Well, we’d packed most of the boxes up and were expecting to get the keys on the Friday before the move date, the appointment to get the keys was at 10am, we received a phone call from the letting agents informing us that my parents cheque had not cleared as hoped, so therefore we could not have the keys that day, unless my parents were able to come up with £1500………………..

I had to ring my mum and explain the situation and I wasn’t convinced that she could get that sort of cash on five minutes warning, anyhow, after phoning her bank she rang me back and said that yes they(my parents) would loan us a further £1500 bringing the total of they’re outgoings  at least temporarily to £2500.

£2500….thats a lot of money to fork out, I love my parents!

So anyhow, my mum couldnt get over to our place untill after she’d finished work, she came straight from work and came down to the agents with us, told me a piece of interesting news on the way over, turns out the cheque had not been cashed when the agents had said it had been, when we pulled the agents up about it they tried to make all sorts of excuses!

We got the keys and signed the agreement at 15.30, only 5.5 hours after we was supposed to be, still it meant we couldnt do a lot that day.