The estate agent came around to measure and take photos and write up a description of the house last monday (the 25th of Oct) and he said that we'd have the details to look over and sign by the end of the week, and that the house would be in the paper this week.
I was extremely chuffed and dead excited about it-- couldn't wait to see our house in the pages of the Congleton Chronicle!
I was working at Alsager Library on Friday, and they get a copy of the Cong. paper-- but it hadn't arrived that morning, so they'd had to chase it up. It turned up mid-morning, and as soon as it arrived, they brought it over to me so I could look! I flipped to the middle, opening the page right onto the estate agents page and scanned through the photos. It's easy to read them because they go from lowest price to highest from the top of the page to the bottom. So my eyes went from 70,000s 80,000s and so forth but.... no Helsby house.
hmm.
Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed.
Later on when I phoned the agent (and mind you, the paperwork hadn't turned up either-- so I wasn't feeling altogether happy about talking to him), he defended himself by saying it wasn't close of business yet on this friday and that he'd be putting it through our postbox sometime that afternoon. He also said that in the draft that was prepared for the Chronicle, our house was on there, but for whatever reason, the Chronicle had substituted 2 houses which were spare for 2 houses on the draft (ours and some other poor sods') and therefore, it wasn't on there. But he assured me it would be in this week's paper.
We shall see.
I'm calling October 2004 "the month I lost my faith in what people say they will do". I fell for two nicely wrapped packages, hoping that the inside would be what the outside promises, but alas. I'm naiive.