Our exchange has been delayed again :(

It appears that our purchaser’s solicitor has been less than completely honest with us about the state of the chain below.

Gutted… again !

BBC News:

It took the jury of 10 men and one woman just an hour and a half to return the not guilty verdicts, after a trial which lasted nearly six and a half weeks.

I’m glad that Trupti Patel has been found not guilty. It was

obious as soon as the case began that she was innocent. Yet more public money wasted though. I think that someone needs to sit down and come up with a better way to investigate infant deaths. Clearly assuming that a parent has murdered the child because there’s no simple explanation is just wrong.

You have to admire Manchester United. Getting rid of Beckham for ?30 million just has to be a good deal. He’s 28 now, so he’s got maybe 3 or 4 good seasons left so MU have already had his best… It looks even better from MU’s point of view if they do get the 23 year old Ronaldinho for ?9 million from Paris!

Today, so far, has been quite productive! I’ve actually got productive work done and haven’t had to deal with any major crisis all day! Who knows? I might even meet this week’s deadline!

Clearly my whinging worked :)

from one crisis to the next! It’d be nice if I was given enough notice that I could actually plan stuff…

when you don’t get up and dressed until lunchtime :)

Reinstalled my main PC lastnight/today, so hopefully it’ll run nice and fast now :)

Complaining works!

Having complained bitterly to Equity about the length of time required to give my solicitor some documents, I got a response this morning. The lady in the customer service department who had to deal with my complaint has managed to change a 10 day turnaround into a 2 day turnaround and has promised that we’ll definitely have the documents by end of play on Monday!

What a result!

We found out today that we can’t exchange tomorrow due to a cock-up somewhere that means that we won’t get some essential documents for our sale until next week at the earliest.

I am livid and depressed at the same time. After many phone calls today, I have discovered that the Management company (called Equity plc) have lousy customer service and have such an inefficient legal team that a job my solicitor reckons his company could do in less than 24 hours will take then 8 days :(

What I can’t work out is why we didn’t know this earlier. Our solicitor has been saying to use that we are ready to exchange for a while now and then this comes up… So either he was telling me something wrong or I was missunderstanding what was said. Have to find out tomorrow and I’m really worried that it’s me that missunderstood ;(

I do know that our solicitor has been trying to get the documents from equity since mid May. He seemed to believe (whenever we spoke about it) that the documents from equity would be “any day now” whilst Equity seem to have sat on their hands. They certainly haven’t answered emails and when you try to phone them, you aren’t allowed to talk to the legal department so can’t find out the truth anyway. Talking to the “customer service” agents doesn’t help. I phoned three times today and got three different answers to the same question.

So I’m pissed off with Equity plc, my solicitor, me and the whole process.

Actually, that’s wrong, my overriding feeling is that I’m gutted :(

Ed regularly takes photos of Steph and posts them in the “On my desktop:” section of his blog. Where are the archives so that we can see lots of pictures of Steph?

Maybe Ed just wants to keep them to himself… can’t say I blame him!

Update I’ve been told to look on Salopian Tube and with a bit of clicking I worked out that I should go here!