Resigned

When we first moved into this house, we were told by someone we came across that they had been in consultation with the owner, that they were going to buy the house and that we would only have the six month lease here.
The real estate agents that handled the rental seemed to know nothing about it, there was no paperwork, and we heard nothing more about it. It still felt hard to settle in and make ourselves at home, but at some point we decided to enjoy whatever time we had, however things turned out.
The six months is coming up, but we were told earlier this week that we could sign a new lease – great celebrations! – and we thought we’d take a chance and ask for one year rather than a further six months.

Got a phone call today.
Seems the owner is giving the house to the other people. It appears to have been a shock to the agents – they’re not open on Saturdays, but they got the notification today and rang us straight away.
We’ll find out Monday what the details are.

I think we don’t really know how to feel right now.
I don’t want to move back into some sort of colourless box, where there’s no room to move.

Colour (and space for books…) is important!

I really, really, don’t want to pack everything up again.
Eventually, we’ll be able to look ahead to the thought of finding somewhere better, somewhere more settled. Later, sometime…

I love this place. I don’t want to say goodbye. We’ll have two months from Monday to sort everything out (that’s past the end date of the lease, but they have to give two months notice to leave), and it feels like too much of a rush. Strangely, I also feel like working on some of the things I was putting off until we knew we were secure here – to use this time well in the spaces left.
Anyone know of any 4+ bedroom ramblers around? We don’t mind quirky layouts and architecture (although we don’t want decrepit!) – it’s the space we’d like. A reasonable rent would be good as well 🙂

Next week we’ll draw another breath, survey the situation, and look for where the light is coming from.