Although I'm not usually a superstitious person, I'm convinced that our last house was jinxed.  From the day we heard that our offer had been accepted until when we moved out it felt like bad things kept happening to us.  In fact, in the two years that we lived there, my brother died, my mam died, someone crashed into both of our cars and totalled them while they were parked outside, our roof leaked, we found mould in the kitchen that the survey hadn't picked up, the gas company refused to install gas so we couldn't get central heating (cue massive heating costs), a giant crack appeared in the … [Read more...]