Flying solo

*Robin*

Hello Diary and Money Savers, :hello:

Joeyjimbles - what a fantastic user-name! Welcome to the Nest, and thank you for your kind words.
We'll see about the book. Please don't hold your breath..

Missrlr, thanks for popping in, it's good to hear from you.
Is the skin very tight over your scar, or slow to heal? Do you happen to have the plant which is the very best aid for healthy skin regrowth? ..Somehow think you will know about A Vera, but if not I'd be happy to bring you one - Young Gardener had to displace a couple of mature specimens this week, so they're now in pots waiting for a new home. Won't be for a couple of months though, so not a lot of use now..

Here's a little chuckle for you re the ISA. I didn't understand; thought each year's allocation was considered a separate pot, as it were. So have effectively been minimising interest rates by having an ISA with several banks, opening a new one each year (until now). :wall:
Live and learn <sigh>

Sparky - it's just as well you're happily married! Divo Three gets far too much adoration as it is! :rotfl:

The Easter rental visitors were three gorgeous girlies whose attention had been drawn to DS..
Unfortunately I grew less and less impressed by them as their holiday progressed.
Despite being advised to book a hire car with their flights, they chose to look for one at the airport:
Easter week? 800€.
So instead, Divo Three drove them around - in my van (which he spent hours cleaning dog hairs out of beforehand). The only time I saw the van was when it ran out of fuel.
These three women - all physically very beautiful, late twenties, highly educated, interesting people - treated DS like a servant, and were most put out when he refused to take them to visit a city four hours' drive away. Instead, he dropped them off - a 35 mile trip each way - at the station (and collected 'em at midnight on their return).
They deducted the 200€ they'd spent on train fares and a hostel from their house rental - which was already discounted 25% off the usual rate because one has been a friend of DS3 for a couple of years.
They offered precisely nothing to cover the van's fuel or DS' time for running 'em around. Neither did they tidy the house before leaving - not even doing the washing up!
Disgusting. They were talking about coming back for a longer holiday.
I think not. :mad:

It has been a week of possibly risky ventures: For the first time was tempted to get involved with crowd funding, after Divo Four alerted me to an invention which really deserves to reach production. Will have to wait a while for a sample, but am hopeful this could be an interesting business opportunity.
The other thing was a four figure favour for someone I've never met. Cue a couple of nail-biting days until everything went through.. All sorted happily now, thank goodness. Good karma emanating in all directions; the trust was worthwhile.

Closer to home, Young Gardener smashed through the main soil pipe. That stopped all other activities until a solution had been found! :rotfl:
The odorous pipe now bears a glass fibre patch, although there's still a big hole because I want to be certain the repair stays dry before asking YG to fill it in. :cool:

Spends:
CD's gloop & anti-bug stuff - £40
Fuel - £55
Garden centre - £10
Young Gardener - £35

Sun_Addict

Hello Robin. Words fail me re those girls, how rude and disrespectful. What a cheek to think they would be welcome to return!!! You really should write a book - I can even envisage a TV series Good luck with the ventures, hope they bear fruit.

stepuptothepl8

Hi Robin

I've got a holiday let too - are you a member on LMH (laymyhat) by any chance? A really useful and lively forum.

missrlr

Utterly disgraceful behaviour I would be sending them a bill for cleaning. And how daft for DS to be so willing a driver and so taken advantage of! I am glad to hear about karma and thus perhaps the utterly disgraceful visitors will have a bite on the bum.

Glad CD continues to be well. I am already mutilating a Vera plant but this scar continues to be raw I think I am impatient ....

Back to sorting the house for the week shenanigans to commence

grannyx2

Wow what dreadful behaviour from those madams. How dare they think you should bare the cost of their trip. Welcomed back, I think not.

Granny x

Bubblesmum

Waving

Just shows our changing society, we self catered for my entire holiday, and the last thing my mother taught me to do, was wash the kitchen floor, to leave as found.

I am sad that we so many do not think of others nowadays.

It will be there loss

Knit_Witch

Yep a bill for the cleaning, and the diesel/petrol, AND the money they decided to knock off the bill! (oh and interest)

Brightspark87

what rude ladies! I would never treat your homes with such disrespect, sometimes it doesn't matter about money or education some people don't have manners, love to you and CD x

debtfreewannabe321

WOW! I think you should invoice those little madams the cost of the fuel, ds3's time, the 200 they took off and demand payment. Then ask them when they'd like to return for that long holiday (with a 10% inflation on the original price!) xx

Dansmam

Hey Robin. When it comes to self-centered guests, have no time for people who play status games like that, but wonder if they were copying bloke behaviour in their peer group? I've been thinking a lot about generation Z or whatever it is currently - millennial are we now? I dunno, over the last few weeks. They are so different I can't believe.
Am sad it seems many 20s etc, don't realise they can't just take, but I suspect we who worked all their childhoods raised a self centred generation because we were centred on trying to make a world we thought would be fair and equal for them. So they think they deserve to have what they want.
Glad for the CD good news. We have dog ear trouble here but in a 5 year old. Lump looking nasty and getting bigger daily. Vet trip due. Worried but hoping it'll all be good.
Disrespect for other people and their homes is not a thing anyone needs or should be expected to put up with.
DM x