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Have rang Your Move about housies; fixed up an appointment (pending confirmation) to view two tomorrow, one of which is in Great Lever, and also a meeting about a mortgage. Just to see what they can offer, really. I can see definite advantages to getting them both from the same place - the estate agent doesn't have to try so hard to convince the mortgage people that the house isn't a pile of crap, and there may be financial incentives - but I am also wary about such things as captive audiences and not shopping around. Though I have already shopped around a bit (ie, checked several mortgage calculators online).

Anyone?

UPDATE: One of them has gone, so I am ringing the Halifax about other housies in the area. More as we get it.
UPDATE UPDATE: Halifax no answer phone. Will try again tomorrow morning, hoping that they do same-day viewings, or that they do viewings on Sunday also.

Gran

After being declared cancer-free and returning home, Gran went a bit mental in the head. They thought it might be anaemia following the surgery, but she got worse - started seeing spaniels and complaining that people were trying to poison her - and so the doctors took her back into hopsital for tests. Apparently the cancer had spread a bit further than they thought and she's now very very poorly. Apparently she might not last much longer.

I was going to write something about how great she was, but I don't think I can do that without crying, which would not really be appropriate in the office. I thought it was something I'd prepared for - she's been deteriorating for a while now, so I've been thinking she's old and will die soon, and since the operation and mentalness I've been a bit concerned every time Mum's phone rang, wondering if this would be the one - but to have Mum ring up and tell me it's actually official diagnosis that she May Not Make It ... it just makes it real instead of random pessimism, which is upsetting. I fear change, and to have somebody not be there who always has before is the very worst kind.

As Peter David said, in life there are no happy endings. There are happy times, but they're not endings, which is why they're happy. In real life all endings are sad.

The end.

CafePress

Apparently there have been some problems with the Cafepress.com system over the past day or so, so they're giving everybody a 25% discount on selforders.

If anyone wants to order anything from the somewhat aged http://www.cafeshops.com/kingandy, let me know and I'll let you take advantage of meit... provided there's some way for me to easily get it to you. This is mostly directed to people I can or will see in person, apologies to all those in forn parts.

Oh, also if people want me to put any other images from http://www.andysdrawings.co.uk up there, now is the time to let me know.