Once again, just at the point when I should be exchanging contracts on my house, the sale has fallen through.  I've lost count now, of how many times this has occurred, but it's many.

There had been months of letters back and forth between the solicitors, many niggly questions, insistence on ever more thorough inspections, all of which now begins to seem like a mere delaying tactic - presumably in order for the buyer to raise the required deposit.  Which he has failed to do.  What's more, in the process, his mortgage offer has expired, and he now seems to be unable to get a new one for anywhere near the asking price.  Quite what's changed in his circumstances that now prevents him from getting a mortgage, nobody seems to have been able to get out of him.

So, back on the market it goes.  Anybody want a recently-renovated three-bedroom semi-detached house in Harold Hill, with a 100 foot long garden and friendly neighbours?