Getting money back from cowboy builders

MrsMoo2U

Isn't Nick Knowles always a bit forward?

And Mike, dont all good authors have researchers working for them? I have never researched the history of a house but if I lived closer I would love to give it a go. I find old houses fascinating. Did you see that programme recently with Caroline Quentin where they were doing up historic buildings? I have to say though it was a bit of a rip off of George's show on channel 4 and his was much more user friendly (alright.....BBC was too upmarket for little old me).

lisawaters

Butti wrote: »

Isn't he too busy dressing as a Country Gent and talking about dog poo?

B x

Curiously, it appears on first glance that their grandparents owned the place at the same time. Maybe they were separated and don't know where each other is?

I feel an episode of Cilla's Surprise Surprise! in the offing. Or Noel's Christmas Morning Weepfest. Or leave it a bit, then ask Heir Hunters or whatever it's called.

Definitely something on Radio 4.

lisawaters

MrsMoo2U wrote: »

Isn't Nick Knowles always a bit forward?

And Mike, dont all good authors have researchers working for them? I have never researched the history of a house but if I lived closer I would love to give it a go. I find old houses fascinating. Did you see that programme recently with Caroline Quentin where they were doing up historic buildings? I have to say though it was a bit of a rip off of George's show on channel 4 and his was much more user friendly (alright.....BBC was too upmarket for little old me).

George is good, if a little emotional. Renovation Man or something? Where he drew on the walls?

Caroline Quentin didn't convince me she'd ever even met a builder.

On the other hand...



or, at a pinch,



Phwoar, basically.

MatyMoo

You can have Kirsty, I much prefer George As you say, phwoar :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

tellmeitsfriday

...Clooney?

lisawaters

That picture of Sarah Beeny's weird... they follow you around the room. Amazing eyes.

Meanwhile, this just in... the lady who wrote IS the bloke who wrote's sister. Hands up who guessed that?



Right. Just me that didn't then.

miggy

Me neither. It doesn't seem as if they're talking, if neither knew the other had written. I sense a chapter all of their own: 'The Reunion'... that's if thy wish to be reunited?

lisawaters

miggy wrote: »

Me neither. It doesn't seem as if they're talking, if neither knew the other had written. I sense a chapter all of their own: 'The Reunion'... that's if thy wish to be reunited?

Yeah! It could be the denouement to this whole saga! Imagine that..!



You're good at this, young Miggy...

miggy

I was wondering about an ending in which our hero is forced into a spot of skulduggery as he tries to keep the factions apart... but of course they may be reading, in which case I beg their pardons and would like to let it be known that Mike has no control over my ramblings.

lisawaters

Indeed, I have not.

Another update...

They are siblings but didn't know the other had written to me. The lady wrote to tell me her grandparents bought the cottage to accommodate their servants who looked after their children while they were away in India. They disliked it because there was no central heating. It had also been a fisherman's cottage soon after it was built, and a rope handrail on the stairs which was there when I moved in dated from that time. Like almost 200 years earlier. The stairs were divided from the living room by a wall, and accessed via a tiny hallway. How the hell they got themselves - let alone furniture - up the stairs is a mystery.

One of the lady's daughters visited the house a couple of years ago and asked the builders "working" on it if she could have a look round. That would be our old friend PB or one of his accomplices I suppose...