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Losing momentum
My usually optimistic, enthusiastic, nature is taking a battering. There are only so many ups and downs one person can go through before losing the [...]
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The mortgage maze
I feel like a double glazing salesman, phoning around trying to get someone to bite using the same script that has been rejected by hundreds [...]
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Notes to a lender
Dear Mr/Ms Mortgage Lender, I hope you’re well and are having a good start to the week. I realise that you don’t know me and [...]
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Plan A: The revival
This blog is dedicated to our mortgage broker who, in my excitement and impatience, received a text from me at 9.30 last night. He is [...]
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And it was all going so well…
I just found out that we’ve been turned down for the mortgage we were trying to get. This is not the worst thing that could [...]
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Addicted to social media
By day I am a strategy consultant, working at one of the top 100 digital agencies in the UK. By night I am a blog [...]
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My perfect guesthouse
Everyone’s an expert! Or so it seems. Everybody we speak to about this project knows exactly what they’d cook for breakfast, how the rooms would [...]
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Catching the bus
Tomorrow I am going to Bristol. This, in itself is not unusual, my other half is from Bristol so we’re down there quite a lot. [...]
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Freak Out #1 and #2
As those of you who know me well can testify, I have been prone to the odd ‘freak out’ in the past. As a rule, I’m good with the big stuff – divorce, death, break-ups, etc. it’s the little things that make me insane [...]
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Full steam ahead
I don’t think I quite believe we’re actually doing this. I’m planning awards we’re going to win while my more realistic other half is thinking [...]
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