I'm also 63.

In 2011 I decided to put my name down on the social housing waiting list....thinking I'd be waiting 20 years of course, but nothing ventured nothing gained. This type of housing is like rocking horse do do's in York.

In February this year I was shocked to be offered an OAP type council bungalow on the edge of a pleasant estate in a village in North Yorkshire.

Not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth ...here I am.

I've just finished carpeting the whole place out.

I feel very very lucky.