evicted during a pandemic

So, the timing is never great to be evicted from your home, but during a global pandemic, piss take! Yep, it's happening and it feels like some crazy nightmare my partner and me are going to wake up from and it's just a case of we had the same dream and there's nothing to worry about. So, we moved over 2, nearly 3 years ago now to Cumbria, just for the sake of saying here, this isn't a plea for loads of sympathy here, I'm more letting it all out via blogging, because I'm currently feeling like this is what is going to finally drive me potty, and send me over the edge, twice now I've thought, well if I just went, would it matter, but that would just leave my partner with the burden and cause more problems for him so those feelings are no good (are they ever!?) we moved from an industrial town and wanted to go and live out in the sticks as my partner has health conditions so the fresh air is much better for him that the pollution levels where we lived before, I'd lived there for 37 years, got used to it, but have noticed I'm not wheezing as much!

We have no family or friends here, we know no one, but it was peaceful and zero stress... For a while. We moved at Christmas, not the best time but we found the place, loved it and moved immediately. We had a lovely Christmas, really quiet, but started to notice it might not be as good as we 1st seen, Rose tinted speccys?! We live in an annexe, and it's attached to a cottage, now before it starts to sound like I'm hooning, I know there's people worse off but as I say I'm just getting it all out rather than bottling it in, basically, the lady who lives in the cottage above us is a noisy fucker! Part of her cottage is above our living room and another room we use as a study area, that's where her bathroom is we've figured, one day, the celing started leaking, we've contacted the lady in the cottage several times, she just says about she forgot to put a towel down so I'm imagining a big gaping hole in her bathroom floor? I think that's where her shower is, to add to that, my partner's telly was there and his music equipment, we frantically moved it all out the way as you can imagine electrical goods and water do not mix (no shit sherlock) and glad we did now because the landlord has ignored all our efforts to get him to repair it, looks like the wood is rotting there and got a bucket under where the water drips, not ideal. My partner got one of those uv torches, for some process he does with 3D Printing or resin or something like that, anyway, one day I'm sitting there knitting, and in the next room I hear him Gipping like he's going to be sick, and shouting yuk dirty cow, so I run in wondering what the heck is going on, imaging there's a turd coming through the ceiling, (imagine that, a dirty big bog otter bleugh) no, it wasn't, but it might as well of been, he'd been messing around with the torch, and it was shining on the ceiling, you know when you turn off the lights with a uv torch and you can see wee wee on the seat it shows up as bright green? Well, there was bright green blotches on the ceiling showing up with the torch, dirty cow in the cottage peeing in the shower, thinking about all this isn't it kinda bitter sweet we are being evicted! Just to add, is it normal to hoover every single day, crikey, its noisy and it sounds like sometimes she's going to come falling through the ceiling, has to be heard to be believed! 

Just for the sake of saying, we are on time with our rent, that bit of the story I'm coming to be patient lol yeah so I started imagining her in the cottage going 'oh what a feelin, when I'm pissin on the ceiling' because got to make some sort of humour out of it! Well, we tried to make the landlord aware of that whole ceiling thing but I guess that's his problem now once we are gone lol, oh another thing about cottage lady, it's like she's got concrete slippers on or something, as she's walking above us, the lamp shades in each room shake, one time it was like she was jumping around up there, so much so, it was like a bowling ball a really loud thud, and the lamp shade came loose, its still hanging a bit squiff now, and she's only a dainty looking woman, now I'm not a vindictive person but because of the eviction news, I did summit pretty evil yesterday, we heard (and seen drip drip drip from the ceiling, hopefully it's not urine) her having a shower, oof she's a door slammer too, so I rushed to every tap I could and run the hot and cold shower, revenge muahahaha! Bitch. 

So, what  else, there's nice bits, the view of Scotland and the coast out the back window, the views of Skiddaw mountain out the front, the cute cow neighbours, we live on a dairy farm, I don't  care about the tractor notices the moos of the cows, its great to see a thriving working farm, my dad was a farmer and I love and appreciate everything rural, and they work damn hard, so there, it's not all doom and gloom, and those are the bits I share to my social media, but here's all the truth bits, the bits that Suck old smokers testicles! 

Oh there's a bit of the ceiling that leaks too but that's to be expected with an old farm house, that I can handle. Cooties I can handle lol. 

The bit I cannot handle is the landlord just letting himself in the front and back door, some of the farm electrics  are on a wall by our stairs, we put the keys in the door so he can't just let himself in, what if I'm in the shower, or asleep or anything like that and he just walks in, also isn't that illegal as well?! Anyway, my partner is a lot better at being upfront with people and told him straight not to do it, and ring the bell and we'll be there, I don't know about anyone else, but this pandemic crap has made the sleep schedule go all over the place, we go to bed about 4-5 am, and up at 2-3pm, it's a hard cycle to get out of, I'm on some pretty brutal meds which knock me out too, but I'm there if the door goes, but there's no way in hell anyone should just be letting themselves in and out, plus we have 2 senior indoor cars who could just dart out the door too, but I'm sure landlord doesn't give a crap about that, there was a warning bell for what was going to happen, you know when all the pieces of the puzzle add up! 

