I've always loved watching those programs where they buy a house at auction and then do it up really nicely and rent/sell it. I wish I had someone like you to tend my house in Wales rather than me having to be the absent landlord - but that's the way it worked out for me.

Great job!
And it looks like England is being... well... England! Which part are you in? I spent a number of years in Southampton and then in Wiltshire.