Visit from Dan

Well, I haven't seen my lovely Australian friend Daniel Hayes in nearly 20 years, and I finally got back in touch with through Facebook after nearly 10 years ...
On Friday, he came up to Liverpool to spend a bit of time with me and my lot before he goes home to Perth in Western Australia.  He has been visiting a friend of his in London for the last couple of weeks.
It was really good to catch up with him.  I met him off the train in Lime Street station at lunch-time, and took him on a little tour around Liverpool City Centre to see the Albert Dock amongst other attractions.
When Col got home from work with Bec, we went to Lucky Red for a meal...  Our treat of course.
We had to drop him of at the train station on Saturday before 11:30am.  His train wasn't until 1:50pm, but we had a viewing booked for 12:30pm to see a house in Worsley.

Dreams of new home down pan

We had it all planned out.  We were lending money from Col's dad to pay the deposit.  All we had to do was pass the credit checks.
Our dream home, and it's all gone out the window.
Ok, so we went to see this lovely four bedroom house in Bradley Fold, but now because of Col's credit history we have been turned down.  We went through getting copies of our actual credit reports for the landlord, and he still said no!
Only, now we NEED to move house since Col has started working.  Our only problem right now is that the estate agent says we can't have our £300 refunded to look somewhere else, and neither can they guarantee another landlord would accept us.
Obviously, I am not feeling my normal perky self.