Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

mostlycheerful

woof woof

Happy New Year Pastures.

Is your arm ok?

Yes, maybe you could transcribe my rantings and get them published. Thanks for the encouragement. Is that just a throw away comment or is it something that you might actually like to do? If you're serious about it then I'll have a think and some time in the next few days can I pm you and take it from there?

morag1202

Happy New Year to all the Nice People :beer:

Am I the only one wondering how much Boris paid for the last 9 minutes?:eek:

Lakelady_2

Popping in to wish you all a happy new year. Hubby and I raised our cups of tea in a toast to 2011! Hope it treats us all well.

PasturesNew

mostlycheerful wrote: »

woof woof

Happy New Year Pastures.

Is your arm ok?

Yes, maybe you could transcribe my rantings and get them published. Thanks for the encouragement. Is that just a throw away comment or is it something that you might actually like to do? If you're serious about it then I'll have a think and some time in the next few days can I pm you and take it from there?

Happy New Year sunshine.

Well, it's stopped hurting now. I think I'll live!

It was throwaway I have no contacts. It'd be interesting though, you always make me smile. I'm sure there's a niche ... maybe some kind of spoof Agony Aunt column book....

PasturesNew

morag1202 wrote: »

Happy New Year to all the Nice People :beer:

Am I the only one wondering how much Boris paid for the last 9 minutes?:eek:

I think he'll manage to put it onto expenses, along with a new suit, pre-display dinner with friends and a stretch limo

LydiaJ

Happy New Year to all the nice people from me.
And to those who think they were sad to be spending it doing nothing very exciting...
I let ds and dd stay up thinking it would be exciting for them - they both find it quite easy to stay up late anyway, and there's nothing to get up early for tomorrow. It didn't work out well.
Ds was in floods of tears at the idea of having to say goodbye to 2010. This is partly because he's so hypersensitive to loss, and partly because any reminder of the passing of time reminds him that he is inevitably gradually forgetting Daddy, and that makes him feel scared and guilty.
Then dd was in floods of tears because although she was fine about the New Year, she's hypersensitive to being left out, and couldn't cope with the fact that ds needed to be alone with me for a while to talk about his feelings about Daddy.
Sigh. It's just part of the bereavement journey. They'll get there.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cabs aren't in my culture. They're an alien thing I've chosen to use just 3-4 times in my life. Probably been in 12 ever. They're so expensive. I always drive everywhere if I can.

My brother is a taxi driver who has (as of one week), gone completely out on his own....so far, it is going well.

I got a cab home tonight (my brother's cab) as I have had a drink or 8 (or is it 9, could be more, I just kept refilling the glass with champagne) tonight. Went to my parents with 2 of the boys to celebrate New year and we certainly drank and I am certainly merry.

Today went a little pear shaped, shortly after my post this morning, we discovered someone had tried to break into one of our sheds....actually eldest did when he went to do something on his bicycle. Well, eldest stepped back and stepped straight onto a rusty nail, so we spent the afternoon up at accident and emergency getting his injury cleaned out, dressed and him having a tetanus injection...everything taking longer because of his EDS and heart murmur and them having to check the risk and if they had to do anything special because of those conditions.

But the day ended well.....not sure what the morning is going to be like though!

GDB2222

Happy new year to everyone. (Just been woken up by one of our children coming in at 3.30 in the morning. Got to love em grrr.)

dopester

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know the place. I also know who manages a lot of those flats. It's not in a good spot. Great views, but there are better. Noisy road behind it too. It's alongside two/three very derelict sites and overlooks a public car park (you can see this over the edge of her balcony). That's St Michael's Church to her right.

Last one sold lost £100k http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=horizons+tr7+2az+12&n=100

And here's the Google Streetview http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=TR7+2AZ&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.624893,31.860352&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newquay+TR7,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.410952,-5.086219&spn=0.005593,0.015557&z=16&layer=c&cbll=50.411235,-5.084702&panoid=PMG_FSrkaKy8OBsK56le0w&cbp=12,295.3,,0,-3.81

Interesting data links. There has to be a good chance that number 12 belonged to Mavis. The timeline fits in, and suspect Daily Mail massaged the purchase price up to £300K from £242,000.

Daily Mail (February 2008)

Divorced Mavis spent £300,000 on a two-bed apartment in the block of flats in Newquay, Cornwall, six months ago.

The Guardian, June 2009.

Developers are taking desperate measures to shift property. One example is at Horizons, a block of 30 flats. Trathen Properties, the developer, has been trying to sell these since 2007, but attracted only one owner-occupier, who has now moved out. Trathen then tried to sell the flats under fractional ownership, with five weeks' annual use of each flat for £34,950, but no one bought. Now the firm is trying to let the flats to holidaymakers on a weekly basis.

From that it sounds like these don't have 2nd home / holiday home owners at all. Just haven't sold. Even if it has drawbacks (noisy road and surrounding derelict buildings) it'd still be ok if you could rent something like that cheap. It doesn't have to be totally perfect does it? Problem being can't yet rent these cheap. Too many people trying to pretend the old world exists for property values, and mechanisms in place to limit them from realising the reality of the situation.

lostinrates

Happy New Year everybody.

I'm snarling if anyone asks what my resolutions are....just getting through each day feels achievement some times!

I went to bed as my nerves all started hurting and couldn't think (which is ok) but had some trouble seeing...which is less useful. DH and I and the two domestic cats spent NYE in a warm bed after a scented bath (the cats didn't bathe). Which is pretty nice way to spend any evening,and I do like to go into the new year clean!


I've got an invite this morning afer which we thought we might try poundland for the fantastic sounding plants on greenfingered...particularly the mock orange blossom, which is one of my favs, we have one but there is always room for more plants like that! Then come home and clean the field...