Patience is a virus

So our buyer's house didn't sell at auction.

So he has had 3 or 4 offers after the auction.

So we have to wait to see if he accepts any of them and whether they are subject to cumbersome conditions.

Meanwhile we have to try to sell our house to someone else as per the cash out clause.

So we have an open home tomorrow. Groan.

On the positive side our potential buyer has extended his contract so he WILL buy ours if he's sold his house by March 13. But gee whizz, time is marching on and I'm not working and we are getting older!!!

And we've been paying $30.00 a week for a storage shed for the purposes of decluttering - can't continue that with not much money coming in so we've schlepped it all back home. Literally, it's a drag.

Once more, there's a silver lining - Allen now realises that we can't keep everything - he saw how little storage space most places have. And I've got into a routine of putting things on Trade Me just about every day. Slowly, things are selling and Allen delivered a couple of mattresses to St Vincent de Paul yesterday which they were grateful to get - they'd been barely used so didn't fall into the category of the urine soaked items often left outside by people wanting to get rid of their junk!

I hope that there's a happy outcome to our buyer's multiple offers - and soon.

The photo was sent to me yesterday by my cousin and is a great record of my father and his 7 siblings in old age. I haven't seen the family for many years but remember their names: Leith, Jack, Bob, Cecil, Jim, Nancy, Spotty, Winnie - the latter 4 are the girls.