After 20 year I closed the doors on my very small advertising production company,
- Offered and accepted job in an small IT company.
- Small IT Company purchased by a Large multi national,
- Made manager, then
- 12 months later, made redundant. (8 weeks salary! )
It was decision time - I needed to have something to do, another job looked difficult as I was past my usebye date, as far as employment consultants and HR departments and I didn't feel like starting another business all over again.
We must have some money as the redundancy payment wasn't going to last long.
My wife had just started her own business and was going through the growing pains of being busy one moment and then thinking the phone and email would never work again.
We decided that the only thing we could do was start again, I would build a new house, I had proved I could be fairly handy in the DIY area and so...
- Sold the house to clear mortgage,
- Moved into rented cottage
- Bought small block of land in close to a village that was within commuting distance of the city.
This is where the DIY really started in ernest, we bought a old house to be relocated to the land we had bought and start some very fast work to bring it to a living standard, and have somewhere to live and call our own.
In New Zealand you can buy old wooden houses for relocation they are usually in bad repair – Ours, was an old 90 year old wooden farm cottage, that had been very badly modernized about 1966 it was a mess.
When we first saw our new home, it was in a contractor's yard sitting up on 44 gallon drums, looking very sad with its roof sagging down, looking like a beached wooden whale, surrounded by other old tired houses waiting to die. (It was love at first sight!)
The cost included delivery to our site on pile foundations
So we paid the man some money to be deliverd to the site in due course.
But first we had to get planning approval - to be continued!!!!
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