Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out

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less we forgot

at the end of 2015, we were exhaustively looking for a house to live in, having sold our farm, looking to downsize.

we were parked up in the car park opposite this house and i said to Lucy, 'what about that one?'

it was considerably overgrown and looked quite derelict but there was a window open at the top of the house and a light was on.

a few days later i stuck a note through the letterbox (as we have done with many other houses over the years) not really expecting a reply

but a week later the lady of the house did reply and said she was thinking about selling soon but she just had 'a few things to sort out'

we started renting a bit of a Jacobean mansion in a forest not too far away

a year and a half later we were extending our rental period again, and again

on july 14th 2017, i took this picture of the house we still hoped to live in

my mentor/counsellor/friend maryann suggested we had this picture pinned to a board in our rental kitchen, for positive visualisation (man)

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oct 2017

after a few months of positive visualisation (man) and almost two years after sticking the note through the door, we FINALLY did the deal and bought this house

we bought the house without a survey and only had a little look about

keep the faith!

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this was such a nicer view to the procession of people that piss in the corner outside our house or sit in the piss puddle and do drugs

but it was kinda dark

and the hawthorn was growing both sides of the windows: inside and outside

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hard to remember what it was like when we took over

i miss the jungle

gonna start a new one

don't miss the caravan

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work in progress

the view today

cannot WAIT (but have to) for the pointing to be finished, the last ground floor windows to be painted and in, AND for the scaffolding to come down.

by Christmas it SHOULD be finished-ish, on the outside at least

Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: October 16, 2019