So sorry it’s been a few weeks since I have put anything up, but it’s been a really stressful time!

In June this year, I /we were served with a Section 21, no fault eviction notice from my Landlord. For those who have never had one of these, you are normally given 2 months to move out of the property you have been renting. For me, this is/was the second one in within a year…….not that I have done anything wrong! I have just been unlucky that I have had 2 Landlords who wish to take back the house as they want to sell it. I was sort of looking anyway as I knew my two son’s would be moving out by the end of the year as it was, this just speeded up that search. So, as I have our 2 lovely dog’s living with me, it had to be affordable, I needed to have a garden & parking and of cause, they were fine with having pets.

I had to be out by 14th August, that came and went. There’s just nothing out there!

I do & did feel sorry for Sam, my Landlord. The house I have been renting was his late father’s, he lives in Korea, he and his wife have been blessed with a baby a few months ago, but he is also being kicked out by HIS Landlord over there! Quite rightly, he and his wife want to put down some ‘roots’ and have a stable home…….hence, I have to get out!

I have been onto the local housing association trying to find somewhere, but it’s been bit of a ‘ mess and muddle’! They thought I had several weeks when I had 2 weeks, I had another eviction notice, this time from the county court! BUT, they had the wrong address slightly and I didn’t get the letter for a week, which only left me with 1 week left to get out! I did send a letter myself pointing this out, but it didn’t make any difference. There have been so, so many phone calls back and forth, different agency’s trying to sort it out, trying to help.

My problem is that I am just 1 person looking for somewhere to live. Because I’m not pregnant, have small children, gay, disabled, come from an ethnic minority and ……..I really hate to say it, but I’m not a refugee. I do have a lot of sympathy for them, not their fault.

The stress has been making me ill, I now have Vertigo brought on by stress, close to tears most of the time. I’m waking up at 2.30/3am trying to work out what I’m going to do. Will I have anywhere to go?, will I be living out of my car?, do I still have the tents my son’s had when they used to go camping with the scouts? What am I going to do with all my stuff? Will I have to put it into storage…..but can’t afford it?! What about this?, what if that?

BUT, I am trying to remain positive! I’m buggered if I’m going to let it beat me! (sorry if that word offends)

So, last Friday 11th Oct, had a hand delivered letter as the court didn’t know were I lived! I did point out that he had managed to find me even though the address was still wrong! Hay, hoo! I had to be in the county court at 3.30pm on Monday 14th in front of a judge about my eviction!

Long and short of it is, regardless of the address being slightly wrong, it still stood, he amended the address, I have 4 weeks to get out (which takes it up to the 12th November)…….and I have to pay the court costs! £456!……I can pay it £10 per month. Great, now I have even less money!

But today, I have heard that I have been offered a place in a near by town, a 2 bedroom flat, No parking, No garden, I will have to pay more as I am ‘under occupying the property’…….but I can take the dog’s. I have been lucky I know that they have found somewhere for me, now I have to find a home for some of my stuff or sell the bit’s I had wanted to keep.

I’m not an ungrateful cow really. I hate living in a town, the dog’s have never walked or been into a busy town. The nearest they have got to it is our local small town with 1 main road and that has been only a short distance. We will over come and come out on top, it’s not forever!

I will write more in the next couple of days, Poor Tamsen, we still have so much work to do for Me, Myself and I and the training next week!