Our original intention was to move onto the boat in May and put our house up for sale this summer, as I mentioned in an earlier post, however, our adventure has started much quicker than we could have imagined. Following the England vs Wales game at Twickenham (mid March) we arrived home to find a letter through the door. We at first thought it was a circular and nearly binned it, but looking at it again it had a little comment on it saying hand delivered. Intrigued we opened the letter to find it was from a family who were keen to move to Southerndown and were interested in buying our house, the details of which were still lurking in zooplas depths, despite the fact it was off the market. To cut a long story short, they visited, loved the house, well it was a lovely house, and have bought it. In the craziest 7 weeks of our lives we are now on our boat as full time liveaboards.
Of cause we could have put an offer in on a house by the Thames like this little number, but, I suspect our offer may have been rejected
So instead we are living on the boat currently moored in Abingdon
And it certainly cheaper to run.
Our very good friends Paul and Jackie gave up their time to help us realise our dream and without them things could never have happened so quickly as they did. Jackie is an ebay grand master and listed (and still is listing) many of our possessions. Lots of others have gone to charity and I hope find good homes, others are with friends and neighbours. We were also extremely lucky to have great neighbours in Bob and Jackie who tirelessly ferried 30 odd years of horded junk to the tip for us.
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