well... crossing the fingers didn't work...
One cock-up after another today
In a nutshell - the completion didn't happen as planned by noon (do they ever ?) and I had to leave Durham at 12.30 at the latest to get to Holyhead for the 17:30 ferry crossing. Despite several phone calls to the solicitors, nothing. Trusting the new buyer (doh) I left him a key and popped mine through the letterbox as I left.
Mobile phonecalls to the solicitor at every other layby down the A19, A1, various service stations on the M1 and M62 "Nothing yet"
Got to Holyhead at 17:00 and handed over my printed reservation slip to be told I had £110 to pay on my ticket !!
"No - there must be a mistake. I paid in full over the phone when I booked 2 one-way tickets - one for my husband last night and one for me today"
Looking under Steve's details, both payments had been credited to his ticket (??) and I was allowed on.
Keep phoning the solicitors until the mobile signal disappears and they have all gone home - no completion. Nagging voice in the back of my head "You shouldn't have left the keys"
7pm - we're in Dublin. I heroically try and navigate from memory - end up going onto a toll-road that I shouldn't be on and do a scary U-turn... end up missing a turn-off and end up on the M50.
For readers not familiar with the car-park that is the M50 - think M25.... twice !!!
After a brief detour down the N4 and another U-turn we head off down the N7 heading for Clare. It's dark, pissing down with rain, we're tired and hungry. Not the idyllic start we'd envisaged, but hey.
22:30 we arrive at our friends' in Bodyke - drink tea and then wine and fall asleep in our clothes.
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