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News and Pains from the land of all that Dazzles

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What a difference 2 months makes.

I can't believe it's been 2 months since my last update. We have now picked our Kitchen and Bathroom suite and I have been unduly slated for the amount of AV sockets I have installed in the Living Room by everyone who has been out to the house for a 'look' without being invited. I now have a list of who is banned from visiting us in the future. That's most of Mrs Dazza's family banned anyway. So here are the latest photo's which were taken yesterday: and one from the front looking in..
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We're on a roll

I have just spoken to our solicitors assistant and she has advised that they have received the signed contract in today . The contract outlines a completion date of 16th January :blush: , they want us to do something else for them but it isn't a condition of contract , what should we do?
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Today I Shall Be Watching.....

Big Brother the Live Final. I have decided that if Ashlene (or whatever her name is) wins I shall never watch the show again. If Pete or Glynn win I shall be a happy boy and will demonstrate my happiness with Mrs Dazza, although I haven't decided how just yet.
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Time Has Come!

It seems like less than a week since I gave you all the false alarm scare with the possible delivery of Baby Dazza. Well at 2.30am this morning Mrs Dazza's waters broke so we headed off to the hospital. Mrs Dazza is now on a ward and I got shipped home at 6am. After having no sleep I am on my way back to the hospital with a list of gatherings which Mrs Dazza has sent to me via text (this is over and above the Hospital bag she already has). At time of writing Mrs Dazza has not as yet go
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There's no stopping her.....

Mrs Dazza is off work today and asked me to get together a list of house related stuff for her to do today. I gave her a list as long as my arm (and there were no complaints, just excitement) and as I type she is no doubt either challenging a builder , fighting with the bank about a new mortgage, or in with the solicitor signing documents. She's sooooooooo excited, as long as she keeps up the momentum I can sit back and relax (I wish).
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The wheels have started to move....

Well it's been a while since my last entry , anyway, we gave the house build over to a contractor last week and he stated that it would be a few months before he could start, which we thought was fine as it gives us some time to get a few things sorted. Mrs Dazza passed our site today and witnessed the concrete footing being poured , as much as we are grateful for the quick start, it has taken us back a bit..... Anyway must run as I now have a million things to do in a week. I have decided
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Still waiting....

Well our buyers stated they would contact me yesterday to let me know what they are doing. I have heard nothing and think it might be a tad too early to start chasing them? All this waiting is doing my nut. Mrs Dazza has been getting so excited over the weekend over the hope of completion and as such has started to look at new bathroom suites, furniture etc (WE DON'T HAVE WALLS YET), still there's no harm in enquiring I suppose. I also got home from work to find our bed looking like something ou
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So Close I Can Almost Touch It...

Visited our house buyers today and took them out to the house and explained the few outstanding issues that their solicitor is using against us to prevent them buying. They are kind of trivial matters but their solicitor is playing the high almighty if I say you can't buy, then you can't card. Our buyers are desperate to buy the house and have said that they will now use an alternative solicitor to complete if their existing one won't. Does it all sound confusing? A summary of our woes is as
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Putting my foot right in it.

Well as you all may know we have been swaying too and fro with the whole house disaster situation. Well I sent a text to our buyers yesterday to give them some grief as to what they are doing now that Christmas is over. Low and behold I get a text back saying can't really talk now. Mum died yesterday. Funeral is tommorow, i'll speak to you at the beginning of the week . I didn't know what to say! Those of you who had been reading my blog will have known that the mum was poorly, but still!
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Pre New Year blues

Well the New Year is almost upon us, and yes, owing to the storm that has been passing over us today all our guests have cancelled. There is a stash of booze to be drunk and tonnes of food to be eaten, so looks like the remainder of the night will be filled by getting drunk and fat. Well a Happy New Year to you all.
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New House new...

Well they do say that a new house brings new beginnings and as it has been a while since I made my last blog entry, so I felt that now was a time as good as any to spread some new news. Mrs Dazza and I visited the hospital this morning, for what is our 12 week scan....... Yep, you guessed it, at long last there is a baby Dazza on the way We have been through the usual, who do we tell, when do we tell them, yada yada, but we feel that now the 12 week period is past that we can be a little mor
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Latest Update

Things are really shifting now. Looks like we'll be ready for the roof soon! We also have an outside toilet in a lovely shade of Blue, as donated by the hard working builders............. Anyway, here's the photees: The house from an alternative angle to the norm: The house from the front in full view: The Garage (seeing as its a new addition):
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Just To Clear It Up

Just though I would add this as an after note form my blog entry before. After reading back what I had written it would appear that I am a nasty piece of work that doesn't care about the wellbeing of others, whilst this may be true (well not entirely true), the interest of my family and my own health is a priority. We have become very close to our buyers as we accepted their offer last year and have all gone through a lot over the past year. I am very sad for the buyers, but we just want the hou
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Just As We Were Making Progress.

