[MotherBear]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, Stevey. You poor soul[img:cea80026d2]http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/aktion/action-smiley-032.gif[/img:cea80026d2]. And I thought I was hard done by. These childhood operations often have a habit of wreaking havoc when they are performed on us adults and you seem to have copped the whole bifta. Thank goodness you?re on the mend now. You must be sure to rest and build your strength up now. We?ll have to send out healing vibes to one another until we?re both fully back on our feet again.

Sorry you?ve had no luck on the house front. I was hoping that?s why you were missing, because you were busy packing up after selling the house. We?ve managed to sell our villa in Spain (I hope) against all odds, as the place was, like a lot of others out there, literally thrown up and it shows. We had to wait over a month for the buyers? money to come through from their house purchase in the UK. On Weds. we were due to complete, but then yesterday there was a frantic call from our agents to say that there was a problem with our paperwork because hubster had a new passport a while ago and it was the details from his old passport that wrongly appeared on the deeds. It appears our solicitor hadn?t bothered to check the paperwork prior to completion, so everyone was caught out on the day. She also turned very uncooperative and would not communicate with our selling agent, who sounded on the verge of committing murder[img:cea80026d2]http://www.kolobok.wrg.ru/smiles/rpg/orc.gif[/img:cea80026d2]. The builder has been uncooperative too and hasn?t bothered to do the snagging list (most of the lights don?t work, amongst other things). Our buyers desperately needed to move into the villa, as they had nowhere to stay and were threatening to pull out of the sale if we couldn?t arrange for them to get keys to move in while the amended paperwork went back to the notary. It all got very hairy [img:cea80026d2]http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/sprachlos/speechless-smiley-040.gif[/img:cea80026d2] for a while and involved several calls and emails to Spain, but things are quiet today so I hope it?s all sorted bar the paperwork being approved by the notary, which we hope will be early next week. I won?t rest until it?s all signed and sealed. I hope, when it happens, that your house sale will go more smoothly.

Well, that's me and now Stevey, who's next? Got to be a third to complete the set.