Dry.

The piano went yesterday evening but not without a few hair raising moments.  Tim, the guy having the piano, came down in a van and trailer with some strong friends. Unfortunately the chap driving the van had some difficulty reversing around the bend and felt that his van did not have enough power to get up our gravel track and around the bend with a piano on board. After much manly discussion Tim went next door and asked Paul if he wouldn't mind pulling the trailer up with his tractor. The next tense moment was, after wheeling the piano out via the conservatory, lifting the piano up onto the trailer. I couldn't bear to watch and had to go inside for a moment. From there it all went smoothly helped by proper wood battens being screwed in to stop the piano from sliding around. 

Today was bright and fairly sunny so I got some washing out on the line. Unfortunately there wasn't much in the way of a breeze to actually dry the washing.  I did sit outside and finish stitching a new sole on to the second slipper before going back in to wrap more pictures and fill another box.

I'm beginning to understand why selling your house is so stressful. We had a long document from our buyers' solicitors with 46 questions to answer. They're from a much less rural area so perhaps they're unused to old/new farmhouses. Even our solicitor said that it was an excessive amount of questions. Many of the questions refer to things we have no idea about ie certificates from work done five years before we moved in. We don't want to be taken to court over something we didn't really know but we also don't want to start making more problems, the old part is several hundred years old so it isn't going to be like a new built place. That's what they had the survey for and also why the price is what it is.