After I got the phone call from Julian at Bushnell Porter on Wednesday, it set me thinking. If I did nothing about it and left it until after Christmas and New Year, I could lose a possible sale. If I did do something about this, I could be possibly be home and dry a lot sooner than I originally thought. The other thing is that I've seen somewhere to rent in Whitchurch that I rather fancy. I have seen other places but haven't been able to do anything about them and have had to let them go. I know that if I don't do anything about this then I will be kicking myself.

I was thinking about it overnight and throughout Thursday as well and decided that I would take the "out" and go and see Julian on Friday and talk to him.

On Friday I did go and see Julian. We had a long and very productive conversation. I then went over to Mum's as she was keeping me some of the soup that she'd been able to make. I told her that I'd been to see Julian and what we'd talked about. She did put her views across which did set me off and we did have a bit of a bust up, not good. While I was there, Julian rang me. He had spoken to the gentleman and told me that he hasn't discounted my flat, which is good. But he is having a bit of trouble trying to sort out a "buy to let" mortgage. What I hadn't realised (I should point out that I know absolutely nothing about mortgages) that with the interest rate drop recently, it has pretty much knocked out all of the "buy to let" mortgages. They are coming back slowly and the best that this gentleman can do is a 6% mortgage with 2.5% arrangement fee. As I've said I know nothing about mortgages but that's not good at all. I won't know anything more for a couple of weeks as the gentleman is going on holiday for 2 weeks.

When I got back home, I did ring Mum and apologised for going off on one. I have realised that she is going fight me every step of the way. This is because she is being my Mum and that she is worried.