Anyway thinking that made me realise I am feeling very waspish again. It is partly that I am very tired, partly that I have a cold and partly anxiety about how I am coping especially when it looks like the contract that I have had languishing around my room will need to be signed. Just at a point when I do not know if I want to sign it anymore.
Also I have had some bad news on the flat front. Two things really. One the flat downstairs may have been sold, to people I know, so that is possibly good news. But I am supposed to do something. The sellers solicitors wrote to me ages ago but I did not understand the contents so asked for clarification - nothing received. And last night at 3.40 am I got an urgent text from the buyers asking me to act. Meanwhile although I can rarely get hold of my son he tells me each time that Mr Urso keeps ringing him to try and get things moving. There is a great irony in this as this is the Mr Urso who when I was desperately trying to resolve things in the flat I had bought from him (none of the meters were correctly assigned to my flat and it took me about a year and a half and lots of cost to resolve things) refused to help me at all and this is the Mr Urso who refused to fulfill his contract obligations and empty the flat before I moved in This of course may explain why he does not want to ring me to get things resolved. But of course that is not moving things on. And if it is the same solicitors that he is using well they were simply dreadful. I felt mine were incompetent; his were bullying. They almost brought down the sale, now I wish that it had,because despite me knowing I have a good and genuine case against WH Brown the Property Ombudsman system has upheld the right of Estate Agents to lie to make a sale. And having all this business come up has just brought everything I was trying to get away from back to my door.
One of the problems with being a waspish woman is that I usually find that as soon as I slag someone off they do something nice or I do something more stupid (W H Brown though seem to have bucked that trend) so when I went into breakfast I started feeling very guilty for doubting these luminaries of the state. I am glad to say that the two I recognised and with whom I have spoken before both shut the door to the dinning room, but out of 10 people they were the only 2 to do so, so having tried to be more generous, whilst munching away, the temporary residents disappointed.
However, there is a lot locally to praise. This is a very young country (in its current form) and the fact that week in week out people come and meet here to try and improve their country is a testament to how much people want to make this a great country. There are also lots of people here who work incredibly hard. I attach pictures of three of them. The woman, (I am ashamed to say I do not know her name) has a variety of jobs, bell ringer to say when class has finished and cleaner and plant waterer (plants are a major passion here how many countries can you say have a lemon tree in their schools and churches). She is always busy and always looking for bits of pieces to do, so today I asked her to help me with making the year o book. The two blokes are amazing, they are presently building the school round us. They never stop and today as we will be having more important visitors they were putting new blackboards up. The development of the building has been most efficient and their hard work and cheerfulness blows me away.
One of the problems with being a waspish woman is that I usually find that as soon as I slag someone off they do something nice or I do something more stupid (W H Brown though seem to have bucked that trend) so when I went into breakfast I started feeling very guilty for doubting these luminaries of the state. I am glad to say that the two I recognised and with whom I have spoken before both shut the door to the dinning room, but out of 10 people they were the only 2 to do so, so having tried to be more generous, whilst munching away, the temporary residents disappointed.
However, there is a lot locally to praise. This is a very young country (in its current form) and the fact that week in week out people come and meet here to try and improve their country is a testament to how much people want to make this a great country. There are also lots of people here who work incredibly hard. I attach pictures of three of them. The woman, (I am ashamed to say I do not know her name) has a variety of jobs, bell ringer to say when class has finished and cleaner and plant waterer (plants are a major passion here how many countries can you say have a lemon tree in their schools and churches). She is always busy and always looking for bits of pieces to do, so today I asked her to help me with making the year o book. The two blokes are amazing, they are presently building the school round us. They never stop and today as we will be having more important visitors they were putting new blackboards up. The development of the building has been most efficient and their hard work and cheerfulness blows me away.
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