Putting my flat on the market

I only planned to pop up the road to get a newspaper, and ended up selling my flat.

OK not quite but that's about what happened on Saturday morning. I have to pass two estate agents on my way to the newsagents and so I thought I would pop in to see if any of them had anything good for sale.

With the first agent I went to look at an OK property on the other side of the island and mentioned on the way back that I was just about to put my property on the market with another agent. I had planned on going to the other agent and sorting it out, that afternoon. So the agent, being a salesmen, offered me a deal. 1.5% fee rather than 1.95% they had offered when they valued my flat the other week. The other agent was offering 1.85% so I accepted the deal and will let them market the flat.

So the process has started hopefully it won't be too much of a roller coaster ride.

Protecting the Stormtroopers

Last week was the 8Th London Sci-Fi festival, which we are regular visitors too. Well regular visitors to the Sci-Fi pub quiz which is held on the last day and is a slightly alcoholic but fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

This year I decided to give a little back and volunteered to help out. Most of my duties were things like tidying up and manning the front desk, but there were a couple of stand out tasks.

One was helping out in the projector room, the festival which is mostly movies is held in a cinema in central London, seeing all the bits of equipment and reels of film.

The other top task was to be bodyguard to some Star wars Stormtroopers, who were helping to promote the festival. They may have ruled the empire and fought their way across the galaxy but they needed guarding from the general public so their armour didn't get damaged!

Decision in principle

Went to see the Mortgage advisor yesterday to give me a firm figure of how much they are will to give me.

They couldn't quote me much in the way of valid rates as it was the last day of the month and apparently they all change on the start of the month (they could have told me before hand) still I'm still 3 months until my old mortgage switches to the expensive standard variable rate so should be able to sort something out nearer the time.

I checked their rates this morning and the 3yr tracker has dropped 0.5% from yesterday.

So in theory the money is sorted, the next step is to get a HIP (home information pack).

Birthday treat and advice

We (Russ, Nick and Myself) had a great little birthday trip to Thorpe park adventure park.

We raced around with priority tickets, tried out most of the rides and got a bit sun burnt (it rained all week and was sunny, just long enough for our trip, which was nice!).

The best ride was Nemesis, with lots of lovely looping and a real feeling or whooshing back and forwards.

A word of warning, we did a ride called the Samurai which rotates on three axis and really screwed up our balance for several hours. fortunately we did that ride after all the other, as the park was closing, and so we could wimp out of doing any more because they wouldn't let us.

I still get the odd 'body memory' of flipping over backwards now after 5 days.