Looking good.

We've been waiting a few days to hear back from our solicitor about the house and today he rang. Neil spoke with him so I was trying to piece together the gist of the converstion from the few comments Neil was making and it was sounding good.

As soon as Neil came off the phone, I could tell from his face - it was good news. Everything seems to be in order, there is just one thing left to sort out and then we can really begin to think about packing our stuff into boxes and moving one more time, but this time will be the last, hopefully, for many years.

It's all very exciting and a little bit scary at the same time. It means we are really going to stay in Spain, we'll have our own little corner of Spain for the dogs to run and play and bark in, we'll have our own home to decorate and do-up as we want, something I have missed by being in a rental property for the last 15 months. We'll have our own fruit trees and vegetable patch. But that's probably for next year.

Initially we'll have to finish the house!