Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

michaels

Couple of paracetmol and a mug of boiled water is 95% as effective as lemsip and will get you well enough to get to the shops. Luckily it is long enough after we met up for me to think it wan't me what passed it on to you.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I ended up being awake most of the night .... got a nasty sore throat/cough, so much so that when I am coughing I am nearly throwing up.... and my Lemsips are still in storage.... I need to make the effort to go out later, to the shops, to buy Lemsips and some easily eaten food. No shops round here, so I have to drive.... no matter how grotty I feel, I know I have to do it so I feel better sooner.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I am angry at the delays you are experiencing. It simply should not be the case that all the neurologists in the county go on holiday at the same time. :mad:

It's probably more the case that there's only one that comes for one day a week .....

JonnyBravo

vivatifosi wrote: »

Jonny, as you posted at just past midnight, was it tomorrow as in today, or tomorrow as in really tomorrow? Just wondered if you were there today watching Kath Grainger. Hope you had/have a good time either way.

Ah yes I see what you mean, I was there watching Kath Grainger.

I got the tickets at just gone midnight. Had worked out travel plans etc by 1am. Went to bed but didn't sleep til nearly 2am I'd guess. Alarm set for 5am but woke up at 4.59am in anticipation. Funny how the human body can do that.
Last night I was in bed at 9.30pm.... seriously tired but had an amazing day. The wall of noise we were producing in that last 700m was amazing. (Our tickets were in line with the 60m to go bouys - great view)
Just brilliant.

And a nice dry run for the sprint canoeing next Saturday.
And just wanted to add the organisation at both events has been amazing. Everything has run superbly smoothly.

PasturesNew

I've been putting off any form of heating food here as the kitchen's dinky ..... but I've got to work out how to use what looks like a combi/microwave oven; I just want to use it as a microwave. And there's no toaster, which is a bummer. I've got one of those Tesco half price takeaways.... "Serves 2" indian: 2 curries, huge rice, bhajis, naans. So the toaster'd be needed for the naans. There is a 'proper cooker' here but it's not worth firing that up (it's probably filthy too) just to heat up one naan..... off to get the model number so I can google it and see what it is.

Edit: Oh lord... it's minging inside - clearly never been cleaned out..... ever. Loads-a-splatter.

Also, fridge stinks .... he said the other day "there's a horrid smell and I can't work out why"... well, I've looked and worked it out in 45 seconds, so I had planned on telling him when he gets in from work "I've found the source and reason of the smell... now I am going to tell you what to do and you're going to sort it out..." so I could just wait to eat until I've given him his Cleaning Orders over the microwave too

He'll thank me .....

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd like to spend £140-175k.... I'll probably spend £200k..... I look up to £250k.... I've only a rough idea of how much money I've got, but know it's not £250k and no chance of borrowing any shortfall.


I've had a brand new house (built 1990) and one 120 years old (1880); I've lived in houses 40-70 years old.

20 years means it's mostly modern, modern construction .... so double glazing by default etc .... and less years for somebody to have spent decades botching or badly upgrading. If you have a 100 year old house there's a raft of old pipes/wires here/there/everywhere... sometimes connected, sometimes not.... god knows how furred up the pipes are, or whether the electrics follow proper routes... etc etc. When it was built it won't have had electricity or indoor plumbing, so these will have been added (probably at least twice) by god knows who (and probably the neighbour) in a haphazard fashion.

I also prefer the look of houses 20 odd years old. I'm daft because I kind of want to like the way my house looks .... rather than being blinkered to what it looks like from the kerb.

I like bricks too. No render. And preferably not painted (maintenance to be done).

I mentally have the perfect house in my mind's eye and I know it doesn't exist.... but you start with a template and then what you're prepared to compromise on can be thought about as each "kind of/nearly" house becomes available.

I could write a book about what I like/don't like and why .....

And before anybody says "buy land, build it"..... that's just not going to happen for the usual reason people don't.... getting land, the right land, the right size land, in the right location... could take 10 years to find

There are loads of places in different parts of the country that meet your criteria. This one is near the sea, asking £125k, and ticks all the boxes. (There is off road parking - it's not obvious, but see pic 10.) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34881721.html

Of course, it's nowhere near Poole.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

There are loads of places in different parts of the country that meet your criteria. This one is near the sea, asking £125k, and ticks all the boxes. (There is off road parking - it's not obvious, but see pic 10.) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34881721.html

Of course, it's nowhere near Poole.

That's the thing... it has to be near THIS town/beach
Town's got high jobs potential. There's not much of that in Norfolk.

Yours is also terraced.... and there's no garage. Off road parking's not enough.

If I just wanted "cheap ... round here or so", this is £130k http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37249610.html

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the thing... it has to be near THIS town/beach
Town's got high jobs potential. There's not much of that in Norfolk.

Yours is also terraced.... and there's no garage. Off road parking's not enough.

If I just wanted "cheap ... round here or so", this is £130k http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37249610.html

Looks quite good for £130k.

Edit: As you are a cash buyer, you could look at auction properties.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Looks quite good for £130k.

Yep ... except it's a rough area

It's what it looks like, what it's got, how much it is ..... and if the area's a "no go"

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yep ... except it's a rough area

It's what it looks like, what it's got, how much it is ..... and if the area's a "no go"

See my edit about auction properties - but tread with great care ofc.

GDB2222

PN, can you do me a favour and go and see this one, please. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38184617.html (Not that it's suitable.)

What I need is a zoomed in view of pic 5, please.