MMIL6 (My Mother In Law)

The Power of Prayer reveals itself once again.

Many years ago McCathy and Stone acquired a plot a few yards up the road and built 'Ocean Spray', 73 flats for the elderly and dependent. In the process they pile drove (drived) the whole street with such gusto that drains collapsed and cracks appearing in walls of neighbouring houses. To cut a long story short, reparations were made and documents deposited to indicate that all had been restored and the neighbours satisfied to receive a detailed document to confirm all the measures that were taken. Now that the old house is infested with viewers, interested to purchase, it has become necessay, nay mandatory, to find The Document referred to earlier since any surveyor worth his/her fee will want to be satisfied that all remains well.

MMIL is certain 'The Document' is not at the old house, not anywhere. ('McCarthy and Stone will have one won't they') She's searched the whole place, 'top to bottom' without finding it. 'It's a mystery.' MMIL claims.

We suspect she's been too busy ferring the odd glass vase, defunct upright hoover, and scores of RD Free Gifts to the tip, in fact doing ANYTHING to avoid the filing cabinets in the dining room. More pressure is applied and eventually........she finds The Document, yes, in the top drawer of the filing cabinet. MMIL claims it was the 'extra' prayers she offered up that did the trick.

The document has to go the solicitor sometime today. A letter from the Estate Agent (EA) arrives this morning confirmating of the first offer, SUBJECT TO CONTRACT. MMIL is convinced she's  home-and-dry. 'So they won't need to see 'The document'. 'There's not much point now is there!'

She's right of course, 'subject to contract!

MMIL5

Did you hear that bump? Another offer of the asking price for the old home has been deposited.
MMIL's getting very excited, but feeling a little overwhelmed with the amount of sorting to be done.    
We're trying to encourage her to do as much as she can BEFORE moving! MMIL's suggesting she would have more time to bring the stuff down here and THEN sort it!

She has a cupboard full of old Christmas/birthday cards, saved from the last 10 years or so, nothing of value. MMIL's worried about all the shredding she has to do; she says she can't put the cards in for re-cycling because they all have names in - they're pesonal!!

MMIL has this vision of rows of people in some huge warehouse hand-sorting items and being unable to recycle 'personal' cards. She's fastidiously removing all traces of her name on everything she's chucking out. She's right to be careful: her bank have written to her this week to confess that some scum-bag has her credit card details and has been spending freely for the past week or so! I warned her she shouldn't have joined that online poker club!

MMIL4

We can hardly keep up!
Today Sunday, we're just 'going out', going to Cheltenham to the 'German Market' for no other reason than we can. The estate agents are all closed and we need to get out; away from phones, bungalows brochures and viewings. We live two lives. The first and most consumimg is as PA's to MMIL and the other,our own lives, slotted in when time allows. We even discussed MMIL during Strickly-come-Dancing last night!
There's no questioning MMIL's committment. 'Looks like she's favouring the new build bungalow with hot-air exhange, and soft-touch kitchen drawers as standard. She's very brave to move without question to another climatic zone (it rains a lot in Cheshire) another culture (Rugby and Choirs)and language (tongue as in sung, not tongue as in song)
Three viewings at the house yesterday. Asked when she might consider moving, MMIL replied Christmas!
God love her!