Momentous news! My blogging started in 2007 as an e-Bay advert for my Dutch barge. Yesterday I accepted an offer on it from an unknown investor, possibly based in Saudi Arabia and potentially related to the Saudi Royal Family – although this is pure speculation. He could also feasibly be Russian with a keen interest in Chelsea Football Club. There’s a higher possibility of him being a recently divorced father of two who needs a cheap place to live.
Negotiations were protracted, took all of 30 minutes and Peter Madelson – the UK Trade & Industry Secretary – was not required to intervene.
At least I’ll no longer be paying several grand a year in mooring fees and the house build can progress apace. The proceeds of the sale should allow us to get the walls up and a roof on the house by the end of this year.
The amount agreed on was nowhere near the amount I was looking for, but one has to learn to cut one’s losses in the current economic climate. The thing was starting to become an albatross around my neck and a financial drain – as all boats are unless lived on 365 days a year.
The question now is whether the mission being accomplished should herald the end of by blogging days?
10 comments:
Most excellent news and please keep blogging - The Gay Mafia know where you live!
Richard x x x
Richard: Is that a bit like the Spanish Inquisition, but with chintz?
NO ! NO ! It should inspire further words of wisdom.
Good to hear Joseph is on the move CB, quite fancied it myself but like you I'm in the middle of a house build and I need to sell my current house to finish it off but those dozy bastids Lehmann Bros. killed the housing market right when it was most inconvenient grrrrr!!!
MikeG
If you promise to continue blogging, I promise to start leaving comments... ;)
you can blog about your housebuilding,.. that should have at least a small flair of interest for readers...
Should you stop blogging? Dunno, mate! Could you put up with the rest of the chintzy blogs without being able to reply?
Keep going. I need somewhere to exercise the grey cells.
An argument a day keeps the plumber at bay (or something like that ...)
good to hear you're not retiring completely to your rocking chair, chairman!
Congrats on the sale. Don't stop blogging please. You keep me abreast of all sorts of things happening in UK. And you make me guffaw.
Good lord, that's momentous news! And a little sad, for I came to you via The Barge, Sire!
Still, there's always The Beautiful Barn... and the Banter, Badger...
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