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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • michaels
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    Thinking on street lights, we have 16 down-lighters in half our new kitchen - previously that would have been 800w now with LED bulbs it is 50w - there have got to be some big savings still to be made in lighting.
    I think....
  • silvercar
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    michaels wrote: »
    Thinking on street lights, we have 16 down-lighters in half our new kitchen - previously that would have been 800w now with LED bulbs it is 50w - there have got to be some big savings still to be made in lighting.

    Plus the torch!
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  • silvercar
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    This is how surveyors work out the prices, but if there are any end-user buyers around they will bid more as they tend to underestimate the cost of the works. Can you let us know what happens, please?

    Will do.

    If you want to watch live:
    http://www.eigroup.co.uk/onlineauctions/login.aspx?auctionid=15647


    I was referring to lot 12, but there are other properties nearby.
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  • michaels
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    For some reason the link to the property details doesn't seem to work for me - can anyone post a direct link please?
    silvercar wrote: »
    Will do.

    If you want to watch live:
    http://www.eigroup.co.uk/onlineauctions/login.aspx?auctionid=15647


    I was referring to lot 12, but there are other properties nearby.
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I've been looking a my books and a really need an accounan now....I definiely broke even firs year rading and hink I migh have made a small profit ....I'm doing his all elevenh hour and probably more profit to be shown if I had a good accounant.


    afer the ''u'' sicky ness on the compuer my 'T' is now sticky...:) I must really pound the keyboard o cause so much damage :(
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,133 Forumite
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    Surely the better the accountant the less profit?!
    I've been looking a my books and a really need an accountant now....I definitely broke even firs year reading and think I might have made a small profit ....I'm doing his all eleventh hour and probably more profit to be shown if I had a good accountant.


    After the ''u'' stickyness on the computer my 'T' is now sticky...:) I must really pound the keyboard to cause so much damage :(
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    michaels wrote: »
    Surely the better the accountant the less profit?!


    Suppose so.....more money!

    I need to think in terms of future, and possibly borrowing in the future for business expansion and also investment and building for what I already have. If I borrowed for building now I could be trading more than three fold what I am now, and permanantly employing (local job creation. :))
  • GDB2222
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    michaels wrote: »
    For some reason the link to the property details doesn't seem to work for me - can anyone post a direct link please?

    http://www.skbauctions.co.uk/auction-lot-details.php?id=1906080&search=current&page=2
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • SingleSue
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    I remember when we used to go to my paternal grandmother's house in Rye Harbour, she lived down a small lane (lots of pot holes!) and there were no street lamps at all in pretty much the whole village, so mum always packed several torches. It became a way of life down there, go to the pub - take the torch, go to my aunt and uncle's - take a torch. If you didn't take a torch, you generally found yourself with soaking wet feet from one of the pot holes in the lane.....

    Mind you, mum also had to take plenty of changes of clothes...me and my brother used to love playing in the mud in the harbour, within 30 minutes of arriving there, we would turn up back at my nan's house covered head to foot in the stuff.

    Oh and I also remember that is used to take 5 hours to drive there...roads have improved a hell of a lot, it can be done in just less than 2 and a half hours now! Dartford Tunnel on a Friday night was not a good place to be.....
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    afer the ''u'' sicky ness on the compuer my 'T' is now sticky...:) I must really pound the keyboard o cause so much damage :(

    Malfunctioning keys in this house are usually caused by crumbs getting into the keyboard and under the keys. Have you been eating while typing?
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    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
    :)
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