The real estate market is still ticking along, with two nearby properties, 19 Braidwood Street and 1398 Kings Highway, having received offers. Out of a sense of duty to my prospective widow, I am still trying to sell "Riverbend", even though it's been a long time since the last inquiry.
The property has become too large to maintain for the two of us, and it would be even more impossible to maintain for Padma alone, should it turn out that I am in compliance with current life expectancy tables.
Not that I have any idea at all of where we would move, should a buyer suddenly turn up. I sold my lovely beachside property just north of Townsville decades ago, and whatever I had my eyes on in or around Kuranda or Yungaburra or Herberton has since been sold anyway.
In any event, the next property would have to comply in its lay-out with very strict guidelines if I want to bring along all the books I accumulated during the more than thirty years that I have lived here at "Riverbend".
"Riverbend" is very much an outdoor place which looks at its best in summertime. With summer still more than three months away, I can't expect any inquiries other than the last one which read, "We have seen your beautiful property. We are animal lovers, love the water and peace and quite [sic]", and signed topdognsw@xxx.com. I emailed "topdogsnsw" our top-price of $3.5million and heard nothing more.
"Riverbend" will be Still for Sale by Home Owner come summertime.
