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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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Member number 1,165,275 Englishman adopted by scotland. Truck driver. Love my family Husband, dad, grandad LGBTQ+ ally My Ebay https://ebay.us/m/Ev3scN

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · Apr 21

Finally got round to listing loads of my late dads stuff on Ebay.
Being an antique dealer for a while, he did collect up a massive amount of.... stuff.

Created a bluesky account just to help promote it.
Collectors of anything.. look me up.

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 2h

My wife was just laughing and telling me about the Glasgow Christmas market having the world’s first solar powered observation wheel… solar powered… Glasgow … that’s too funny

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 8h

In post office sending some eBay sales to customers. Couple of kids with their mum in the queue behind me.
After I’d been served, they ran up to the post office clerk, excited about sending their letters to Santa.
Cute.. but isn’t it a bit early? The kids will change their minds 12 times before Xmas

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks mate.
We will have to wait to see how it develops. Hate all the uncertanty of what’s to come

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks. Needed that.

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 14h

Things going that way in the uk as well now. It’s like the UK government thought “how can we keep the population in its place” & looked across the pond.
Just look at my post yesterday about our family current position. My parents worked all their life to get what they had & we get hit with this!

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks, yeah. Not exactly something we were expecting to happen. But it hits hits you like a train!

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 16h

Very much up and down. Trying to stay positive, but it is hard if you are having a down day about it all, and still have to speak with estate agents and stuff.
Really sucks!

Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers bud
Yeah, it’s just all the uncertainty. Hopefully we can get sorted with a council place. Forms have been completed and a meeting with them near the end of the week and hopefully know more then.

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks bud.
Yeah, it isn’t ideal.

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

So there we have it. That’s where we are right now.
An uncertain future.
Our security pulled out from under our feet.
Numb. Angry. Frustrated. Angry.

Hopefully normal family life will resume in the new year.
Thanks for listening.

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

So please, if this sort of situation could happen to you, get things sorted out immediately. Don’t think it can never happen to you. Get advice and do ANYTHING you can to avoid what we are going through.
Do it early before it becomes an issue. Earlier than that if you can.

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

.. signed the house to us at the very beginning, social work could still claim it to be a deprivation of assets to avoid future care costs, and put in a claim for it, going through the courts if they have to. There is very very little we could do to stop this from happening..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

.. to market. Plus the uncertainty of where we will even end up. Going from feeling secure in our own home, to being turfed out with 12 weeks notice.

Over the period of all of this, I had done research to see if there was any way we could have avoided this. But there isn’t. Even if they had..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

.. emotions. Anger, frustration, worry.
So at this point now, we are dealing with estate agents, trying to plan what we do next (we have completed forms with the council regarding being made homeless) while we are soon to start packing while also showing people around the house when it goes..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

So.. fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I woke up on Friday morning to the message along the lines of … mums deteriorated too much and needs to go into a home. Social work have already visited, and told us we need to sell your house to help cover costs.
Boom. I was hit by such a mix of..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

.. weeks, she decided to move back. There was very little we could do to persuade her. So a week or two after that, she was packed up and moved back to Devon, my sister saying to us she will do all she can but work and family life will always get in the way..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

We will keep your place here free for you… just in case.
My mum seemed happy enough for the first few weeks, but I think she started to feel homesick. She missed her 2 friends she saw a lot, and a countryside walk on the doorstep of her home in Devon. Also remembering my sisters words, after 6…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

We thought we had found the solution and our home safe from the grasp of Devon council social services.
We moved mum up, but on the day of the move, as we were leaving with her belongings packed in a van, my sister said to her…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a good size, and with a bit of shuffling, some modifications and internal building work, we could create a small self contained flat for my mum on one side of the downstairs. It consisted of a bedroom/living room, a small kitchenette, and her own downstairs toilet/shower room..

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

The other reason we took this route, is that in the UK, if you have any assets over £14k, they have to be used to pay for the care costs. Our home was still in my mums name. Our home of 13 years would be taken from us and sold to pay for those costs.
We immediately got to work on the house…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

Wife working a shift pattern opposite to my hours, there is always one of us home. So with that in mind and my wife having a lot of experience in care, we decided to move my mum up to Scotland so we could look after her, rather than her going into a home…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

Be ours.
The spanner got thrown into the works a couple of years ago, when my mum started showing signs of dementia/Alzheimer’s and last year she had deteriorated to the point that my sister and her hubby had trouble looking after her, due to their work.
With me only working part time, and my…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

Would sign it over to us. The problem is, just as we paid off the loan, 6 years ago, my dad passed away. My mum dealt with it very badly and we felt it wasn’t the time to get it moved into our name. It was all very sensitive.
So we just trundled along, having faith that the house would one day…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

The house we ended up with needed a lot of work doing to it, and we couldn’t finance it. So they gave us a loan which was enough to get the basics sorted. We put in a basic kitchen, carpets, bit of other work. The house was purchased in their names, and they said, once the loan is paid back, they…

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Ian W🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ian71.bsky.social · 1d

So they made the decision to sell their home, give a big chunk to my sister so she can afford to get a place with a large separate accommodation attached for them to move into. At the same time, they decided to help us out, buying a house up here in Scotland, with the aim for it to be ours..

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