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Is any house tempting you?
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I think this one's not bad value, but it's triple my budget and further from the office (in SW1!) than I'd like to be
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-18038647.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&mam_disp=true
As a house, it's terrific, but if you look at the aerial view you'll see what's wrong with it. To save people the trouble, there are two problems. First Mill Lane is hardly the idyllic country lane you might be expecting. Second, the front garden has been sold off for housing.
Also, it's by far the most expensive house in the area, which is always a bad plan.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Seen a cracking house in the area we want for 65k (prob get it down to 60k) however needs a lot of work doing to it (new kitchen, bathroom etc), few doors down is listed for 105k but has a dinning room. Hopefully the 65k one will still be there when we have the deposit.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »Speaking as a single person, it's really quite unfair that for £X in any area you can get a tiny rabbit hutch in a dodgy area, yet for only 2x£X you get nice posh places.
Anybody got any spare men lurking about?
I need that essential 2nd income generator really.
Hi PN. My wife is doing a full-time university course at the moment, and really we could do with an extra wife at the moment to deal with things like cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc. We have a king-size bed, so I think we'd all be comfy, and we could take some clothes to the charity shop so there'd be room in the wardrobes for your stuff.
I'm looking forward confidently to a PM from you with more details. For example, do you have any relevant qualifications? Maybe you did sewing GCSE? Oh, and any ability at gardening or DIY would be fantastically useful!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
PS: CORGI registration would be a godsend!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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No PM yet from PasturesNew!?????
I haven't said anything to offend her, have I? We're really quite desperate for an extra wife, so I don't want to put her off at all.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
OK, I suppose if this one dropped to £350k we might angle an offer of £325k!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-22609322.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&mam_disp=true[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.[/FONT]0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »A little while ago, we stayed in a hotel at a last-minute, bargain rate.
The room was extraordinary. Pink wallpaper and bedspread and curtains, lilac carpet and bed linen, and those really fluffy white cushions.
OH took one look, and said, "no hetrosexual man decorated this...."
It'll be a woman then; no gay man would have such rubbish taste.:rolleyes:0 -
I don't do childcare. I don't know one end from the other, nor do I have a desire to find out.Hi PN. My wife is doing a full-time university course at the moment, and really we could do with an extra wife at the moment to deal with things like cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc. We have a king-size bed, so I think we'd all be comfy, and we could take some clothes to the charity shop so there'd be room in the wardrobes for your stuff.
I'm looking forward confidently to a PM from you with more details. For example, do you have any relevant qualifications? Maybe you did sewing GCSE? Oh, and any ability at gardening or DIY would be fantastically useful!
Your stuff for the charity shop is probably better than what I'd bring.
No sewing GCSE. In fact, there were no GCSEs when I was at school, I'm probably old enough to be UR MOM.
No gardening ability. Totally 0 DIY skills.
I am good at doing absolutely nothing, watching daytime TV, eating wine gums and keeping irregular hours.
I was seeking "a catch". But your offer is the wrong sort of catch.0 -
On first reading your reply, I was terribly, terribly disappointed. But then I started to tease out some of the good points:
Perhaps I overdid the childcare aspect. Our youngest is 17, so he doesn't need his nappies changed (and hopefully won't for another 70 years or so). He's a teenager, so he really needs someone to moan to about how terrible his parents are - that sort of thing. I thought, well, if your as good as you say at watching daytime TV, then you could probably put up with the boredom and repetitiveness of his endless whining pretty well.
Also, if you're always eating wine gums, you must have strong teeth, so that's a good point in your favour.
Finally, if you really are old enough to be my mum, you needn't worry. We can find space for your Zimmer frame.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
It's not good to leave me with young men. Once he's 18 there could be trouble!On first reading your reply, I was terribly, terribly disappointed. But then I started to tease out some of the good points:
Perhaps I overdid the childcare aspect. Our youngest is 17, so he doesn't need his nappies changed (and hopefully won't for another 70 years or so). He's a teenager, so he really needs someone to moan to about how terrible his parents are - that sort of thing. I thought, well, if your as good as you say at watching daytime TV, then you could probably put up with the boredom and repetitiveness of his endless whining pretty well.
Those leftAlso, if you're always eating wine gums, you must have strong teeth, so that's a good point in your favour.Finally, if you really are old enough to be my mum, you needn't worry. We can find space for your Zimmer frame.
I forgot to mention. It's a golden rule of mine: don't sleep with married men.
So, when did you say your son is 18?0
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