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I've bought a house in Holland Park, I can't go wrong can I?

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  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    Blimey, Pasturesnew, I thought you had bought it reading the thread title!

    :D
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Might get a rush of hot suitors, trying to gold dig with me :)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Sir_Humphrey wrote: »
    Blimey, Pasturesnew, I thought you had bought it reading the thread title!

    :D

    I wondered too! Then I thought about it and decided it was unlikely (-:

    £11 million reposession - ooops.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Couldn't have happened to a nicer chap! And look at the photo - he looks more like 58 than 38 to me:

    A city financier has become the latest victim of the housing slump after the £11m house he bought as a property speculator was seized in what is thought to be Britain’s biggest-ever house repossession.
    Robert Bonnier, 38, a former investment banker who was once fined for share manipulation, bought the six-bedroom house in Holland Park, west London, last year.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    He's a prize c0ck. Public humiliation is now his prize.

    I bet he put a lot of noses out of joint as he sneered at others when he bought it. Smugly telling those who were forced to listen just how much he was worth/had paid/was going to make.
  • leyla-aurelia
    leyla-aurelia Posts: 193 Forumite
    Wow pasturesnew I thought you'd won the lottery too looking at the thread title!
  • Trollfever
    Trollfever Posts: 2,051 Forumite
    Don't worry PN if you miss out as I will buy you this one:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-6585082.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Trollfever wrote: »
    Don't worry PN if you miss out as I will buy you this one:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-6585082.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy
    That's just scarey. Is there a small 1-bed bit over a small garage in the grounds instead?

    You can only be in one room at a time... so it's a waste having more than one.

    :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I do like the Holland Park house, and I love Holland Park, but...Windlesham is just a wee bit too much for my taste.

    isn't it terrifying the amount of money one doesn't have? :(
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Hi PN. This is a bit embarassing but can you ignore the PM I sent you a while back. I read the thread title, PM'd you immediately, and then having read the whole thing realise I am probably too young to be settling down and having your babies.

    Whoops.
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