Whoopie doo

Our "buyer" has had his mortgage application rejected. It's currently being appealed, and when that's rejected too the Halifax's financial advisor will be speaking to him tomorrow evening. It seems he - and his idiot of a financial advisor - failed to take into account an outstanding loan, which anyone who has a mortgage knows is always marked against you when finding out how much you can borrow.

The hot money's on the house being back on the market on Thursday morning. Our purchase will almost certainly collapse, both our sellers and I will be out of pocket to the tune of an additional £1,000 on top of our fees, and all because this joker let his financial advisor sit on his mortgage application for eight weeks before finally having it rejected.

I'm sure it will all work out for the best in the end - right now I feel a sense of relief more than anything else. All the uncertainty has gone - or at least it will have gone in the next 48 hours. A different kind of uncertainty will replace it, but at least it almost certainly won't involve those jokers who've spent the last two and a bit months wasting our time.