Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Wheezy_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

I am also feeling better today, so went out and did some gardening... 45 minutes of weeding and I was so cold I had to go in. And start a new gardening blog.

Read your blog...very brave of you to be weeding with this weather
We'll be starting shortly also. Before winter, I converted part of the tiled bit of the back garden into beds, got some decent top soil in and we plan to put a dozen or so tomato plants, some gherkins, and a couple jalapeno peppers.
We did tomatoes in pots last year but that wasn't really a succes. Lots of black rot

This year they will go in full soil, hopefully with better result.

PasturesNew

Moooooving. OK, something's not quite 'right' but it's affordable, clean and available. So I've said yes and will be in by the weekend. It's got no address *grins*.... I am wondering if there's council tax payable .... and TV license. No EPC of course, nor gas certificate. It's all very "way things were done in the 70s". It's very much turn up, do you like it, agree a date, little hand written rent book and you're in. No AST, no minimum period, notice is "as much as you can give" but nothing formal.

It's great

tomterm8

Wheezy wrote: »

We did tomatoes in pots last year but that wasn't really a success. Lots of black rot

This year they will go in full soil, hopefully with better result.

Looks a lot like blight to me, have you gone round the local allotment and asked them if you are in a blight area? Because if you are, you need to (a) grow early varieties of tomato (b) grow them in growbags or containers and (c) pray that it isn't a wet year, because when there is one blight plant in an area, and wet weather, everything gets blight. And if you grow them in the soil, blight can live for 7 years in the soil. My experience is blight resistant = still gets blight.

We got blight on our potatoes a few years back, so just can't grow them in the ground... it's the spores, they rest eternal.

... the blog isn't really worth reading yet, I am trying to build it up, but it will take months before it is really ok ish. It is my online project for this year, I think.

PasturesNew... congratulations... is there enough space for you to do your hobby / new business?

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

... the blog isn't really worth reading yet, I am trying to build it up, but it will take months before it is really ok ish. It is my online project for this year, I think.

PasturesNew... congratulations... is there enough space for you to do your hobby / new business?

I'll read it

I bought my domain name, but now realise that that domain name for business can't all link up the way non it and non paranoic people would like, because it would be counter anonymity...so business website linking to a blog would mean blog would have to be bland. Not sure how naked mud wrestling chickens sits with a collected and sensible business image.More '' My life and other practical perfection'' rather than ''fifty ways to get covered in mud on your own propertywhile embarrassing yourself in front of your neighbours'' For me dividing me, how I am writing from me and how I need to present myself for the other stuff is proving quite hard. I used to juggle different things, perhaps I have grown into myself anymore and don't really want the bother!

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Moooooving. OK, something's not quite 'right' but it's affordable, clean and available. So I've said yes and will be in by the weekend. It's got no address *grins*.... I am wondering if there's council tax payable .... and TV license. No EPC of course, nor gas certificate. It's all very "way things were done in the 70s". It's very much turn up, do you like it, agree a date, little hand written rent book and you're in. No AST, no minimum period, notice is "as much as you can give" but nothing formal.

It's great

Sounds interesting:)

Studio in the back of someone's garden?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Moooooving. OK, something's not quite 'right' but it's affordable, clean and available. So I've said yes and will be in by the weekend. It's got no address *grins*.... I am wondering if there's council tax payable .... and TV license. No EPC of course, nor gas certificate. It's all very "way things were done in the 70s". It's very much turn up, do you like it, agree a date, little hand written rent book and you're in. No AST, no minimum period, notice is "as much as you can give" but nothing formal.

It's great

Excellent! The lease is mostly for the LL's benefit anyway. Do get a carbon monoxide monitor - I saw one around for £8-something. Probably on HUKD.

Edit: £8.99 but money well-spent IMHO especially if there's no gas certificate.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/fireangel-6-year-carbon-monoxide-alarm-8-99-tesco-store/887449

fc123

A quicky...good luck Mrs Kool and PN with your move. It was NDG who knew all about immigration as she was an immi barrister.

I'll ask someone tomo ..if useful, I'll PM you.


............. I am nearly keeping up all the news..just. :cool:

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Excellent! The lease is mostly for the LL's benefit anyway. Do get a carbon monoxide monitor - I saw one around for £8-something. Probably on HUKD.

Edit: £8.99 but money well-spent IMHO especially if there's no gas certificate.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/fireangel-6-year-carbon-monoxide-alarm-8-99-tesco-store/887449

I'll pop into Tesco tomorrow.

It's propane, do they work with propane?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

For me dividing me, how I am writing from me and how I need to present myself for the other stuff is proving quite hard. I used to juggle different things, perhaps I have grown into myself anymore and don't really want the bother!

I have these issues all the time. Everything I do/everywhere I go, I want to keep separate.

It's a nuisance.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Sounds interesting:)

Studio in the back of someone's garden?

That'd be 5-star luxury compared to what I've gone for. Studios/annexes in people's gardens seem to have some kind of snobbery premium for some reason, which is odd as they're tricky to shift as most people don't like living near their landlord (an EA told me when I asked to view an annexe once and enquired why it hadn't gone yet.... although the awful truth of it turned out to be that the annexe had clearly been an office at some point, with scratchy carpet tiles and that square/aluminium-framed suspended ceiling stuff)....

You can tow it ... and it's up a farm track
Probably pitch dark outside at night too, knee deep in mud and horse poo ... and surrounded by a wood. But the rent's as cheap as a 3-bed council house, so cheap as chips, so I can afford it.