I'll go back to the beginning again regarding that, when we went to view it, partner drove over 4 hours there and back for us to view it, so you can imagine us having to move all our stuff too, we fell in love with it, massive kitchen, really pretty and the views, and cheaper rent, we thought how has this not been snapped up, the agency said the landlord was after someone quick, we didn't know about the cottage above and her concrete shoes, did mean to have a look what shoes she was wearing to make it sound like she was thudding so hard when walking, was imaging platforms with massive heavy heels on, last time I looked she had flip flops on! Anyhow, only a few months we were there, had planned allsorts of stuff and excited to get to know everyone, and to be maybe able to sell our crafting items in the village, denied due to lock downs and pandemic, oh f**k. 

So we've not really been anywhere or done much, but much nicer surroundings than last town we lived, so that's a bonus, we were both classed as vulnerable with health stuff so got those Boris boxes with the rotten fruit in and bullet baked beans, cheers Boris you absolute bollock

Anyway, let's cut to the chase, I remember a few days ago, there was a few celebrities who passed away, one being Slipknot drummer, I'm not a fan of them , but he was young, my partner was shocked to hear one of the band members of zz top has passed away too, I head him on his pc in the next room, and he went 'ooh noo how sad, Netty have you heard about this!' no I hadn't, fail. 

Then, I think about 3 days ago, partners at his pc, I hear 'NOOOOOOO'! ' So I shout through' are you OK? ' thinking it must be some celeb who's died again, but more like one of his relatives had by the sound of how upset and shocked he sounded, you remember when there was a whole bunch of amazing ones that seemed to all die in succession there was Bowie, Alan Rickman, all amazing ones total shock, I thought it was happening again, no, partner came in clutching his phone looking very worried, handed me his phone, and email saying we were being given notice of the property and they want it back, more info soon

Erm nice one not. 

So, we went around to the farm house next door, the landlords 2 sons work at the farm, it's a little village, just a street basically and the landlord lives at the bottom of it, hope that gives you a picture of it, and we started to worry what the hell was going on, was it a mistake? We wanted answers. One of the sons answered the door, my partner was asking him what was going on, every question was met with a very rude and abrupt YUP. what had we done, had we done something bad, we were racking our brains trying to think what we'd done, the son put his mum on speaker phone, so we heard everything, she was very abrupt too, and shouted 'well just tell them we want the property back!' my partner said something like 'fair enough we get the message, you are kicking us out bye!' and we went back 'home' 

So at this point we are wondering are we being given days, weeks, months what! It had gone 5pm when we got the email so no one would of been in any offices to get answers and would of clocked off, charming eh! 

To say the least it put a dampner on everything to do with living here, it was tainted and we have started to hate it, we spent the whole night cuddling each other worrying, little to no sleep wondering what we  did wrong and stressing, so much so I hadn't eaten for 3 days now, I threw up and also my partner has some illness kicking off, he has to have a blood test and scans, doctor rekons gallstones being the cause. So next day, I went to send a parcel to a lovely lady with some stuff I'd made, that was a nice bit of the day, then we went to the letting agents, to say the least she was shocked, she had not heard this had happened, so we then wondered if it was actually a mistake, we showed her the email that had come from head office, she was so helpful and Is currently finding properties for us, which is amazingly helpful, and said she'd give the landlord a ring to find out exactly what was going on, as she said we always paid our rent and were good tenants, which was fab to hear. 

We got 'home' gave the cats a big fuss, As they are part of our little family and involved in this shit too, the landlord called a few hours later. 

Get onto this... 

He explained that it was only ever going to be a short time we were there, we had said to him about we wanted somewhere longterm right from the beginning, to settle somewhere and grow old together and be left alone, it was like he didn't give a shit and that had gone through one ear and out the other, he told us how one of his workers had been down on his luck and needed a place, so.... You are evicting two trustworthy tenants and their 2 cats do they can be Down on their luck instead, BASTARD!!! 

He as so damn blazé about it too, like not giving a crap, and even said he'll give us a good reference for the next place we go, what?!?!?!?! I hope the next Tennant completely f*cks him over! 

So there's what's happened and during a global pandemic, we've got legal help and got 4 months to find somewhere new, no one up here to help with the move that we know, so guess I'll start packing, trying like mad to sell stuff so less to pack and we need cash for deposits and van and all the crap that goes with moving, basically, we are f*cked, fingers crossed we find somewhere soon, if he turned round tomorrow and said actually you can stay, we wouldn't, we would use that as extra time to find somewhere if we hadnt found a place within that 4 months, it's hard not to kick off as we want to keep a good reputation. Hopefully he sticks to his word and does give us a good reference, there's a few cottages and barn conversions within the farm with  people in so I guess it was a case of last in first out, it was basically disgusting that he was pissed off head office had sent us that email, he said he didn't want that to happen has he was going to tell us himself, erm when, I reckon had we not got it, he wouldn't of told us for ages, tit! 

Well, there we are, evicted during a pandemic, what an absolute fail, fingers crossed we find somewhere ASAP and sell a load of my stuff, lol yeah right LOL!!!