Strange planetary configurations.

Okay, there must indeed be a strange planetary configuration at the moment, or at least one which affects my life if nobody else's. It's always this way with me - life bumbles along in a series of logjamming arse-scratching wait-a-thons while absolutely no progress is made on any front at all. Then suddenly, deaths, births, and a whole pile of generally meaningful life events happen bang bang bang one after the other in the space of a fortnight.

And so it has been this last couple of weeks. Permanent residency (after being on tenterhooks since last November), Pregnancy (kind of ditto), followed by Purchase of Dream House!

Yes, despite my morose depression at our lack of house buying luck to date - we've been looking around for months - suddenly it has all happened. Saw dream house on Tuesday morning at 8.30am. Offer made, Tues night. Negotiating back and forward, Weds lunchtime. Signed and sealed, by Weds evening. How mad is that? Rest of week was a manic round of builder's reports, deposit cheques and form filling. In the meantime our Glasgow tenants have also given notice, so we have to get that flat on the market as soon as we can.

There will now be a hiatus until we move at the end of February, to allow our psyches to catch up with this insanity. I am feeling sick as a dog, but have no idea whether it's due to pregnancy or adrenaline overload.