Life On Hold and I'm becoming a grumpy sod

This might sound really mad but at the moment we are feeling that our life is somehow on hold.

All the decluttering has been done, the little jobs are finished and our home is spic and span and waiting for a potential buyer to beat a path to our door.

But (and you knew there was going to be a but didn't you) the people we are buying the house from in Kent  are having problems, the house that they were looking to buy has some issues - not sure what they are but they must be dramatic because they have pulled out of the purchase. That means that they are now running around looking for somewhere else to buy.  

So where does that leave us? Well at the moment we feel stranded, we don't particularly want to pull out from buying the new house but equally we don't want to be kept hanging around for the other people to sort themselves out.  Does that sound harsh?  well probably, but I make no apologies for feeling aggrieved because when we viewed the house they told us that they were as keen as we were for a quick sale as they were planning to come off the property ladder and rent for a couple of years.

As you can imagine the phone lines between Cheshire and Kent are buzzing away and hopefully we will be able to get something resolved in the next day or so but what we're not prepared to do is to be kept hanging around for ever while they get their act together.

So what do we do in the meantime - well we're thinking of running way - the weather has been awful for the past week and we don't fancy going away in the van spending our well earned rest cloud dodging - so sod it, we're going to get on airplane and fly away to somewhere hot and sunny (not next week though, I don't fancy battling through an airport on a bank holiday/half term weekend)