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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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You're right!chewmylegoff wrote: »There are at least three and possibly four pubs in Claygate I can't remember if the fourth one shut down. How many pubs do you need?! Hinchley Wood is the place without a pub I think.
From memory the tower thing is up for sale - I think it's a three bed house with an asking price of about £2 million!
Quite an unusual building!
Don't know about living on so many floors!
As regards pubs you've clearly done more homework than me. I know lots of hhostelries in and around Kingston broough and nearvy areas and never heard of one around there. I hope there's some good ones for you.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I spent my childhood having to keep everything for best
... and my parents always kept stuff for best to the extent they never got use out of it. One cutlery set (nothing special) was only EVER used 2x a year. Xmas Day and if there was another "for best" reason (usuallyy wasn't).
I come from a family where things were kept for best and it is such a burden. I then inherited things that were only used 'For Best' from my grandparents house. Useful items such as delicate, dainty 1920's lead crystal sherry glasses.
They live in a box as there is never a Best Enough occasion to use them...and we don't drink sherry.
Really, they would be more appreciated by a bunch of 6/7 yr old girls who could have somthing pink and fizzy in them as a treat....but they are too special for that purpose too
whoa, that's a big fat juicy house:)chewmylegoff wrote: »
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38735896.html
The downstairs is almost exactly what we want although the upstairs looks a bit cramped and I'd rather it cost about £300,000 less....
Hope you feel better soon......lostinrates wrote: »Glass taps...cleaning nightmare.
I want a waterfall tap for my bath upstairs, I know I will have to off the peg but in an ideal world I'd be able to find a limestone one.
I am sore tonight, have a frightful rash all over my face, lame on both legs and back.:(.
Been a very mixed day
I didn't know they were called waterfall taps. I called it a conduit tap as the design reference seemed to be a Roman drain. We just got one as a mixer.
Now back to page 130, busy here today...0 -
I come from a family where things were kept for best and it is such a burden. I then inherited things that were only used 'For Best' from my grandparents house. Useful items such as delicate, dainty 1920's lead crystal sherry glasses.
They live in a box as there is never a Best Enough occasion to use them...and we don't drink sherry.
Really, they would be more appreciated by a bunch of 6/7 yr old girls who could have somthing pink and fizzy in them as a treat....but they are too special for that purpose too
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Ah. Some thing we do have from dh's mother is an inordinate number of sherry glasses. This is the most fabulous idea, and next time I have little girls here I shall offer them drinks in these glasses. We have so many we could stand to lose a few.0 -
I will always remember seeing an amazing castle for sale near Inverness in the Sunday papers when we bought our 1st micro/derelict house......same price 60k.I would not want to live somewhere where house prices give you so little bang for your buck. OTOH, moving oop north or to Scotland for cheaper HP doesn't appeal either. Interesting how we all choose differently, isn't it?
I then recall going through all the reasons why we couldn't live in Scotland. Not being able to relocate our work was number 1 and 2, the cold.
I love Weymouth and nearby. That was my no 1 choice for our spare house but it is just that bit too far away......the drive would be a real effort on a Friday night.lemonjelly wrote: »Visited Lands End last year. Had a fantastic evening there!
Looking at holidays for this year. Weymouth is looking quite possible...lostinrates wrote: »Ah. Some thing we do have from dh's mother is an inordinate number of sherry glasses. This is the most fabulous idea, and next time I have little girls here I shall offer them drinks in these glasses. We have so many we could stand to lose a few.
We must have about 2 dozen of the things. Thing is my sis + mother have some too. I think my grandparents did lots of entertaining 0 -
£1.8 million .... and I'd have to rip the wing mirrors off my car to fit it in the garage.... then climb out through the rear door
Turn the "hall" into a 1-bed flat .... and rent out the rest as a holiday home. No stairs then 0 -
I had it on my list months before I changed it to here.... I thought it'd be shabby/derelict and lacking in any form of employment. Since moving, I've checked my random perceptions and everybody's said I was right and it is grotty.I love Weymouth and nearby. That was my no 1 choice for our spare house but it is just that bit too far away......the drive would be a real effort on a Friday night.0 -
I will always remember seeing an amazing castle for sale near Inverness in the Sunday papers when we bought our 1st micro/derelict house......same price 60k.
I then recall going through all the reasons why we couldn't live in Scotland. Not being able to relocate our work was number 1 and 2, the cold.
I love Weymouth and nearby. That was my no 1 choice for our spare house but it is just that bit too far away......the drive would be a real effort on a Friday night.
This discussion has set me thinking about why I found it comparatively easy to settle where I am now. Earlier in my life, moving from Bristol to Abingdon, and then to Oxford, and later still to one of Bristol's commuter towns in North Somerset, all felt quite comfortable. The feeling was that this was a new town/city, but still the same part of the country. London does not feel like that to me, though, and neither does Birmingham, or anywhere further north than that, or Wales. I start to feel a bit of an outsider and would not be surprised to be regarded as an outsider by the inhabitants. It's probably quite unfounded and irrational - I don't think twice about whether other people belong in this part of the country or not. I think the "patch" where I feel on home turf is a chunk of England that's south of Birmingham, east of about Taunton, and outside the M25.
That's pretty academic now, though. I'm settled where I am now (and probably in the house I'm in now) for the foreseeable future. I'm settled in my job, and am past the stage of wanting to climb up the career ladder or move for a promotion. My kids (who both find change very difficult, after what they've been through) are settled in their schools, and we all have friends and belong to a great church. My dad's only an hour away. There's no reason for me to move again, and plenty of reasons for staying where we are.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I could do with some advice please, NP. About Spain. I'm a bit lost, because this is not the sort of holiday we usually take. Anybody with local knowledge, please?
The plan is to fly into Malaga, pick up a hire car, then stay in a hotel for 2/3 nights before going to stay with my cousins in Marbella for a couple of nights. Then fly home. So far, we have booked the flights.
First problemo - car hire. DoyouSpain are *unbelievably* cheap. £30 for 5 days, CDW included, but they have very mixed reviews. Easyjet are offering us a hire car for over 6 times as much. How do we find a hire car at a reasonable price from a decent firm?
Hotel - where is nice to stay? Not in town, we would like a quiet country house hotel sort of place, up in the hills possibly. How do you go about finding that in Spain?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
63 work hours this week so far, another 30-ish to go.
On a positive note, a nice bottle of wine and the entire back catalogue of Cracker has made the last dozen spreadsheets a tad more bearable....
But there goes the diet (again)....
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
I am not complaining, I just thought some people might find this quite funny.
Have been feeling sounder and sounder through out the day, came up to bed and have been reading. Now I need the loo but cannot use right leg. Nothing below knee and knee hurts like a son of a dog dog when it moves.
I'm just lying here pondering the best way to get to the loo and back (it will probably all be better in the morning, but I would rather not try and sleep without doing a widdle.
It's one of those strange quandaries in the life of having not permanent disability...because if you can plan for this its easy, you keep a pair of crutches but the bed.....but it's so rare I need to it would be way oTT to do that now!
Ah, there we go, knee stopping firing so much now ...off to pee ...patience is always a virtue!0
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