Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Pippilongstocking

Slinks in with a cuppa - wish you goodluck for later..................

Double_Trouble

:j to new job

:j:j to viewing on potential new house

:j:j:j to paying off Northern Rock

:j:j:j:j because I felt like it

DTxx

Pippajo

:wave: Hi KC!

I'll lurk no longer!!!!

One of my jobs was on your potential list - an NVQ assessor - I cover Business and Admin, Customer Services, Team Leading, Management and Retail Financial Services (Insurance, mortgages and banking) and also Key Skills. It is a difficult industry due to lots of changes and funding forever swapping between available and not - just when you've agreed to do it, they tell you you can't! Luckily, I'm S/E but connected to only one training provider so they sort all that side of it.

Good luck with todays list.

Pip

turfy6

Hiya, all sounds good with you at the mo. Great to be able to clear loan, Im v jealous, one day it WILL be me paying something off totally.
Hope the second viewing is good for you sounds like you really like this house. Great news on the job too, enjoy your weekend.:beer:

taxi73

How was the house?
Well done on the new job.

Karmacat

Morning! And welcome, Pippajo! How interesting that you're an *actual* NVQ assessor! As a job, it looks fascinating - but like I said last weekend to Z, for me there'd be the training and then the need to buy a car to get round to assessment sites, thats an awful lot of money to pay out when I'm already not breaking even.

DT - love the increasing jumping stars! You sound happy, I'm glad for you.

Taxi, Turfy, Fay - :hello::hello::hello:

Karmacat

Decided to split my post into two, it got a bit ridiculous

Ooh, the new job is getting real now - same place (in front of my laptop ) but different everything else.

The viewing was really up and down. I *still* love the house - the walk to the shops is only just over ten minutes, which is fantastic, and there's local shops too. The walk to the station isn't nearly as bad as I thought it was - the ex-council place you have to walk through looks grubby because the railings between the pavement and the street (there's a fairly steep grassy drop) are rusting, plus those wirelink fences don't look great, big deal.

One issue, which I really can't decide if its massive or not - its a semi, obviously, and in the house that shares the party wall, there are two alsatians. Alsatians have big barks! OTOH, I've been in that house for 50 minutes altogether now, and they barked twice - not two separate occasions, but once (in the garden, fair enough) they went "bark bark". And that was it. The householder said they don't even bark when someone comes to the door if anyone who lives in the house is in (though when I walked past on a factfinding tour earlier, one of them stood on the windowsill and barked at me like crazy - but then, I *was* loitering with intent ).

Votes please - what do people think? My sister has offered to drive me round there next Saturday (she can't do today, she's sprained her ankle, poor thing) in the evening, and sit there for a while, while we case the joint.

I love the house, but I'm not prepared to be miserable there! My inclination right now is to hold fire on an offer, no matter how much I like the house (and the area - the householder pointed out that Lindfield is in very easy walking distance - v famous, v picturesque village, showcase rural England, all true). If my new job pans out well next week, then everything will be different.

Anyway, I'm going to print out the details, and swoop down onto my sister for the day - I don't want her sitting at the computer looking at this stuff when she should be having her foot elevated, and there's no laptop, just a PC.

Off to check out diaries and do printing and stuff. No idea what happened yesterday on here, I'm missing my fix!

Double_Trouble

Tricky one KC they don't bark when someone is in but you will be home most of the day will they be out all day?

It would put me off to be honest but only you can decide on the balance whether you like the house enough to risk it obviously when you buy a semi there is always a risk that noisy neighbours will move in at some point but to move in and know there is already a possible noise problem is a different situation probably why I have always bought a detached house so that we don't have to worry about how noisy we are!

DTxx

Pippajo

That is a hard one with dogs - ours never barked at all for years, but he found his "voice" about a year ago and now barks at anything, luckily he isn't too loud.

You definately need a car to be an assessor, I go all over, and quite a few are nowhere near bus/train routes. Plus you are often carrying around big bags of folders.

I must have missed the new job - if you don't mind me asking - what are you trying?

hypno06

Have you accepted a formal offer on your current house yet?