Its been a long while since I blogged. Accommodation Update.

I'm still currently living in my property, but with the threat of eviction hovering over my family. Today we call the landlord to see if she is willing to sell the property but with me, Barry and Paul and of course Noah the cat still in residence. This would mean we would be able to stay in the property, until we get a new landlord and with the possibility of us still living through another new tenancy here. We have been here for 10 years, but estate agents do not want to know because we are a family currently on benefits.

We meet the rental criteria and we have a long track record of paying our rent every month but landlords out there only want to know if you are working. I am trying to go self employed because employment and mental health is a difficult match. However I need to settle into new accommodation first before I can start up being self employed.

Council housing list is long and tiring and the properties offered are tower block type or they are in bad areas where crime and possibilities of wonder bow out due to urban poverty. I worry that we will end up in emergency accommodation and we wont have a choice where we live from now on. We have until February 2025 to try and find a new residence or our current landlady lets us stay and she sells up with us still in situe. I believe in a God of miracles, a God who parted the Red sea to make a way for His people and I believe that if I am patient enough and listen to God, He will make a way for us.

He is after all a Waymaker.

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