Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

sss555s

Wheezy wrote: »

This is my pasty eating view.

I've no pasties but this is my desktop view...





:beer:

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Holiday lets is an idea, but it's worth speaking to the holiday letting agencies in the area to find out how feasible that is. The holiday let I'll be living adjoined to from next week rents out for very little time.... 8-10 weeks/year tops. Everybody says you can do this stuff, but you need to find out the actual figures. Speak to agents about what people want.

Also - the most popular holiday lets are those that allow dogs.... the one I will be next to allows dogs and still only gets 8-10 weeks/year.

The garden room would be perfect for moving her stuff into while she's away - if you're going to be home/away then you need to have easy access to storage of your stuff.... so it's not a pain in the butt when you're moving it in/out. Although, of course, a secure garden structure can easily be bought for those purposes anywhere.

I notice also that the plan would be to spend summer here - those tend to be the peak letting months. Again - check it with agents. It might be that there's nobody that would want to rent a place of that size, in that location, in the months it'd be available.

Yes, all done obviously, only a pretty place would work as a holiday let in this area, as that is the charm with no sea! People usually want shorter stays in winter we are told, weekends. So i would have to time animal feed buying on one of the change over days, and just 'waste' petrol on the other one.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

All (but 1) of your pasty eating views are at the top of hills. Is that because pasty eating makes you fat, so you then roll down the hill?

Its because if you are lazily driving to a pasty eating view you might aswell go somewhere you would not choose to walk.


We live near a very big hill with lots of foot paths up it. Dh keeps saying he is going to walk dog dog up it.......but by the time we have got in the car to go there, he decides to stay in the car and come to the top of the hill in the car with me and big dog.;)

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Its because if you are lazily driving to a pasty eating view you might aswell go somewhere you would not choose to walk.


We live near a very big hill with lots of foot paths up it. Dh keeps saying he is going to walk dog dog up it.......but by the time we have got in the car to go there, he decides to stay in the car and come to the top of the hill in the car with me and big dog.;)

The view I posted was from a place where I used to drive to, park, and walk Avatar-dog. I carried on going for walks there after he died. Pastures, you're right, I didn't actually eat any pasties up there.

Since I moved, I mostly walk on another hill that has a view across to the one where that picture was taken, because I live at the bottom of it and can walk up it without having to get in the car. I don't go as often now I haven't got a dog to make me go, though. I was going to take lir and fir up it when they visited recently, but it was pouring with rain, so we didn't go.

LydiaJ

lir, this is for you. We had it on a calendar years and years ago, but it was one of my favourites, and I often think of it when reading your latest posts about your home and your animals.

http://www.punchcartoons.com/popup_image.php?pID=3959&image=0

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

I've no pasties but this is my desktop view...





:beer:

Why have you got a photo of me on your desktop????

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, all done obviously, only a pretty place would work as a holiday let in this area, as that is the charm with no sea! People usually want shorter stays in winter we are told, weekends. So i would have to time animal feed buying on one of the change over days, and just 'waste' petrol on the other one.

But how do you time the calls...... I've been watching how things go from close proximity for the past 3 years and I've seen:
- Call because they locked themselves out
- Call because they've arrived and can't get the door open
- Call because there's a smell of gas
- Call because the loo's blocked
- Call from neighbour *grins* as things were getting out of hand
- Another call for the gas smell
- And the gas again
- Loo's blocked again, get the rodding man round
- Replace things the holidaymakers broke, before the next lot come
I think the gas man cometh .... about 6x a year

Then there are the all time jobs:
- Put the bins out
- Get the lawn mown
- Get fences etc fixed that the holidaymakers broke

Although, to be fair, the holiday let I've watched has attracted 'families'. Families aren't nice families having a lovely holiday, they tended to be two couples with 3-4 kids and 2 dogs...... and some drugs....

Holiday letting periods don't coincide with bin days - and you can't really have the second lot having to live with the bins of the previous lot.

Also, the holiday let I was watching had to provide a special "empty beer bottles bin" because the people were getting through so many bottles!!! In fact, watching a lot unpack, beer seemed to be half their luggage.

PasturesNew

My sib has a private beach... sounds idyllic, until you realise ... it's f***kin expedition involving a trek through the woodland down a hill. And when you get alllll the way down there, all you can think of is the bl00dy trek back up

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

But how do you time the calls...... I've been watching how things go from close proximity for the past 3 years and I've seen:
- Call because they locked themselves out
- Call because they've arrived and can't get the door open
- Call because there's a smell of gas
- Call because the loo's blocked
- Call from neighbour *grins* as things were getting out of hand
- Another call for the gas smell
- And the gas again
- Loo's blocked again, get the rodding man round
- Replace things the holidaymakers broke, before the next lot come
I think the gas man cometh .... about 6x a year

Then there are the all time jobs:
- Put the bins out
- Get the lawn mown
- Get fences etc fixed that the holidaymakers broke

Although, to be fair, the holiday let I've watched has attracted 'families'. Families aren't nice families having a lovely holiday, they tended to be two couples with 3-4 kids and 2 dogs...... and some drugs....

Holiday letting periods don't coincide with bin days - and you can't really have the second lot having to live with the bins of the previous lot.

Also, the holiday let I was watching had to provide a special "empty beer bottles bin" because the people were getting through so many bottles!!! In fact, watching a lot unpack, beer seemed to be half their luggage.

I think i have to accept calls will come, and deal with them. Or get parent to get an agent and sacrifice some money. Bin days might not be such a problem, can take rubbish to tip myself although presume this is commercial waste?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I think i have to accept calls will come, and deal with them. Or get parent to get an agent and sacrifice some money. Bin days might not be such a problem, can take rubbish to tip myself although presume this is commercial waste?

Well - you would think so - but most don't bother and just put the bins out on the same day as everybody else.... and the binmen don't know if a place is a holiday let. It's a loophole the councils haven't spotted. Even those that have huge "B&B" signs slapped along the front and signs swinging over where the bins are... put their bins out on bin day.

It just seems to be big hotels, with staff, that actually pay for rubbish removal round these parts.