Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Davesnave

I got unintentionally rat-ar $ ed last night, so I'm feeling rough, but I don't think it did my ratings in the locality any harm at all.:A

I kissed more women in the first hour of 2011 than I did in the whole of 2010, which isn't quite as good as it sounds, but never mind.:)

Gosh!... 1/1/11.......Has Asheron started a thread about that yet?:eek:

misskool

right, festivities done and dusted. I want to go back in 3 days, so can we speed things up please? Only so much time off work I can handle.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd have gone out, except it would have involved lots of explanations, full details of where I was going to, and then full cross-questioning afterwards and being told I'd gone to the wrong place and done the wrong things, so it's easier to just hide away.

Think of it that they have not much going on in their lives so want to take an interest in yours. They enjoy having you living with them so its only natural that they make conversation about what you are doing, otherwise you could think they don't care.

morag1202 wrote: »

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

We were at friends last night and that was our comment, then someone pointed out that being just outside the Greater London boundary, it wouldn't be costing us a penny, so we sat back and enjoyed the display (via BBC1). Then we discussed if we would have enjoyed it more being there and realised that:
a) one of our number dislikes large crowds;
b) although not freezing it looked cold;
c) someone would invariably want the loo, and a clean one at that;
d) the view was far better on TV;
e) alcohol is cheaper at home;
f) how middle aged we all sounded.

Generali

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:

Last year the fireworks in Sydney Harbour cost AU$650,000 (about £400,000). 1,500,000 watched them so the cost was about 25p/head.

Having seen both displays, I would guess that the London fireworks were a fair bit cheaper as London seems to put up a lot less into the sky.

PasturesNew

dopester wrote: »

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.

I got the impression Mavis lives at 22 as it said she'd paid £300k and only ONE sold at that price and it was about the right sort of date too. In which case she's still there.

dopester wrote: »

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.

If you Google the address a lot come up as holiday rentals available for hire. The terms "2nd home", which should mean somewhere you buy for yourself for holidays -and- "holiday lets", which should mean somewhere you buy as an investment and not to use yourself, tend to be muddled. Most were bought as holiday lets rather than 2nd homes.

You couldn't rent one of those cheap. The LHA for a 1-bed flat is £480, one of those is £850 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-17596476.html

Edit: Or another at £760 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-17596836.html

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Last year the fireworks in Sydney Harbour cost AU$650,000 (about £400,000). 1,500,000 watched them so the cost was about 25p/head.

Having seen both displays, I would guess that the London fireworks were a fair bit cheaper as London seems to put up a lot less into the sky.

Morning all! How's the heads?

Last year's cost £315k. I'd say there were a lot more this year so the cost was probably higher, however a big part of the cost is crowd control. The big advantage Sydney has over London - apart from being far more spectacular a location - is that you have a much larger viewing area so the cost per head for the viewers attending is significantly lower. The viewing area in London only takes 250,000 people.

Just one year, I'd love to be in Sydney for theirs. Gen, do you know whether you are allowed to charter a boat for it?

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Think of it that they have not much going on in their lives so want to take an interest in yours. They enjoy having you living with them so its only natural that they make conversation about what you are doing, otherwise you could think they don't care.

It's not that, it's cross-questioning/disapproving and the Spanish Inquisition over every minutae, which you can't understand unless you've experienced the intensity of questioning from somebody on the ASD scale... which one of them is.

vivatifosi

Gen, if you're still around, have you heard the rumours swirling about this morning that 'Arry is trying to sign Becks to Spurs? I know its been around for a few weeks, but all the chatter is about it this morning.

PasturesNew

It's the end of the year and time I should be cracking on with my self-assessment. Finally I'll actually sit down and work out how much I earnt in 09-10. And, I always think "and then I'll look at Apr-Dec of this tax year" but somehow having completed and paid for the tax return I've just done, I just want to surf the net

That's why I've never got much of an idea how much I actually have. November looked good, December didn't. I was doing "very well" in October (by my yardstick), but abysmal in December. So it's hard to say. I think I'm looking at having averaged an annualised £13-14k in the past 18 months, which is quite shabby compared to, say, benefits incomes If I had nothing at all and were simply sitting around on benefits reading Heat magazine I'd actually be better off than that.

In my town, just LHA on a 1-bed flat + JSA + Council Tax paid is equivalent to a job paying £15k. Thing is, in this town, the median full-time job for a female is £16,500 and jobs actually advertised are nowhere near as high as that. It's £13,500-14,000 for an Office Manager or similar, with about 3 jobs at that level appearing per year.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning all! How's the heads?

Last year's cost £315k. I'd say there were a lot more this year so the cost was probably higher, however a big part of the cost is crowd control. The big advantage Sydney has over London - apart from being far more spectacular a location - is that you have a much larger viewing area so the cost per head for the viewers attending is significantly lower. The viewing area in London only takes 250,000 people.

Just one year, I'd love to be in Sydney for theirs. Gen, do you know whether you are allowed to charter a boat for it?

My head is fine! My sister in law's is not.....don't think it was helped by us going up my parent's road at just after midnight with the bottle of champagne talking to all the neighbours and refilling our glasses all the while.

Strange things is that she drinks far more often than I do and yet she is the one really feeling it this morning....and she was also the one who was drunker last night on the same amount of alcohol!

We missed the fireworks...we were too busy taking the champagne on a tour up the road.:rotfl: