Update from Melo (Anita)

[mary&tom 0]

Hello everyone. Anita (Melo) wanted me to send her love to everyone here and tell you that she will be on her way to the USA tomorrow. She has a direct flight from Gatwick to Houston.

She has spent almost three weeks in the UK with family and friends. We were supposed to try to get together but Tom and I had the flu for about a week and I was unable to go into London on the day she was going in. I had hoped to invite her to the house here at some point but didn't want to expose her to our germs when she has such a big journey ahead of her. Anyway, I just got off the phone with her. She will be back online soon. We do plan to meet one day. She will surely return to the UK for a visit.

Big update from us as well... five days after we got married our landlord told us he wants to sell this house. At first we were panicking, wondering what to do but he gave us first chance at buying this house and we have decided to go for it. Applied for a morgage yesterday... we will see what happens. We do like the house and it would be great to not have to uproot once again. There are things we would love to do to it if it were to belong to us. We only moved here (Gravesend) from Brixon in late March and then I had to spend from mid May until the end of August in the USA. I feel like I never want to move ever again. I think Tom hates moving even more than I do. He stayed in that tiny Brixton flat for years after he outgrew it just because he didnt want to bother moving.

I am really suffering from "sticker shock" regarding house prices here. The money from the sale of my house in Michigan is only a down payment on a house here! And that house was morgage free... was paid off several years ago.

Mary

[sarah and hicham 3]

Glad to hear everything is going well.

Good luck with the house!

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Excellent.