I kept telling myself ‘it will be late by the time the paperwork is done and everything will be dark’ ‘It’s daft to drive up after work to just stand on an empty plot of land just because you bought it’ but I also loaded Merlin into the van with me when I went to Vänersborg to do the final steps to owning Avalon. There was no reason to bring a dog to a legal contract signing. So after hands were shook and papers signed and large numbers moved from my account to someone elses I climbed back into the van, drove up to the land, took a video call from my mobile office space in the back of the van and stepped foot on the property as owner rather than guest or occasional tresspasser.