And Yet More

By Elizabeth Love

This is the third part of the trilogy Forever. It begins with the process of looking for a house to suit the couple in their separate careers in the city of Carlisle. Then there is the buying of the property at auction and the renovation and refurbishment of the Victorian home.
There is the resultant friction between the husband and wife and making up afterwards when all turns out as planned. In the second half, there is the birth of their twin girls who are opposites, their development, individual understanding and eventually the placing of them both in suitable employment. It is a homespun story of love of one kind and another plus a character and temperament story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd
• Release date: Apr 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781780690995

Elizabeth Love

Elizabeth Love has found a niche with her imaginative writing about Cumbria with first, a collection of short stories called 'Time Lapse' and second, 'Kaleidoscope, a poetry profile': a comprehensive book of poems describing creatures in the wild as well as domestic, the countryside around where she lives plus personal reflections. This latest publication, set in the picturesque village of Wetheral a few miles out of Carlisle, will hold the reader's interest with its simplicity, drama and romance.

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AND YET MORE

Elizabeth Love

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Three Score Years and Ten

Forever

And Forever More

Chapter One

Jodie Tullie and Angus MacIntyre were moving house. They met eight years ago when they were students in Edinburgh, since then they had followed their separate professions in embroidery and architecture. Living in Penrith as partners, they had both been able to launch their careers successfully. The little market town of Penrith had been the chosen place for their first home and it had worked out well. Then Jodie secured a teaching post at Carlisle College.

As an architect and property surveyor, Angus had all the necessary qualifications for house hunting and he was immensely looking forward to the job. What they required was a dual purpose property – to serve as comfortable living accommodation and to be somewhere that he could work from, or somewhere within close proximity to suitable office accommodation.

His first goal was to visit the estate agent who dealt with properties for auction and study the list. He would do this quietly on his own without referring to Jodie, who had complete trust in him with regard to knowing what to look for. Later on in the search, she would naturally want to view any prospective house but it would be his choice initially.

They were both artists as well and as anyone gifted in that way can tell you, the creative tendency is very addictive but does require space. It was a factor that needed consideration in the search, but in an elimination programme and with plenty of time to make a right decision, Angus was confident.

They were not in that much of a rush and Jodie could stay with her parents in the meantime. After all, finding the right house to fit the bill immediately was unlikely to happen. The choosing of a dwelling was very important at that stage in their young lives, which was something Angus was astute enough to realise. He had, therefore, to do his level best to discover a house in the city of Carlisle where the districts were unfamiliar to him, and knowing the onus had been placed on him, he wanted to succeed in a hurry but had to curb his impatience because of the possible repercussion and must wait for what he hoped would be a right choice.

He had never been to a property auction, so the obvious thing to do was go to one. They were held in a room next to the main auction hall at Rosehill on the edge of the city. There were six properties in Carlisle and two in the country in the forthcoming sale. He had obtained details of each one and had committed to memory the reserve price of each. It would be interesting to see where each property got started and where each got knocked down or withdrawn with regard to the estimated target price. He looked forward to the experience which was new to him, as their first home in Penrith had been bought directly through the agent who had negotiated with the mortgage company. He had an idea he was not going to be disappointed.

As the auction was billed to start at two o’clock, he had to arrange to be there just minutes before the hour. He stood at the back of the small group of people, he estimated at around thirty, both men and women. Amongst them there would be the owners of the eight properties so that meant there weren’t an awful lot of interested people. To get the bidding underway, the auctioneer started well up towards the reserve price, then came down further in stages until he got a bid. Although there were only eight items, it proved to be quite a lengthy, drawn-out process but Angus was there to see it all through and learn from it. As it turned out, the afternoon was even more interesting than he had anticipated. He knew too well that a nod of the head or a hand raised to a twitching nose or ear could be taken for a bid. That also, even though he was standing at the very back of the room, his presence throughout the whole proceedings could be noticeable as an interested buyer. It had definitely been an exercise of self-discipline and self-control.

Only four of the eight properties reached the reserve figure and two of the four were those in the country. It was understandable that there was more demand for country properties for one reason, there were not many of them put up for auction. In the case of the town houses, there had been absolutely no one interested – in consequence it was declared null and void. On reading the details, Angus had dismissed it right away because it was on a council estate. In his pocket he had the details and picture of the house and after the sale he had a chance to study it more intently. He worked out the reason for the lack of interest was most probably that there was a bus stop almost directly against the garden gate. Such a factor is an undeniable deterrent and like a speed retarder, an obstacle that cannot be altered. Having bought his rented house from the council, the