Today was the train trip, the trip to Blackpool to pick up the car and then onward to Sheffield for work. Left bright and early, at around 6:40, caught the train from severn tunnel then onward to Birmingham. Change trains to Preston where I spent an ideal half hour discussing politics and the state of UK education with a chap on his way to Wolves.
Swap train at Preston for the final leg to Blackpool, horrible journey with a freaky dude sat behind me talking to himself – the further North on this trip the weirder the people got. So found my self at the end of the line at Blackpool South, and a car park, and no station, and no Mr BMW with my car. A few phone calls later and I was safely in the Blackpool dealership with a drink and my book.
Shortly later “Dave” came with my car, quick show and tell on the control and one swipe of the card and I was an owner of a 530i. Lovely. Now for a 100 mile trip over to Sheffield, taking in some motorway and the Snake Pass.
House update, Bovis now want to change the “cost price” of the houses, so no change to the overall cost to change, just for what they state they want the houses to appear to cost. Just a paper exercise you might think, but no, if they put the one up from 121000, to 129000 then that means we are liable for Stamp Duty – £1300. So I was not happy, and made them aware of that.
Also found that my bank statements didn’t have my name on, so might be rejected, and we forgot to send off one of the declarations.
In other news we checked the leak and the wet wall – it appears the overflow from the toilet is not coming out of the overflow pipe, but somewhere else – we don’t know where, but it might explain the wet wall problem we have. Also my computer power fan sounded like it was shot this morning – so ordered a new one, now the fan sounds fine…