 5 mins jog/2 mins walk that equates to a 4:25 marathon if I could sustain it.

Stay safe folks.