Wow, I logged in for the first time in 3 years. I’m still working for the same company, but we moved to Scotland due to my allergies. Since we moved up 2 years ago, I have been so much healthier. My asthma is more controlled and I haven’t been hospitalised since 2017.

The world seems a bit crazy right now. We have been in and out of lockdown in Scotland since March. Gareth and I started saving money to purchase a flat earlier in 2020, but lockdown happened and we were stuck in the flat for 6 months. In July we decided to hold off on buying a flat because my mental health was terrible after not going outside for months on end. Living in the 4th floor tenement flat with no access to a garden was not great during lockdown. After loads of discussion, we decided to hold off until October.

But things change and I was very depressed in August even with lockdown lifting so we decided to start looking for a property to purchase. But we didn’t find anything we liked in the area we wanted to move to. After searching for a few weeks, we decided to expand our search criteria.

On 22nd August, we were booked for seven inspections for different properties. We had pushed to see one extra house at noon because we didn’t want to drive out again. After we viewed the first two places, we were quite disappointed with the homes we did see, but we pushed on and viewed the home at noon. Within five minutes, we knew this was the house we wanted.

After viewing the home, we immediately contacted our Solicitor and cancelled all other viewings.

Now, it’s 2021 and we have been living in our new home for over two months.