Brightsale

Admittedly and ashamedly, I’ve been quite quiet on the blog post front this month. The reason for this is that the birth of my first child, Lilly, occurred on the 31st August and as those of you that have experienced this life changing event will concur, I have been kind of busy for the past three weeks!

Being in my early thirties, children were appearing everywhere around me. The majority of my friends were having them and nights out were just deteriorating into conversations about nappy contents and first smiles/words/projectile vomits etc etc. I couldn’t understand what was happening, why was no one else interested in the latest vodka flavour, the cocktail shown on ‘Something for the Weekend’, and the latest ‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’ by Audi? Until now, I had no idea.

I think the realisation is simple, times change, people change and priorities change. The friend that always had the Robert Carlyle ‘Begbie’ moment whenever he had too many to drink had suddenly become a calm doting father. The friend who seemed to know lots of men in Epsom when she drank was suddenly settling down with baby and its father. Its strange, but these are people I had never envisaged changing.

Now, I know your waiting for the tenuous estate agency link somewhere, and so as not to disappoint, here it comes. Agency is changing, the ‘New arrivals’ would be the internet, ourselves and some of the other online agencies that are appearing and the old friends changing their ways would be the Spicerhaart’s and Connells of this world, once stuck in their ways but now grasping the web with both hands. One London agent, Chard, even has a blog!

My concern however, is for that friend that never changes, he or she is still sitting in the corner of the local pub that you first drank in, single, lonely and probably living at home with mum. Compare them if you will to the agencies denying that anything is wrong or that technology is beneficial, until one day you walk past and they are boarded up, just like your unfortunate friend.

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