An interesting weekend

Popped down to the barn yesterday to take some measurements of our barn plot and the extra land that our neighbour, Michael, had marked out.

As we arrived the drizzle got heavier. We struggled to get the car up the 'drive', donned our macs and only had an hour to take some critical measurements before heading off to Leicester for our niece's birthday lunch. We went more or less straight from that to the Royal Naval Association's Trafalgar dinner last night (I was accompanying Shipmate Misan - don't ask) so didn't have time to draw up our measurements until this morning ...

... and found we hadn't taken enough. So off we went again today in much better weather for a more comprehensive 'survey'. A first attempt to draw it didn't work, so after reflecting whilst Liverpool stuffed Man U, then setting up my new petrol strimmer, the second try made more sense. The land we've got with the barn is not as regular in shape as we first thought. And it's not as big as shown on the contract of sale. That's gonna be our first debate with our solicitor and the selling agents tomorrow.

Then the part of the paddock that the neighbour consortium have marked out to sell to us is an even stranger shape, and we can't see how they've come up with the area they have. Another discussion needed.

But it was a lovely day down there today. If we hadn't had Joy & Mark calling in at Warwick on their way from Swansea to London (it's OK, they've got a welsh satnav) I'm sure we'd have pottered round for a bit longer, maybe even have knocked on Darren's new door (he's hoping to finish the farmhouse for Christmas) and had a chat with him and a look at our barn from his courtyard. Have to leave that 'till next weekend now.

So Misan's going to make a few calls tomorrow to see how we can sort out these boundary issues before completion on 3 Nov. Keep your fingers crossed.