Time Wasters Welcome.
Our house is currently on the market. We've been doing some decorating and no one had been round to view it for a couple of weeks. Consequently the house has been a huge mess.
We heard on Thursday evening that a couple wanted to see it on Saturday 11am. Mad rush to finish painting, not helped by D.I.Y. dog keen to lend a paw - varnishing floors at 1am Friday night, up at 7am Saturday morning cleaning, hoovering, re-arranging entire house and garden, trying to make it look presentable.
Finished at 10.59am - I made coffee, at 11am knock at the door - couple enter house, 11.13am - couple leave house. 13 minutes! A new record! A crazy whirl of manic panicing and building up our hopes, dashed in a moment.
As soon as we saw them, we knew they wouldn't want the house, they wouldn't understand it, it wouldn't work - they needed something smarter, newer, cleaner, less like us.
Still, what can you do - we've viewed houses that we were pretty certain we wouldn't want - you need to see a few to decide what you really do want. Also we now have a nice tidy house and we finished the bedroom that we could have spent another week decorating.
We have been knackered the rest of the day. So it's an early night tonight though I've already set the alarm for 12.45am in hope of seeing the lunar eclipse.