MMIL ( My Mother-In-Law)18

We feel like we're in the middle of a train wreck with The Move. MMIL's being shielded from the anxiety that besets us. The Bung has been put back on the market while the selling of the big house grinds ever slower as suspicions proliferate. We'll be upset to lose the bung while the legal boys fail to react to the sense of concern, tossing irrelevant questions to and fro and not responding to communications.
An in-law discovered quite by accident that the purchaser has submitted a planning permission for major extensions and a swimming pool; we suspect they might be on a go-slow while they test the water.
'Bit sad really since so much careful work is being done to make sure MMIL survives the courageous decision she's made to move away from home and hearth in good spirit and good health.
We are at the mercy of circumstance, but hang on dearly to a sliver of optimism.

MMIL is keeping up her spirits by visiting the TIP every day! I suspect very soon, she'll be lifting the floorboards.

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It's December 23 and there's a mad panic in the air as the world (most of it I suspect) prepares for an annual armageddon, frenzy of to-and-fro, a tsunami of spending, a gushing of intentional goodwill and the taking of time to let things slide happily into a black hole, to be picked in ten days or so, when 'normal' service will be resumed.
A call to MMIL's selling agent this morning asking the question, 'Where are things up to with the purchasors. as we head for Christmas?' and the answer 'We've no idea!' GREAT
A whole 3 weeks has passed and nothing has happened; now for 10 more days when nothing will happen. We suspect by the time 2012 arrives MMIL will be driving to the tip in an empty car and filling up with as much rubbish as she can find, to bring it all back, declaring, to the sound of bouncing marbles, that she's staying put!
Oh well, we're on our way up there tomorrow....expecting the worst! We might be gone sometime....

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The smart money has shifted; there we were thinking it was going to be a long journey. It might yet be so, but........a flurry of activity at the old house has MMIL thinking her prayers are being answered.
    There's an offer of the asking price 'on the table', and while a survey is being arranged, the interest is evident in the steady flow of viewings! One of the viewees, we learn, is sitting in a good position, (in the south-facing window with cup of tea and a chocolate eclaire, enjoying the lovely weather we're having)  with no property dispose of since she's in rented accommodation. MMIL asked, 'What kind of person can consider paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for a house, when they live in rented accommodation!' Once agian we can see where MMIL's coming from!
    For our part we're thinking we'd better get our skateson!  Today we've been looking at bungalows in the villages. Mind you, a sunny day like today could make anything attractive.
    MMIL thinks a brand new house would be nice! There's no stopping her now! How will her furniture look in a brand-spanking new house? NO, DON'T answer that! MMIL's been to the tip again!