I’ve had quite a strange day hunting for somewhere to live in Essex. In total I’ve seen four places. Strangely I’m more drawn to the first property that I saw which is a 1970’s semi detached two bedroom house. Walking into it with the estate agent the couple who own it were busily repainting it.

The second property, a recently well refurbished bungalow currently empty, had the complete feel that it was a blank canvas that I could stamp my own mark on if I wished to. Two sheds mind you though.

Looking round the third property, which is lived in at the moment by two Spanish Girls, I had the feeling that I was intruding on their lives catching a brief snatch of who they are and the life they live. However I am very unlikely to be ever able to compare the impression that I have created in my head with the head what who the two girls who live there actually are.