No, we haven’t stopped looking for a house. There just hasn’t been anything to look at.
Two weeks were lost to Valborg. All real estate agents sensibly assumed that, since the 1st of May fell on a Thursday, most people would take Friday off and be out of town for the entire 4-day weekend. Therefore no point in having viewings that Sunday. And of course if people are away, they’re unlikely to be bidding on a house, so there were no viewings the weekend before Valborg, either.
This week there was one house for sale in the area we’re interested in. It is built on such a slope that the garden would be unsuitable for anything except sledding or cheese rolling, and you’d need a safety barrier at the bottom of the slope because there’s a road there. We didn’t go to the viewing.
However some promising houses have popped up for next week so there will be more action soon again.
Cheese rolling is underestimated. As I see it, however, the main problem with a sloping garden is that it’s not suitable for egg rolling. As horizontal gardens are unsuitable for cheese rolling, this means you can only exercise one of the major food rolling sports in an average garden. Sometimes life just sucks, doesn’t it. :-(