Long wait / Lenticular clouds

With the miniMinx at college in Manchester and Dan attending RNCM on a Saturday*, last September we started looking at houses in Manchester. As is the way with these things, we saw a couple of places that were all right and then one that we absolutely loved.

It was within budget and so I set about organising the mortgage, which proved to be an extraordinary task. Suffice to say that even with a covering letter from an accountant, my experience has been that most lenders won't look at any set of books that reflect the real world ups and downs of running an SME. 

However, thanks to the perseverance of Kevin of Stead Mortgages (would recommend!), we finally - FINALLY - received a mortgage offer today. Of course, by now the house we want is back on the market and we still have several hurdles and hoops to negotiate but we were able to enjoy a cautious celebration this evening, sat down in the potting bar, warmed by the new chimnea.

Early on in our celebrations, four odd looking clouds appeared over the hills on the far side of the valley. They were oddly static and looked like one of those backdrops created for the original series of 'Star Trek': not quite real. A little research by the Minx revealed them to be 'lenticular clouds', which Wikipedia tells me "are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction."

*I am obviously talking about times outwith the Coronavirus era.

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Reading: 'Underland' by Robert Macfarlane