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

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's absolutely gorgeous, I can see why you like it. I notice a trend though that features in both of our preferences. Why is it that when you go over say, £7m for a house you get built in gargoyles?

Perhaps I shouldn't mention the gargoyles though, Pastures might sneak them on her wish list;).

in all honesty i wouldn't buy somewhere like that even if i was a billionaire. if i was super rich i don't think i would want to live in a big property, probably ideally i would want:

big reception room for watching TV
dining room
reception room converted into a gym
kitchen
three bedrooms
two bathrooms

i'd probably just buy somewhere in belgravia or something like that and just spend my days wandering around decked out in ridiculous orange trousers and an outrageous tweed jacket, maybe a cravat, i don't know.

PasturesNew

Pics 2&3 - probably one of the weirdest kitchens to be found in a £325k house
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22806774.html

mystic_trev

chewmylegoff wrote: »

speaking of stone the crows, poor old aussies are still stuck on 1 gold. what a terrible shame.

Apparently, If Yorkshire was a Country it would have won more medals than the aussies :rotfl:

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

you could employ a couple of gamekeepers to patrol the grounds, and you can send the butler to the chippy in your helicopter!

Ah... staff.... I forgot that with wealth comes staff.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

And then I was told that it's got a 2 recordings limit - and if there are 2 recordings going on then you can't watch a 3rd channel. A system that works great in a 1-person household no doubt

Years of you telling us every downside of living in a one person household and you manage to find the thing that's the downside in a multi person household.

It is fine if you don't have a total TV addicted hog in the house. Most stuff you can get on demand now, anyway. I don't even bother trying to record stuff, but yes it drives me mad when I'm watching a program at midnight and I get that message because H is recording two other random things. I just cancel them He can't possibly watch all the stuff he records and sometimes he records stuff as he's watching it. Shrug.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

... just spend my days wandering around decked out in ridiculous orange trousers and an outrageous tweed jacket, maybe a cravat, i don't know.

Best plan EVA!!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Pics 2&3 - probably one of the weirdest kitchens to be found in a £325k house
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22806774.html

that is....bizarre. still it seems they have managed to sell the house, allegedly.

expect you just rip out the entire interior and start again!

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

spend my days wandering around decked out in ridiculous orange trousers and an outrageous tweed jacket, maybe a cravat, i don't know.

I have a friend that does that, but he lives in Streatham. How he's still alive, I don't know.

I'm with you on the small thing. Even with our family of 6 now, there is no need for more than 2000square feet. I'd buy beautiful/unique/exclusive.

chewmylegoff

mystic_trev wrote: »

Apparently, If Yorkshire was a Country it would have won more medals than the aussies :rotfl:

OH didn't enjoy that fact very much!!

chewmylegoff

it's my birthday today- happy birthday to me. i'm happy now, got olympics tickets, sitting on my rear whilst OH makes my birthday dinner (although a little annoyed that she didn't do what i asked for which was a massive plate of fishfinger sandwiches with vegetable samosas on the side), whilst i watch people running around a track on the telly. wonderful .

4 of my friends are at the olympic stadium for the 100m final tonight though, i would have preferred that i think!