It is lovely here today it really feels like summer. Tomorrow we are having the kitchen floor levelled , it is going to take them two days and then they will lay the new flooring on Monday and Tuesday next week and put a new floor in one of the bathrooms,  it will be a bit difficult to do any proper cooking so I think a few takeaways  will be the answer. 
Quite by accident we discovered that a solicitor my mother and I used about 20 years ago was struck of about 10 years ago , Paul and I spent most of yesterday trying to find out what has happened to the paperwork the solicitor had of ours and why was I never informed about this neither was my mother. We tried everyone we could think of and have now been advised to see another solicitor to re do things like power of attorney and some other things my mother had done !  talk about fun and games! So we are doing that next week and Pippa and I have also got a really important appointment with the cardiologist  also next week which is a bit nerve wracking.


 

Good morning , Muddles I hope you sell your prize there must be someone who could make use of it.

The flooring people should be here soon , I will be glad when it is finished, we go through the kitchen to go into the front garden and the back garden so we are stuck in the lounge , at least we have the spare bedrooms and their bathrooms to use .  

It is already very warm here it is supposed to be getting very hot tomorrow we have had a heat warning !   I have got Freddie's school uniform here ready for me to sew  name tags into everything , he looked so sweet when he tried it on the other day.


 

starry wrote:

 
Quite by accident we discovered that a solicitor my mother and I used about 20 years ago was struck of about 10 years ago , Paul and I spent most of yesterday trying to find out what has happened to the paperwork the solicitor had of ours and why was I never informed about this neither was my mother. We tried everyone we could think of and have now been advised to see another solicitor to re do things like power of attorney and some other things my mother had done !  talk about fun and games! So we are doing that next week 
 

The same thing happened to me Starry. When my Gran died I was the only person she left everything to and I was also the Executor.  However, my mum and Gran both died around the same week, mum was in Cornwall with me and Gran was in Kent. I'd not seen my gran for about 6 months before her death as I was caring for my mum who had cancer, apart from when I was notified she was in hospital after suffering a really bad stoke, so I had to dash up there but she died the day after I arrived, although I did see her, she was in a sort of coma so I hoped she knew I was there. 

I had to go to her solicitor who she'd had for donkeys years since I was a child, if not before to let him know as he had a copy of her will, and it turns out my father's cousin, Mabel, had befriended my Gran during that 6 months I couldnt get up to see her and got another solicitor to change her will leaving everything to her (Mabel).  I told him I wanted to contest it but he said it was highly unlikely I'd win the case as my Gran was dead and I'd have to prove she was not of sound mind, so I didn't take it further. I went around to empty Gran's flat and it was empty and the warden came along and asked who I was, she was a new warden as the previous one and retired. I told her I was my Grans only granddaughter from Cornwall and she said no I wasn't as the granddaughter had been and emptied the flat and had been visiting my gran every day for the last 5 months. I told her that was not her granddaughter. So I went back to my Grans old solicitor and he made a few enquiries and the solicitor that had got my gran to sign a new will told him she was capable mentally of making decisions and there was nothing underhand going on. 

However, 4yrs later my Godmother came to Cornwall to see me and told me that 'new' solicitor had been struck off for several offences involving falsifying documents and things like getting old people to change their wills in favour of a different relative for assumed cash payment. But I didn't take it any further as the money would all have been spent by then and I was going through a very violent divorce from my ex psychopath husband. I should have though as my gran had about £250,000 in her big bank account as she called it and another £10,000 or more in the little bank account.  It still riles me to know that solicitor changed my life for the worse and fiddled me out of my inheritance but there was nothing I could do and circumstances in my private life at the time prevented me from being strong enough mentally to go after him. He's dead now. 

Well today is another really hot sunny one. I've got the AC on as it's so hot indoors. The repair man is coming today from the insurance to fit 2 new bulbs in my little chest freezer, the alarm and the power bulbs dont work. I dont think they ever did so rang Candy up to find out how much to get an engineer out as its something I couldnt do myself and they said about £180 with the call out fee. So instead of that I took out insurance with D&G for £4.50 a month, I've had the insurance now 3 months so put in a claim. So the repair has only cost me £13.50 the cost of 3 months insurance lol I'll cancel the policy in another month now. 

Then later this morning I have the surveyor coming from Sanctuary between 11.30 and 1pm to have a look where the porch is going. Well he's coming because I did ask permission for a conservatory but seeing as that would cost me thousands and thousands its now going to be a wooden porch. So I didn't cancel the appointment I'll just explain when he gets here. I'm hoping he'll give me the go ahead as the last guy that came out to estimate the cost from St Austell gave me a good price for a fully insulated porch with DG door and window.  I've also decided to put the money to it that the cowboy refunded me plus some of my savings, or get a loan for all of it over 3yrs and keep all the other money in my savings account. I'll probably go for the latter as my car is paid for in 6 months so I'll only have to watch pennies until then and it won't leave me really hard up before then. 

If I die within the term of the loan I won't care cos I'll be dead but hopefully I'll be able to enjoy the new porch for a good few years yet lol 
 

What a shock Starry, but as you say thats the thing with old properties. One job starts and it inevitably reveals something else doesn't it. I hope you can get it fixed as reasonably as possible. Things are so expensive these days. 

Well the surveyor has been and said there's no problem with the proposed porch and it won't need foundations as it's basically a timber framed lean to and the only weight will be the dg door and window. So that was good, the builder has to send him the diagram with measurements and materials etc then he said he'll put the approval stamp on them and pass them to the housing association legal team who say yes or no, but said there's no reason why they should dismiss the application. He said he's away next week on holiday but will deal with it asap he gets back the following week and chase it up but he probably won't hear back from the legal team til the end of August. So I've phoned the builder to pass on the request and he's coming out to see me next week and we will book a preliminary slot for the beginning of September for work to start.  Things take so long pffft.

Just waiting on the freezer guy to turn up and put my new bulbs in the freezer. pffft.

Good morning everyone.

Its a lovely day here.

Some washing to do before I go out to Crafternoon.