Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

fc123

dopester wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93Z1v5dypE

Here is a gif image I just made using same method as in his tutorial. I already had the images in a folder because the Wilsons are part of a FBI style "shooting-gallery" cardboard enemy map/game I created.... where the Wilsons randomly quickly pop-up/disappear at the windows of a cul-de-sac full of FTB style houses.. mixed in with some cardboard cut-out images of young smiling would-be FTB-type couples whom you've got be careful not to accidentally shoot.

Love it.....:rotfl:are you going to post up a sample of it when The Wilsons are finally crunched? Make a nice ending to that long Wilsons thread that is lurking somewhere.

dopester

For all Liz Jones shirking personal responsibility, blaming others for her financial troubles, and telling everyone how skint she is - she is still freely spending away.

I had to google what a Vi-mattress was (I thought it was "Vested Interest"). They can be very expensive. My own Slumberland mattress I thought was expensive even though we got a deal on it (new but slightly imperfect), but Vi-mattresses like Liz said she bought... one TV property presenter recently said they spent £18,000 on their VI-mattress.

That said.. I do champion businesses which can find a niche and build total quality luxury products, with service to match, at very high margin. Perhaps not Vi-matresses, but even in a total depression, even if turnover sales fall 90% and you have to reduce your price a bit, a niche luxury business owner can do still do well for themselves with a £4K-£8K margin on a luxury product, to the high-end/very rich who still have £$millions and still want to buy the best.

Anyway "skint" Liz Jones still has the money.

Most of all, though, what I really want to moan about this week is the people who organise home delivery. I have spent £5,000 on a Falcon cooking range, £180 to have it installed, and they have just called to say: 'Phone us on the Friday before delivery and we will give you an AM or PM delivery slot.'

'No!' I shouted. 'It doesn't work like that. My time is very expensive and important.

'You call me on Friday, and you give me a one-hour window. Don't your vans have satnav? This is not, despite what you may believe, the 1950s.'

Honestly, I wonder how I manage to make it through each day.

By Liz Jones
Last updated at 9:40 AM on 05th November 2009

dopester

Lir.. your posts/info/ about farming/farms are very interesting.

I don't have much knowledge about that area so can't add to discussion about it, but I do enjoy and soak up the info in your posts about it.

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

Lir.. your posts/info/ about farming/farms are very interesting.

I don't have much knowledge about that area so can't add to discussion about it, but I do enjoy and soak up the info in your posts about it.

Thank you. (what on earth are you doing up? I wish I wasn't!)

Ironically, on the back of that compliment, today, for the first time, I'm seriously considering not returning to ''rural enterprise''.

dopester

Dentist appointment at 9:30am for a filling. I always have difficulty sleeping the night before a dentist appointment and better try get some sleep now really. Although my upper wisdom teeth were removed quickly and without any pain whatsoever a few weeks ago. It's not just fear of being in the dentist chair though.. the thought of having to pay £90 afterwards keeps me awake too.

Has something new come into your calculations to give you reasons for hesitation about returning to "rural enterprise"?

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

Dentist appointment at 9:30am for a filling. I always have difficulty sleeping the night before a dentist appointment and better try get some sleep now really. Although my upper wisdom teeth were removed quickly and without any pain whatsoever a few weeks ago. It's not just fear of being in the dentist chair though.. the thought of having to pay £90 afterwards keeps me awake too.

Has something new come into your calculations to give you reasons for hesitation about returning to "rural enterprise"?

poor you. go to bed sleep well.....:kisses3:

No, not the maths....well, sort of the maths, but that hasn't changed. Consider though I need DH's income to make the maths work :rolleyes:. No, its nothing to panic other coutry workers.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

poor you. go to bed sleep well.....:kisses3:

No, not the maths....well, sort of the maths, but that hasn't changed. Consider though I need DH's income to make the maths work :rolleyes:. No, its nothing to panic other coutry workers.

Shouldn't you be asleep?

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Shouldn't you be asleep?

yes, but left it so long not really any point now. I tried for a bit, but I'm wide awake.

purch

Was her farm really that much?- she always talks about it as if it's derelict and falling around down her ears.

Here is the original ad for the farm - though if you open it up there's nothing there. Its the 5 bed house Dulverton - £1.6m - maybe she did knock them down.

As for as I am aware, she paid very close to he asking price. At the time it wasn't overly expensive, IMHO.

Perhaps the local yokels will offer her some helpful tips ? One of them may even be able to give her the address of the local homeless hostel, and another offer to eat some of her animals. Country folk can be very helpful.

We are helpful,............but we don't like being referred to as yokels.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Thank you. (what on earth are you doing up? I wish I wasn't!)

Ironically, on the back of that compliment, today, for the first time, I'm seriously considering not returning to ''rural enterprise''.

I am shocked. £18K for a mattress? A Vested Interest mattress? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am feeling a new book deal coming on. Poor woman has been crunched trying to save animals (including rats) and, so, has a new story to sell.

What's with the change of plan LIR? Are the sums too hit and miss?
We have similar issues. Do we return to indie retailing now rents have dropped? I am not so not sure. My head says 'no way' but my heart misses the freedom.