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

zagubov

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Mind you Wikipedia thinks that Aristorchus of Samos had named the earth and several of the planets as circling the sun before Christ.

Quite so,and it was part of a history course I studied at uni, but why would the Mail have anything good to say for Greece at the moment?

misskool

I posted a money related to car dilemma on the motoring board if anyone would like to comment (along with the usual on the board). *sigh*

Doozergirl

I can't even tell you how long they've taken to finish this house. Five years?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-21556137.html

I love the lounge with three vents (a surveyor wouldn't notice that at all!) and the clear damp patches on the walls. Real workmanship there. Damp Proof Course anyone :beer:

People are going to love the security of that back garden on a main road. They've built a new wall right across the front as well, restricting the number of cars you can park at the front. You'd buy it and change it if it wasn't overpriced.

You'd never guess it was a period property would you?

michaels

Yes but...count the downlights/spotlights...

DG - possibly you missed my question - I am looking at a semi converting the hip to a gable dormer loft room which I think is PD but then I want to add a 4m single storey rear extension ire more than the 3m PD - does this then bring the dormer into consideration for planning too? Thanks

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can't even tell you how long they've taken to finish this house. Five years?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-21556137.html

I love the lounge with three vents (a surveyor wouldn't notice that at all!) and the clear damp patches on the walls. Real workmanship there. Damp Proof Course anyone :beer:

People are going to love the security of that back garden on a main road. They've built a new wall right across the front as well, restricting the number of cars you can park at the front. You'd buy it and change it if it wasn't overpriced.

You'd never guess it was a period property would you?

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Yes but...count the downlights/spotlights...

DG - possibly you missed my question - I am looking at a semi converting the hip to a gable dormer loft room which I think is PD but then I want to add a 4m single storey rear extension ire more than the 3m PD - does this then bring the dormer into consideration for planning too? Thanks

Oh, oops, I did. I'm popping out, await a drunken reply later or a hungover one in the morning!

chewmylegoff

misskool wrote: »

I posted a money related to car dilemma on the motoring board if anyone would like to comment (along with the usual on the board). *sigh*

not sure if you have the spare cash, but if you do i would scrap the citroen as soon as possible - it is clearly just going to keep falling apart and costing you money.

If you can afford £1,500-£2,000 you could pick up a cheapo 4-5 year old Kia. they have 7 year warranties therefore you should be covered for a lot of the major stuff that might go wrong for a couple of years (although car warranties always have loads of things that aren't covered).

Kia / Honda / Toyota / Mazda - always going to be cheaper to run than a Citroen.

Trying to keep that wreck running has to be the worst option, you're just going to have to keep chucking money after it.

Not that I have much practical experience of being MSE with cars - my car has done 5,000 miles in the last 3 years- the depreciation alone has cost me £2 / mile, and i'm barely getting 30mpg out of it! at least it is now taxed, insured and MOTed...

lostinrates

I've had a Citroen, and it was ok I got rid of it when I had a stalking problem....I wasn't Stalking, an ex was stalking me and the police suggested changing cars, actually, my ex had also started tampering with it when he found it parked in places I think, so it seemed a good idea.


A first car is important, IMO, so be a little rustic....Dh,s driving improved no end in a more basic car. But miss kook, you have that now I guess, and you know it's a bit less breakable.

We live near somewhere there are car auctions, and I thought last year of paying a me Janice to come with me to get a car at one of them. My dad has a friend who knows little about cars but has found it to be a gamble that has paid off for him, always buying at auctions like that.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

not sure if you have the spare cash, but if you do i would scrap the citroen as soon as possible - it is clearly just going to keep falling apart and costing you money.

If you can afford £1,500-£2,000 you could pick up a cheapo 4-5 year old Kia. they have 7 year warranties therefore you should be covered for a lot of the major stuff that might go wrong for a couple of years (although car warranties always have loads of things that aren't covered).

Kia / Honda / Toyota / Mazda - always going to be cheaper to run than a Citroen.

Trying to keep that wreck running has to be the worst option, you're just going to have to keep chucking money after it.

I'd back that up!
Saw a Simca a while back and it occurred to me I hadn't seen one for years (decades more like)
I love French food but not their cars. Japanese every time. Toyota, Nissan. Don't like anything fancy or stylish - just a utilitarian box on wheels that gets me from A to B without any fuss or major expense.
My first micra was like Dr Who's TARDIS - you could get 5 people and tons of luggage in it- it's ferried fireplaces to the waste tip, washing machines to be repaired, Christmas Trees. Narrow enough to squeeze an extra labe out of the road and it's dead nippy.

Was much more economical than my mini. I swear you could get another 50 miles out of an empty tank from the fumes of an oily rag waved over the petrol tank.:D

neverdespairgirl

!!!! and !!!! and lots of other apostrophe-type starred words.

We have a gas leak. So our gas is switched off and clamped, no heating, and our lovely new slate floor will have to be dug up.

<more swearing here>

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

!!!! and !!!! and lots of other apostrophe-type starred words.

We have a gas leak. So our gas is switched off and clamped, no heating, and our lovely new slate floor will have to be dug up.

<more swearing here>

Oh no! Hope it's sorted soon.