That's one way to describe this soon-to-be-charming house.
To look at it, you'd think it was the little house on the prairie, but step inside, look closer...........
It is in fact, a money-grabbing, rotten little pear. The cutest, potential filled rotten little pear, but a rotten little pear nonetheless.
This poor house has been horribly neglected for so long, that there is nothing but horror after horror with alot of it. Nothing that can't be sorted without a lot of time and a heap of cash, but oh my days! Every job you do reveals another five that must be done before the job can be completed.
The move went as well as these things do, and there has been non-stop activity since. The first ten days was cleaning. So much crust and grease. A million dog hairs just everywhere; up the walls and under the floors and in the drains and matted around the damn shower head. Indeed, I have knitted several jumpers from it. One for each of you. I am still finding them in abundance, so if you catch a thread, no matter.
Truly, truly disgusting. And the odour was quite something to behold and then to shift. Thank the sweet Lord for Cif, soda crystals, rubber gloves and friends. Not necessarily in that order.
Anyhow, it's all mine now, and it's getting cosier and more like home as each day goes by. The association have done a few things that are their responsibility, so we'll get there if it kills us.
The location is still amazing me, and we have seen so many proper native species of creature that I thought were gone, I can hardly believe it. There are funky spiders and snails with proper squirly yellow and brown shells. We've had toads and little lizards in the garden and an owl hooting to it's baby. There are muntjac deer in the woods, and finches, herons, bats, rabbits and wildlife everywhere.
The cows that roam in there are coca-cola coloured, and they come right up to the fence and lick your hands.
So, for now I shall grab a glass of something cold and have a sit down in my newly appointed living room, and have a little chuckle to myself about my rather splendid fortune.
Tee hee...............
