Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Ocado sent me an intro offer to Holidaylettings.co.uk = £1 for first 2 months, standard price is allegedly £299+vat pa :eek:

As I am only looking for Olympic lets I will cancel before paying. Apparently my property is also now on tripadviser.com (anyone heard of it?)

It has been up about a week, I have had 1 enquiry, I have done no SEO myself, however I need to rent for at least 2 weeks for it to be worth sorting out the insurance, gas and electric certificate etc. 5 bed 4 bath I am asking 1500pw during the Olympics which sounds cheap to me but then it is a decent trek from the Olympic Village (20 min train plus 5 min tube + ?? walk and queue). What I can't see on the site is any way to track views of the property or find out what search terms people use.

Found yours on tripadvisor. Slide show is gimmicky. No pictures of your lounge(s) or kitchen and your bathroom is called "living room 1" which is a bit offputting.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

On FIR's recommendation I purchased a Waitrose black pudding scotch egg today whilst in town. I didn't think it was much different from a normal one to be honest, although I was severely dehydrated when I ate it being about 2L of fluid down which does make a difference to how things taste so is an excuse to get another one.

I am staggered you could do it that fast!! If I'd wanted to try one it would have meant months of "keeping my eye out", with bunches of "while out specifically look for...." and even after 1-2 years I'd expect to not ever have seen one!!

PasturesNew

My latest "love this" is that Asda do two round naan breads for 67p. Now, my Asda only does the bog standard naans, which is annoying because I know a big Asda has 3-4 flavours (including a chilli one, which is where this started...).

But, I'd picked up a bag of 2 of these, to use as flatbreads/pizza bases. The other week I'd bought some fresh chillies to top a pizza with - and still had about 8 I'd not used... and I've still got a 2" square block of the cheese I was trying to eat my way through 3-4 weeks ago. I've also had half a tin of beans lurking in the fridge for 3-4 days.

So there it was.... tea. Naan bread, spoon out beans onto it, snip the biggest chilli across the top, thinly slice the cheese on top.... and bung it in the nuker on medium for 2 minutes. Sprinkled some (best before 2011) random herbs I found in the cupboard and Bob's Your Uncle. Nice tasty tea.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Ocado sent me an intro offer to Holidaylettings.co.uk = £1 for first 2 months, standard price is allegedly £299+vat pa :eek:

I could probably have matched that deal....

michaels wrote: »

As I am only looking for Olympic lets I will cancel before paying.

Crafty

michaels wrote: »

Apparently my property is also now on tripadviser.com (anyone heard of it?)

Who hasn't..... it's the biggest fraud/rip off story of the past 12 months in such things. Owners have been paying people to make good postings... and punters have been blackmailing owners to not give them a bad rating.

michaels wrote: »

It has been up about a week, I have had 1 enquiry, I have done no SEO myself, however I need to rent for at least 2 weeks for it to be worth sorting out the insurance, gas and electric certificate etc. 5 bed 4 bath I am asking 1500pw during the Olympics which sounds cheap to me but then it is a decent trek from the Olympic Village (20 min train plus 5 min tube + ?? walk and queue). What I can't see on the site is any way to track views of the property or find out what search terms people use.

Hope you get a booking soon then... until you do it'll be gnawing at you.

silvercar

It has been up about a week, I have had 1 enquiry, I have done no SEO myself, however I need to rent for at least 2 weeks for it to be worth sorting out the insurance, gas and electric certificate etc. 5 bed 4 bath I am asking 1500pw during the Olympics which sounds cheap to me but then it is a decent trek from the Olympic Village (20 min train plus 5 min tube + ?? walk and queue). What I can't see on the site is any way to track views of the property or find out what search terms people use.

Have I got the right property? In a crescent? Availability is showing as May and June (but not first week of June) at £750 per week.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

UHT milk lasts for 6-9 months, unopened, no real excuse not to have some in stock.

Except that it's hard to find anywhere to buy it in quanitities less than a pint at a time, which is a bit of a waste if all you do with it is give one visitor a splash of milk in their tea and not use the rest until it goes off.

Wheezy wrote: »

I just had my first UK strawberries of the year.
Elsantas from Hampshire, 1.50 for a small box and quite tasteless.
Probably a bit early in the year still.

PS : I :heart2: strawberries

LNE and I always used to consider that the season for UK strawberries ran from his birthday (next week) to mine (2nd half of August).

Wheezy wrote: »

posted a video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvynDB_iFDk

nothing special, just a westie traipsing around

I :heart2: Wheezy-dog.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Personally, I would not want strangers in my house,

It could be rented as an Olympic knocking shop by Romanians.... or anybody who fancied. Although michaels' is probably too far from the actual venue for that.

What people in Cornwall do, typically, is they have a garden studio/shed they move into. This tends to be the B&Bs though - as in peak season they can call their own bedroom a family room and get £70-100/night for it, so it's worth it.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Except that it's hard to find anywhere to buy it in quanitities less than a pint at a time, which is a bit of a waste if all you do with it is give one visitor a splash of milk in their tea and not use the rest until it goes off.



LNE and I always used to consider that the season for UK strawberries ran from his birthday (next week) to mine (2nd half of August).


I :heart2: Wheezy-dog.

I used ro use powdered milk in my bath. No reason i can think of not to use uht milk.l

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

AS levels at the end of the first year at 6th form are mid May. They count for half the A level score so are crucial.

Even if a person had no intention of going to university, having their A level qualifications under their belt would be a better start to a career than not having them.

I agree. And if they do want to go to uni, then the AS results are the ones they can put on their application form, whereas the A2 results don't come out until later.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't here and once I move I expect to be sleeping on a lilo and using a garden chair for my own furniture.....

Even when I had a house I never had a table.

And I don't know anybody. I am also "jumpy" when people are in my space.

And now you're doing that bizarre thing of creating solutions for problems that don't exist. You're suggesting I invite people round... just so I can buy milk??? Eh?

:rotfl:

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

It should be tax free income in DWs name (or under 'rent-a-room' scheme )

I'd be surprised if that counts as rent-a-room is for people living in the home. And I bet HMRC are all over the Olympic rentals for quick wins.

The trouble with larger places is they tend to attract groups of people.... in a bad way. e.g. "Family home, sleeps 7" turns into two separate families, so four adults and often 4-5 kids.... and, often, like happened today, 5+ other friends/families turn up and everybody is shouting and partying and slamming doors and lighting barBQs, etc.

People aren't civilised when they've rented somewhere.