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Good morning all
Some of you may recall way back in August 2015 I posted a thread regarding being forced into full timing; and in the end it wasn't the case!... Then!
Well.... Nearly a year later I find myself writing this thread.
I have now been (mostly) living in the Moho since mid April. It's a definite separation and there are things still to sort out. However, since April I've been through all of the usual emotions and I am finally coming to terms with it all and beginning to smile again.
"We" purchased the Moho - new - 14 month ago and I am loathed to liquidise it an asset and loose circa 26k to allow me to purchase a roof that would have to be at the cheapest end of the market - and most likely in a crappy run down area of town - and I'd just end up being a miserable sod!!..
So I have decided to take it as a "hit" from what equity I might end up with and try and survive as a full-timer - and see what happens. BTW... Now that my head is less emotional... I find that I actually like it.. Living in the Moho.. it that is!
Cathy is insisting that she keeps the house and all contents car etc... And I keep Moho and the remainder of the savings from my recent pension lump sum. Which she believes to be fair!.. A battle still to be had... Although I will say I'm happy about her keeping the house etc... providing she pays me the difference.. (That being the battle).. But that's another story for another day!
"We" where due to go across to France at the end of this month.. But for obvious reasons.. That's not happening.
However, I am toying with the idea of spending the winter over there as some do... Spain / Portugal tho..
The only thing that's bugging me about it all is that I have limited savings and took a low monthly pension for a larger lump sum.. (If only I'd known for sure at that time - March 2015!!).. Anyway another story for another day.
I definitely do not want to have to crawl back into the rat-race as a means to survive these next ten yrs.. (State pension time - if it still exists then!!)..
I'm due to bounce the finance off Ian-the-builder; insofar as he found himself doing something similar - and I too, like Ian, have a building background although wouldn't want to do it "full time" etc.. It's more to point out that I'm very handy and can do most things.
An example would be.... Not too long ago.. I bartered for free food and camping in exchange for some "jobs" that I'd identified needed doing on a site.. And at the time thought ... Mmmm! I could make this work.. Another story...
Anyway.... I'm sat here after a night of "wilding" at one end of Mablethope and starting to waffle on a bit now... So I stop here and make another cuppa...
Regards
John
Some of you may recall way back in August 2015 I posted a thread regarding being forced into full timing; and in the end it wasn't the case!... Then!
Well.... Nearly a year later I find myself writing this thread.
I have now been (mostly) living in the Moho since mid April. It's a definite separation and there are things still to sort out. However, since April I've been through all of the usual emotions and I am finally coming to terms with it all and beginning to smile again.
"We" purchased the Moho - new - 14 month ago and I am loathed to liquidise it an asset and loose circa 26k to allow me to purchase a roof that would have to be at the cheapest end of the market - and most likely in a crappy run down area of town - and I'd just end up being a miserable sod!!..
So I have decided to take it as a "hit" from what equity I might end up with and try and survive as a full-timer - and see what happens. BTW... Now that my head is less emotional... I find that I actually like it.. Living in the Moho.. it that is!
Cathy is insisting that she keeps the house and all contents car etc... And I keep Moho and the remainder of the savings from my recent pension lump sum. Which she believes to be fair!.. A battle still to be had... Although I will say I'm happy about her keeping the house etc... providing she pays me the difference.. (That being the battle).. But that's another story for another day!
"We" where due to go across to France at the end of this month.. But for obvious reasons.. That's not happening.
However, I am toying with the idea of spending the winter over there as some do... Spain / Portugal tho..
The only thing that's bugging me about it all is that I have limited savings and took a low monthly pension for a larger lump sum.. (If only I'd known for sure at that time - March 2015!!).. Anyway another story for another day.
I definitely do not want to have to crawl back into the rat-race as a means to survive these next ten yrs.. (State pension time - if it still exists then!!)..
I'm due to bounce the finance off Ian-the-builder; insofar as he found himself doing something similar - and I too, like Ian, have a building background although wouldn't want to do it "full time" etc.. It's more to point out that I'm very handy and can do most things.
An example would be.... Not too long ago.. I bartered for free food and camping in exchange for some "jobs" that I'd identified needed doing on a site.. And at the time thought ... Mmmm! I could make this work.. Another story...
Anyway.... I'm sat here after a night of "wilding" at one end of Mablethope and starting to waffle on a bit now... So I stop here and make another cuppa...
Regards
John