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rst second and third what am i bid s were met with no response this prompted someone else to join in after a brief bidding skirmish you couldn t call it a war too short and fairly half hearted on the other guy s part the hammer was about to come down mr u t b though he had been raising his hand quite emphatically had convinced himself that there was a third bidder directly behind him and it was him that was about to get the property although the bidding hadn t reached mr u t b s limit he d decided not to bid any further and was happy to let the third bidder have the property when the auctioneer said your bid man in the checked shirt mr u t b looked down and found that he was in fact wearing a checked shirt this should not have been a surprise as he rarely wears any shirt other than a checked one and the hammer fell gulp when you buy at auction you complete a mere twenty working days later so very soon we found ourselves with the keys and going to take a closer look at what we d lumbered ourselves with the sweet little cottage let s take a look around you enter straight into the kitchen dining room it s rather dark in there as there are just three small windows two of which are high in the wall so you can t look out plenty of kitchen cupboards though even if not to my taste windows 80s replacements totally out of keeping with the age of the property off the kitchen is a lobby the back door and a cramped and impractical utility room yellow so bright it may be easier to knock it down than cover it up the sitting room is dominated by a not too authentic fireplace red carpet and the stairs the staircase oozes 60s 70s new housing vibe not keen upstairs is a very long corridor with three changes in level and three bedrooms and a bathroom leading off this is the second bedroom with its door leading up to the attic i like this quirky door and we discovered there was some sort of wood panelling beneath the layer of woodchip possibly exciting we scraped a bit of paper away stripped back this could be a nice feature perhaps the colour schemes need re thinking i m not a fan of the deep pink eau de nil magnolia and purples though that little cupboard is kind of sweet the bathroom is upstairs that is its only redeeming feature the mushroom pink suite yellow walls red carpet carpet and gold glitter loo seat plus the mirror tiles above the bath and brown woodwork won t be staying it was going to be a challenge but that s what we wanted right posted by used to bees at 10 39 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 3 march 2016 in which we attend a saturday viewing so we d stuck a toe in the housing market by putting my flat on the market and after one viewing it had sold with this fresh in our minds we headed back to wiltshire to have a look at the cottage that was up for auction it was a beautiful sunny day no that s not it although a town the centre of cricklade is quite small there are lots of attractive mostly georgian houses and a peaceful atmosphere that s not it either this one was for sale but not up for auction and not within our budget although part of the plan was to downsize the aptly named little cottage would be a step too far methinks my fabric alone would fill this place yeah it s not this one either we had a coffee in a friendly independent grocery tea room and a wander around we chatted to a couple of locals at some length about gardens and model aeroplane flying this does not happen in aldershot where mostly people avoid eye contact in case you might dare to say hello to them this made me giggle we went to the open house for the cottage we chatted with the agent and the owner and had a look around it wasn t a love at first sight moment more a poor little house it needs taking under someone s wing type of thing the cottage is approached from the high street down a passageway leading past the house that fronts onto the high street from the high street you see four large windows and a door to the side but the door is not the front door to any house it s a door to the passage leading to the front house and then beyond to the cottage this is the passageway and that door just before the gate is the door to our cottage the white and stone part is ours the cream part is the house on the high street there is a rather unattractive rear extension that was added in the 60s and a falling apart shed but at least it has net curtains you need a bit of privacy in your shed the garden though small is larger than we have here and it has a lovely old brick wall there s also a large paved area beside the extension inside the kitchen diner is well supplied with cupboards and worksurfaces there s an enormous range style cooker but if i was churning out the quantities of food this beast could produce we d be hard pressed to fit in all the guests required to eat it it s also rather dark there s a cloakroom utility room but the washing machine door bangs into the loo loading the washing machine over the loo doesn t seem like the greatest idea in the sitting room there s a not too authentic looking fireplace with a condemned gas fire oh and swirly deep pink carpet but there is a beautiful genuinely old door the first real bit of history we found in the place upstairs there are three fairly good sized bedrooms all are challenged in the decorating department that s an old cupboard with a nice old door a keeper not like the wallpaper the master bedroom has almost bearable wallpaper but it also has a useful ridge to trip over in the middle of the carpet leading from the bedroom with the cute cupboard is a narrow staircase to two further attic rooms no windows here but potential even if they are disguised as a giant billiard table at the moment so not exactly your dream cottage but it was just crying out love me we repaired to the local hostelry which you may have seen in a recent episode of jamie and jimmy s friday night feast lunch was so good that the pros of the place seemed to far outweigh the cons we d go to the auction i mean we probably wouldn t get it we ve watched enough homes under the hammer to know these events are always packed with people desperately fighting it out and paying way over the guide price posted by used to bees at 09 58 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 28 february 2016 climbing back aboard for a new adventure so what s the best approach to adopt when you inadvertently fail to update your blog for nearly two years i think maybe the best bet is to just get on with it pretty much as if nothing happened i mean nothing really did happen no really big life changes just maybe not having enough that i was interested in enough to spend time boring telling my readers about it things have of course moved on a bit miss u t b did that thing that children will and grew up enough to head off to the north in search of a university education mr u t b retired for about the third time this time properly no more lessons no more financial managing and no more board meetings freedom and then a series of things happened none of them major which has resulted in the adventure that we are just embarking on first i decided that enough was enough and the woodchip wallpaper on the stairs and landing would have to go this involved peeling two extremely stubborn layers of paper off an awful lot of wall my brain has mostly erased the pain and boredom of this but i seem to remember it took about six weeks we then plastered and painted and re carpeted ending up rather pleased with the results walking into town one day a wave of something risky overcame both mr u t b and i we decided to go into an estate agent and get them to come and give us a valuation what with the house finally having that walk through the door appeal we d only a year before upped the kerb appeal by replacing the old front door of every first day back at school photo ever taken with one we rescued from along the terrace last day at school then a pane of edwardian decorative glass above the front door became broken we didn t want the estate agent to base his valuation on a house with a broken window but replacing the glass in time meant we had to drive to cheltenham to collect it and that s when fate decided to lead us a merry dance zipping along the a419 mr u t b saw a sign saying cricklade a saxon town let s have a look at that he says so we do and it s rather lovely we have a wander and some fish and chips first town on the thames and there s this place up for auction long story short as they say we are now the somewhat surprised owners of a grade ii listed cottage in desperate need of updating and we sold our house so i guess in the words of the village people it s time to go west actually and this is very strange and makes me think this move is fate on the afternoon we were waiting to hear from the estate agent that it was all okay and we could collect the keys there had been some doubt as to whether the sale would fall through i was listening to radio 2 and this song was played and about ten minutes later the phone call came tune in next time for the photos that will show we may need our heads examining posted by used to bees at 18 04 15 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to comments atom me and my blog used to bees hello i m alix often to be found in a rather chaotic workroom surrounded by salvaged textiles liberty fabrics and a tangle of embroidery floss creating things that make me smile when not stitching i enjoy baking and eating cake cooking epic sunday roasts to share with family and friends and hunting for treasure in unlikely places home is a wedge shaped end of terrace in hampshire england which i share with the long suffering mr u t b and our seventeen year old daughter ellen view my complete profile my workshops the happy little stitchery previously on used to bees 2016 3 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