IT HAS BEEN RAINING FOR SEVERAL WHOLE MINUTES. [panic over it stopped again] [ooh no restarted]

[kaberett]

Also:

• we have a mortgage offer. The bank has finally deigned to consider my income income. Hopefully everything will go much more rapidly and smoothly from here.
  
• the DWP has received the letter that runs "you owe me 7k, and don't even think of trying to wriggle out of it -- you agreed in 2014 that I had difficulty with this thing I can apparently now do with no trouble despite me telling you I still couldn't do it". It'll be a while before the system regurgitates anything useful, but hey, progress.
  
• post-therapy ice-cream was apricot + sour cream, and a mint-and-cucumber sorbet that is my new best friend. The combination was great.
  
• I am getting an extra damn' month of medical leave and my samples are in Milton Keynes, where they need to be and were theoretically going to have been since late May.
  
• I bought some baby salad leaves from the reduced chiller in the supermarket and planted them out; they are much happier with more space and are living next to the tomatoes, such that when we have dinner on the patio we can pick-your-own salad.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[ironed_orchid]

You are doing great and so excited for your mortgage offer.

[cesy]

Hooray for mortgage!

I was impressed by the Ruby Violet mint-and-cucumber thingy, though I went for the lavender in the end because lavender.

[hilarita]

Hooray for the mortgage offer!

[fyreharper]

YAYS!!

[worlds_of_smoke]

yay for all the good things!

[alatefeline]

These are many good things and you did an Accomplish by happening them. Excellent go you.

[sebenikela]

yaaaaay!

and mint and cucumber sorbet sounds like a wonderful thing for a hot day :)

[vass]

EEEEE! re mortgage offer.

Apricot + sour cream sounds wonderful.

[silveradept]

Very glad that you have an offer. The sorbet was the ice treat on top of all the other good things that ate happening.

[lunabee34]

Mint and cucumber sorbet sounds divine.

[sfred]

Hurray for all those things!

[divulge]

Well done on All The Things. Did the bank count your benefits as income or just your stipend? <3

[kaberett]

Benefits are counted as income. :-) You might also qualify for Support for Mortgage Interest, FYI!

[divulge]

Do you have to prove somehow that you’ll keep getting them? My DLA is only till Dec ‘19 and I’ll probably be transferred over to PIP before that anyway.

[kaberett]

Seems to get treated as potential fixed-term contract income i.e. stable til then; they seem to be perfectly happy counting my indefinite ESA Support group award and my PIP-til-early-2022 award for getting a fixed-term five-year mortgage at a favourable rate. So you're prooooooobably good, and if you're not then that's discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristic and I can help you throw the book at them.

We've been using London & Country as a mortgage broker and while they have required A LOT of chasing (like, I think A ended up making 1-2 phonecalls to them a day?) we do now have an offer that takes all of my benefits income into account and it wasn't even the benefits income that got quibbled about, so.