Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

Well done Nikkster. Now get on with it!

Manana...

I'm going to do some reading tonight and set my alarm for tomorrow.

Alarm on a Sunday = making up for badness today

Spirit_2

Nikkster,

It is fabulous. It looks like a really good long term buy.

Well done.

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

Disposable BBQ 2 quid plus 1 match.

Was driving last night. Devon would have been fine if the phone (on the rare occasion it did have a signal) hadn't kept telling me it was 5-10 degrees warmer and much sunnier in St Albans. Went to hope cove one day which was nice, kids had some swimming lessons in parents (posh alert) pool which they shivered through in the rain. A lot of time was spent at Woodlands amusement park where the lack of phone data signal was annoying. Contemplated mentioning to a np that we could come home up the a303 last night but decided she had enough on her plate without being invaded by some very active NPs.

I was passed in Winkleigh yesterday by someone who was driving a (black) Fiat like you used to have, and might still own! The driver was not a Devon maid.....;)

Couldn't have been you by any chance???? I just wondered at the time, those cars being rare here etc.;)

PS. Not lurking, honestly!:o I just came over to see if you were perchance down this way. While you were staying 'dahn sarth,' you were in the county....

Hmmm...Mystery deepens. :cool::D

:hello:Hello to everyone else !

vivatifosi

Evening Mr Snave! Good to see you around these parts again!

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

What a great day yesterday. It was the last day of the kids' football season so we went out for lunch with the parents from my daughter's team to the local club

http://huntershillclub1-px.rtrk.com.au/

Clubs like that are usually


!

I will save PN the trouble..POSH ALERT

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

Nikkster,

It is fabulous. It looks like a really good long term buy.

Well done.

Thank you, I think so too. Its taken me years to get to this point, once I'm in My House I don't intend on moving home again for quite some time.

The valuation is booked in for this week.
I'm getting a full building survey (probably next week) for what it is worth.
Searches are hopefully underway.

Have been informally told I've passed the credit checks so mortgage is just subject to valuation coming through ok.

Tomorrow I will keep thinking of house to a minimum (rather than spending the day looking at pretty things I won't be able to afford for quite some time) and focus on other things....

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

I will save PN the trouble..POSH ALERT

Oh I've given up with him... cost of the afternoon was probably more than my total income for last month

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

...rather than spending the day looking at pretty things I won't be able to afford for quite some time) and focus on other things....

Unfortunately, owning a house means you can forget pretty things as stuff you can't see, or don't care about, need your money instead. Stuff that happens, leaks, tweaks, paint, lightbulbs, bits and bobs, boilers, heating, electrics, draughts, cracks, grout.... dull !!!!!!.

The house I got rid of had about 100 odd jobs that needed doing and half a dozen criticals.... and after 7 years I'd still not got any curtains or lampshades.

lostinrates

Nikkster,

Forget the house full stop. Time to worry about stuff when it completes. Even then, live in it buying just bare essentials. When you live in it you might feel differently about what you'd buy?.your taste and the house colliding ...

I love you so much for trying to crowd so much in your mind at once, but. You are only human, and you'll snap if you try too hard to do it all.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

I am indebted to Tim Harford (the Undercover Economist at the FT) for this penetrating insight into a thorny household issue.




http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6860487a-bfba-11da-939f-0000779e2340.html#axzz2avwZ17IS

In Devon the seats are not soft close so spent the first few days dropping it with a clang - still at least it shows I was putting it down....

lostinrates wrote: »

DH and I don't close the door, we keep talking....

Similarly, at uni, we had one bathroom, you got used to some one peeing while you were in the bath. We all formed very close friendships.:rotfl:

I'm not sure which I would find more tricky - urinating with a random stranger in the bath not watching or bathing with a random stranger using the toilet. I have always assumed that in a relationship both could use the bathroom at the same time, a had a Japanese GF once who found this incredible (and no doubt incredibly disgusting)

Davesnave wrote: »

I was passed in Winkleigh yesterday by someone who was driving a (black) Fiat like you used to have, and might still own! The driver was not a Devon maid.....;)

Couldn't have been you by any chance???? I just wondered at the time, those cars being rare here etc.;)

PS. Not lurking, honestly!:o I just came over to see if you were perchance down this way. While you were staying 'dahn sarth,' you were in the county....

Hmmm...Mystery deepens. :cool::D

:hello:Hello to everyone else !

Ours is beige (I know, but it was the best price). I also tend not to drive like a tourist - Exeter to Kingsbridge via Totnes in a thunderstorm in 35 minutes - well it was the middle of the night and I was tired - I thought St A to Kingsbridge 215 miles via the a303 in 3h 15 minutes in the dark and (sometimes very) wet without knowing the road was quite a good average speed too. The car is looking distinctly unhappy today though, with the right back wheel leaning at an odd angle, I had noticed it felt slightly odd when turning left at high speed.