Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

NDG - happy birthday wishes for Isaac.

I think it quite a swizz if you now have parties and send in cake to school on the day. There is definitely birthday celebration inflation since my dd was at school.

It's most definitely expected - but I'm not my mother, so my offering wasn't the Bayeux Tapestry in icing form, but was instead a couple of bog-standard sponge cakes, one with chocolate butter icing, the other with vanilla.

Sorry to hear about the argument with DD - it sounds very upsetting. <hugs> and glad you've made it up now.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

LL has put in another unexpected/early-ish visit. No idea what they're doing but I know they're out around the boundaries/somewhere .... and have been since 8.15. Can't go and look to see else I might have to speak to them.

Edit: Well, first I looked out the front window and they were right by my door and front way, titfering about and picking up leaf debris.

And, as I started typing this ... LL's face just popped over the fence, with a paintbrush. They're creosoting the fence panels. How bizarre.... that's my neighbour's family garden now .... and the LL's turned up to creosote. All unannounced/unexpected.

So, I can't sit in here wondering what'll happen next. Going to have a drive out and have a cig.

What happens next?

Spirit..who is now day dreaming about how lovely the IOW is...sends you details of a property.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41586854.html?showcase=true

Next instalment... is that you see IOW has potential..lower cost houses..great environment...near a beach...not furren...ferry to Lymington to make travel to old doable...no worse economic/job prospects than where you currently live.

Future episode: Pastures escapes landlords, rents that eat her capital and has a bedroom to sleep in, a kitchen to cook things with vitamins in, she eats 5 a day and can have a fag in her sunny courtyard. Her car is OK outside IOW is low crime and she feels safe.

LiR stops hoping for lottery win to fund a chef for Pastures.

THE END

neverdespairgirl

ALthough £120k isn't much, because it's only about 415 feet sq, it works out at about £288 / sq foot.

Is that a lot cheaper overall?

Lovely courtyard, though!

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

What happens next?

Spirit..who is now day dreaming about how lovely the IOW is...sends you details of a property.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41586854.html?showcase=true

Next instalment... is that you see IOW has potential..lower cost houses..great environment...near a beach...not furren...ferry to Lymington to make travel to old doable...no worse economic/job prospects than where you currently live.

Future episode: Pastures escapes landlords, rents that eat her capital and has a bedroom to sleep in, a kitchen to cook things with vitamins in, she eats 5 a day and can have a fag in her sunny courtyard. Her car is OK outside IOW is low crime and she feels safe.

LiR stops hoping for lottery win to fund a chef for Pastures.

THE END

And nikkster comes to stay when she is on the IoW in Sept

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

ALthough £120k isn't much, because it's only about 415 feet sq, it works out at about £288 / sq foot.

Is that a lot cheaper overall?

Lovely courtyard, though!

I am browsing Rightmove and there are lots of houses in reach of decent beaches for £140K or less. You do not get that on the other side of the Solent.

I know Isaac has that grandparent home/garden/acres to run free in....but he might 'need' a seaside place for bucket and spade trips, learning to sail and windsurf. Seems a shame not to do it whilst he is a child...and if you have another little one...it will solve future holiday thoughts for years.

PasturesNew

07:15: Just stepped outside the back for a cig, in my jim jams..... and the LL's out there again. This is getting annoying. They have retained a parking space/shed at the bottom of the two gardens .... and a shed in my neighbour's garden. The whole plot is like a dairylea cheese and they are in the pointy bit.

Edit: And now she's painting her side of that fence, or doing something by the trells. Doesn't "need" it doing.....

Edit 2 (07:40): And I think they might have gone... obviously because it just started to rain

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

...he might 'need' a seaside place for bucket and spade trips, learning to sail and windsurf. ...

I've never been sailing, or in a boat, nor windsurfing... or any expensive watersports.... it's not a 'need'. It's what rich/Londoners do

PasturesNew

I've driven as far as the IoW ferry, there are two ferries and one's about 12 miles from here.... but I didn't stop to watch the (small) ferry as the car park costs money. And I've not been to the IoW as the ferry costs money.

As for living, the people on the IoW are continually moaning that [a] there's no jobs getting stuff is difficult as they have to get on the ferry to go to shops [c] the ferry's expensive.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

ALthough £120k isn't much, because it's only about 415 feet sq, it works out at about £288 / sq foot.

Is that a lot cheaper overall?

Lovely courtyard, though!

Where I am, what's currently advertised as "the cheapest flat ..." which is a studio of total floor space 15'x15' is £310/sq foot. No frontage, no parking, no courtyard.

The cheapest 2-bed mid-terrace works out at £258/sq foot.

It's a fact that the bigger you go, the less any house costs per square foot. There's a "base point" price. That's why people can buy a rabbit hutch for £200k, but a mansion for £400k in the same areas. Price -v- square footage isn't a straight line.

Generali

Hi all. Sorry I've not been posting with the nice peeps much, been putting in the pre-holiday 12 hour days at work and just can't keep up.

I'm still up for an ale and a bite to eat. We have an able organizer and he is sorting via PM.