After scrimping around, arguing with the bank and cobbling together our joint life savings in the last week, and hocking ourselves up to the eyeballs in debt to place a cash bid on a dream house

(albeit in a graveyard)

we had an anxious wait - only to find out that we were outbid by out-towners at the last minute.
Damn that Sarah Beany - she has a lot to answer for.

I'm so fed up, I may just crack and break out the gin whilst pouring through the home & auction pages