Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Generali's Saturday 5pm Checklist

Had nice day with the kids? (tick)
Sunny weather? (tick)
Kids exhausted? (tick)
Bought dinner? (tick - Steak with 'sauce echalotte', salad and homemade chips) (tick)
Sitting down with nice glass of wine? (tick)

Mine:
Got a nice day planned alone? No
Sunny weather? No
--- (not relevant)
Bought dinner? No - it'll probably be a cheese baguette
Sitting down with a nice glass of wine? No, I never have/buy/drink wine. Got tap water.

lostinrates

We have a mixed day planned. Some gardening, so e furniture moving. Stuff like that.

So far though, what to wear is proving a tricky choice ...it's been very changeable this morning.

neverdespairgirl

It's completely glorious in Kent - unbroken blue skies, warm sunshine, everything lush and beautiful. Isaac always wakes horribly early our first day here, so we've breakfasted (him), had tea (Isaac, Dad, and me), and walked round the ponds, stables, garden, veggie patch, greenhouses and polly-tunnels. And now we're back indoors, dealing with wet feet and second cups of tea!

It's pretty chilly out of the sun, but you can feel the warmth of it.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Ouch, good luck getting rid, Lydia.

Thanks NDG. This morning it's gone. I woke up with a headache - frustrating because headaches usually mean I need more sleep, but I woke of my own acccord half an hour before the alarm. But the headache is manageable and I know what will make it go away, so not scary at all. V glad to be rid of the weird ear pain.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah... thought I must be doing something wrong. It's a new meter, so m3

I just checked, it is showing "unit rates"

So that's misleading - to say it's the unit rate, then in tiny/faint writing to say rates are in pence per kWh.

So now I am confused. Is the rate of 4.427 the unit rate, as the big writing says, or the kWh rate, or are they the same as it's an m3 meter... or what?

http://www.britishgas.co.uk/content/britishgas/products-and-services/gas-and-electricity/our-energy-tariffs/tariff-rates.html

Pastures, they are all units. A kWh is one kind of unit, a cubic metre is another kind of unit, and so are all the other things you've mentioned. Your meter is labelled in cubic metres, so each time it says one volume unit, you've used about 11kWh. Sure, that won't be perfectly perfectly accurate, but you don't need to calculate your usage to a fraction of a penny. What you need to know is that your "about half a unit" the other day will have cost you twenty-something pence.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It's completely glorious in Kent - unbroken blue skies, warm sunshine, everything lush and beautiful. Isaac always wakes horribly early our first day here, so we've breakfasted (him), had tea (Isaac, Dad, and me), and walked round the ponds, stables, garden, veggie patch, greenhouses and polly-tunnels. And now we're back indoors, dealing with wet feet and second cups of tea!

It's pretty chilly out of the sun, but you can feel the warmth of it.

It was glorious here at 8:30 but is starting to cloud over now. I need to sent the kids outside while it's still nice enough out there, in case it rains later.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

A google search throws up this, can't vouch of its accuracy, Pastures old thing:



Good luck!

Generali's Saturday 5pm Checklist

Had nice day with the kids? (tick)
Sunny weather? (tick)
Kids exhausted? (tick)
Bought dinner? (tick - Steak with 'sauce echalotte', salad and homemade chips) (tick)
Sitting down with nice glass of wine? (tick)

Well we may be on the other side of the world but we intend to do sunny,
DD football, food shopping
but not wine and more likely to be the adults exhausted than the kids.

We will also go and do some more site measurements at the potential investment property. We have now invested 250 quid in a meeting with the planners which will hopefully be in the next few weeks.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks NDG. This morning it's gone. I woke up with a headache - frustrating because headaches usually mean I need more sleep, but I woke of my own acccord half an hour before the alarm.

It was glorious here at 8:30 but is starting to cloud over now. I need to sent the kids outside while it's still nice enough out there, in case it rains later.

Still sunny here - Dad's taken Isaac and the dawgs out for a stroll, so Mama and I are chatting and doing.... nothing.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a mixed day planned. Some gardening, so e furniture moving. Stuff like that.

So far though, what to wear is proving a tricky choice ...it's been very changeable this morning.

You need: A Onesie, light kagoul and wellies

No thanks needed for my hot fashion tips and advice, I'm an expert who loves to share

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pastures, they are all units. A kWh is one kind of unit, a cubic metre is another kind of unit, and so are all the other things you've mentioned. Your meter is labelled in cubic metres, so each time it says one volume unit, you've used about 11kWh. Sure, that won't be perfectly perfectly accurate, but you don't need to calculate your usage to a fraction of a penny. What you need to know is that your "about half a unit" the other day will have cost you twenty-something pence.

Cheers.... they don't make it easy do they!

You see, all I am after is some awareness of the meter -v- bill. So, if I have the heating on, I can now think "There goes 10p/hour"

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

... Mama and I are chatting and doing.... nothing.

We never had chats, or conversations in our house.

Once you stepped over that threshold it was a constant barrage of dad telling you everything.... what's right, what you should do, how you should do it .... complete control.

No conversations.

And now mum's not playing with her marbles ..... conversation's down to meaningless words and bizarre short answers. You run out of questions to ask after about 4.... and there's no information or questions or anything forthcoming.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We will also go and do some more site measurements at the potential investment property. We have now invested 250 quid in a meeting with the planners which will hopefully be in the next few weeks.

On the telly it seems to be people buying £400-500k houses, turning them into £600-700 houses that make money.

Further down the food chain, many are losing. There were a couple of 'interesting' ones on HutH, here are the outline details of two of them:

[1] Chatham, father/son prop devs, been doing it for years (been on HutH before too). Plot of land, with detailed PP for 4 Semis, guide £200-220k. Bought it for £275k. Budget to build 4 houses £400k. On revisit, spent £400k. Agents valued at £250-275k and £300-325k. They said the £300k was off the mark and the £250-275k was what they were after. A quick look on RM revealed that three have sold, at £210k, £185k, £185k. So they've still got one to sell, a £95k debt + costs of selling/taxes etc.

[2] Dover. 2 bed flat, Guide £50k. Sold for £65k. They spent £15k. Agents said it'd be on at £95k to accept £85-90k. It's now on RM at "from £75k" and SSTC.