Just when you think things can't get any worse, we received a call on Saturday morning to say that the husband of our house buyers is in Intensive Care!! The trouble is that he is self employed and this could affect their ability to retain their mortgage to buy our house. You may be thinking, oh well just get another buyer, but its not that simple. I won't go into detail here but Mrs Dazza and I are at the end of our tether! We will have to see what this week brings and take one step at a tim
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It's Official....

Well everyone, it's now official. We have sold . We have received the dosh (sort of) and the house is no longer ours :blush: It nearly never happened yet again, even though we had their signed contracts but that's a story for another day. Anyway, lets just say that our solicitor and her assistant are no longer speaking to me, but hey, why should Mrs Dazza & I be the only victims of one persons incompetance. The solicitor wouldn't even allow us to go and collect our house sale proceeds,
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It's All In The Air....

Finally managed to get hold of the buyers today since the recent incident. The husband appears to be coming out of hospital later today (Friday) although he is not out of the woods yet. Still at least he is still with us . I found out today (Thursday) that I didn't get the job I went for in Belfast, I can't help it if I am useless :unsure: , perhaps Oon may employ me? Still chin up, still applying although I have found that I am battling with the newly released and soon to be exploited stud
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It's A Sad Day...

As they say, 'all good things must come to an end'. I took my beloved 1992 Rover to the exhaust doctor today (Not Kwik Fit though Mick - although that song was going around in my head for the rest of the day B) ), and the lovely exhaust man sad that I needed a complete exhaust . He quoted £275 + VAT + Fitting. The car is also due for MOT on Saturday morning which could add another 2-300 quid in repairs to the bill. So I have had a long chat with Mrs Dazza and we have decided to lay the belove
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Is there a ray of hope in the horizon?

Well I had a phone call a couple of days ago about the house and lets just say it was the most positive phone call I have had in the last 20 months in relation to it. I won't say too much at the moment, but there may be some breaking news in the next 12 months. Oh, and in case you are wondering, YES, I STILL HAVE A COLD.
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Is It Time?

Well Mrs Dazza has gone into hyper mode this morning, cleaning windows, washing up, mopping, doing things she's been putting off for months. Is it all symptoms of nesting! Mrs Dazza was sent to the Hospital during the week by our Obstetrician to have some steriod injections. We were told during our Antenatal appointments that you will normally be given Steroid injections if it was thought you may go into premature labour , you can imaging what was going through our mind at the time. Now Mrs D
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I know, I know, another Blog entry....

Ahem, I believe it has now been 5 years between Blog entries, Daniel is almost 6 and Jacob, oh yes, we had another boy, is 3 and a half. I am not sure if 5 years is a record between posts but I gather most of my followers have either passed on to pastures new, have passed into the blue yonder or have dropped me as a friends for being the most un-active and boring NW member. We had a storm today..... That's all I have to add. Thanks for listening, see you in 5.
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Housey Update.

Well as Beka has asked for it here's the latest house build update. I gave it a break for a couple of weeks as I have been sooooo busy, but here's the latest photo's to add to your gallery! Latest view from the front Looking down the side via the Sun Room View from the back end! (of the Kitchen towards the back door) Looking in through the front door I decided to climb the scaffold to get an overall perspective of the upstair space that we hope to convert in the future. I got th
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House build update and photo's woohoo....

Well I know you have all been waiting eagerly for the house build update so here we go (best explained in photo's) Pre Build 27th Feb 2007: (View from the site) Foundations laid 3rd March 2007: First Layers of Blocks in 10th March: (Mrs Dazza thinks she has spotted something)! Concrete slabs laid and Concrete base complete April 1st 2007: (Hard Dazza!!) Oh what a difference a week makes! April 8th 2007: Well thats it for now...... more updates as they happe
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House Build Update 14 April 2007

Took the opportunity to visit the site again this morning quite early seeing as it was sooooo nice out there . I have taken some more pictures to share with you all (especially Beka). From the naked eye it doesn't look like much has been done, but the builders are at the same level all round now (except the conservatory) and they have also started the secondary internal wall blocks. I also have a dilema. We have a river running down the side of the property (see photo's). I would dearly like
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Hindered by Utilities

Well we are really pushing on with the house now and we appeared to be making super progress (but then the bureaucratic public services bureau got in the way!). The Plasterer has completely finished, the Plumber has been in and finished and we have even had the finished floor level put in, so it now feels a lot more homely. We were hoping to have the heating on to dry things out properly so we can get in and start to put a white wash on the newly plastered walls, the only thing is we need Wate
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Getting there...

Well it's been a long old wait but we're finally getting there. After all of the trouble with the utilities we finally have them in. Believe it or not they both kept their word and the Water was in on the 2nd October and the Electricity on the 11th. We should have the heating on this coming week (although we are still awaiting the glass for the front door - as you can see, but we hope that will be here by the end of the week). The ground works have also been completed and the mounds of earth r
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