It's hard to imagine that so much is different this year, than last year. The weather is the same (it always rains on a bank holiday in the UK!), but instead of living in the tiny rented house and spending every spare minute (and penny!) on the house, we are now firmly settled into TBISO. The furnishings are still 'work in progress' and will be for a while as we find and buy pieces we like, but this time last year we didn't even have a roof on....this months major purchase is a clock to go in the living room, it's very hard to find one that is a bit different as well as being BIG - the joy of a 3m high ceiling means that we need large items to make an impact.
The paperwork mountain is slowly declining - although each time I knock off a bit and close the file on that particular part, weeks later they come back with more questions and we are once again digging around for information. The hardest part at the moment seems to be proving who we are to SSE (whom we have been a customer of for nearly 10 yrs!), and that we have indeed done a self build... All to get the PV panels registered and SSE paying us money for once, rather than taking it from us. The council tax ratings have also come back this week, and they are wrong, so yet more paperwork needed to dispute the ratings... Will it ever end? Sometimes I think we will be shovelling paperwork forever - but at least the mortgage is all sorted now and building control have no need to come back ever again...
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