Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

Rhiwfield - I agree it is the best place to get your stuff seen. I think the bay has been tinkering about with the site & some items are not visible in all areas.
Sorry you didn't buy too well at your last auction - that happens.

Rummer I'm selling vintage stuff in the main, stuff I've had in boxes for ages & some other bits & pieces I've picked up along the way. I may actively start looking for stuff to sell if things picked up. But I seem to have loads that needs getting rid of at the moment.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Swap four minis for a bigger'un. Be less trouble

oh yes, i can see me doing that !!:rotfl::rotfl:
even the bl**dy spider living in my van, side mirror is a sitting tenant...:o

Leif

I am convinced those side mirror spiders are factory fitted. Isn't it fun watching them hang on for dear life when you are doing 70mph?

Rummer

alfie_1 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: plus the 6 mini's ...plus the mini im looking after....plus ruby......

still sound sensible ...??:o

Oodles of ponies is an even better idea! I would love to ride again, sadly only a lottery win will make that a reality.

However since you have the space....... own oodles of ponies and just tell me about them

Better_Days

Well guys. As some of you will know we have had a bit of bad luck with our house buying attempts.

We are hoping today is 'third time lucky'.

We have had an offer accepted on a property in a small village, no rural outlook and average sized garden, so not really what we wanted. The house is dated and poorly presented but is a good solid property, has bags of potential and we think we can bring it up to standard for about £25k (windows, boiler, consumer unit, carpets, decorating etc) and still be a bit ahead. It will make a good family house - 4 beds, ensuite, bathroom, good size kitchen and utility - but is currently (like me) knackered! Also not very clean but that is easily sorted.

The plan is to stay there for a year to 18 months and let what ever is happening to the housing market atm sort itself out. There is a real shortage of properties here and I think it will get worse with 'help to buy' being extended in January. Asking prices are edging up and properties that would have been marketed last year at £250k are being listed on RM for £275 - £285k. Plus we are paying well over £700 a month rent and we had only planned on staying in rented for 6 months. Now it likely to be 9 months.

So it is all a 'cunning plan'. Given the number of variables we won't know for a while if it was the right decision. But I am exhausted by the house buying roundabout and need to take a break from it all.

On the plus side there should be enough space for me to have a couple of chickens again, which I have missed while we have been here.

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I think you must be referring to the link Better Days sent about the retuximab trials.

Great to hear your friend was able to retrain and do such worthwhile work. But sad she had to give up her loved job. Interesting she wasn't the first - outbreak?

Sorry, I wasn't paying proper attention Maggie! :o:o

We also had a Head who retired with ME in his 40s. Again, another very talented and diligent person.

However, our workplace was more noted for the Big C; so much in fact that the building was investigated for Radon. It turned out I was the only person who'd been exposed to high amounts of that, so I was sent for a medical, which was so amateurish it was like something from the Dark Ages!

Perhaps the dinners protected those of us who ate them. As I used to say to the kids, "Eat up your green, Kryptonite custard - every mouthful will make you stronger!":rotfl:

Davesnave

Better Days, fingers crossed your third property turns out to be the right one, or at least the right one at this time.

As someone who's sold up and rented, I know what the pressure to buy again feels like. Equally, I know what it's like when the property one wants slips away.....

It's a tricky old business, moving.

I'm minded or my errant parents, who dragged me through more homes than I had hot dinners. Unhappy where they were for the umpteenth time, my Dad found somewhere very different from the sort of place they usually inhabited. Mum wouldn't look at it.
In exasperation, I shouted at her, "Get in the car, you can at least look!" I think she was quite shocked, as I normally kept out of it. Anyway she looked, they both looked again, and then rather grudgingly, they bought it.

They stayed in that house longer than any other! :rotfl:

Better_Days

Davesnave wrote: »

Better Days, fingers crossed your third property turns out to be the right one, or at least the right one at this time.

As someone who's sold up and rented, I know what the pressure to buy again feels like. Equally, I know what it's like when the property one wants slips away.....

It's a tricky old business, moving.

Thanks Dave. We feel like we are on shifting sands atm. We sold our house in January and since then it has been announced that 'help to buy' will be extended and Royal Mail is to be sold off in the Autumn (DH is a postman). Also there are significantly less properties on the market than there were last year, and the two properties that we did find both fell through.

I have secured a fee free 5 year fixed rate mortgage at 2.99% which is valid until early December (my lender no longer offers this deal). We wanted a fixed rate as we are not sure what will happen re DH's work after privatisation. So we felt that we really had to buy soon before the proverbial hits the fan.

I cannot see how there will not be a rise in prices next year - and indeed I think it is what the govt wants coming up to the next election. The economy is bumping along the bottom, but they will say look we have enabled people to buy their own (overvalued) homes (shades of Thatcher and RTB). Sadly, when interest rates rise, so will repossessions, but May 2015 will be long gone by then. And not having an exit strategy for 'help to buy' is madness. :mad: Rant over!!!

rhiwfield

Better Days, think you are right with your analysis, govt does seem to be stoking up a housing boom and what goes up........

Just clearing our utility room as we're having a smart meter installed today. It may be of use, especially as it nets out use and production, though it doesnt show production as I first thought it would

I hadnt realised, until reading a news report today how much of the UK has access to superfast broadband. It's annoying to see all the ads that assume you already have a connection :mad:. But a hint of rurality and it seems that all services degrade, not just broadband. We might get access to superfast broadband in late 2014, atm DD2 has a connection speed 25x faster than ours, but then she lives in Oxford.

Nearest we've come to livestock lately is listing a load of porcelain dolls and horses and a 1940s chad valley lamb :rotfl::rotfl:

At least the garden is productive, potatoes, chard, courgettes and broad beans all on the plate last night

And a thought for those building (especially after CTC's OH narrow escape) please take care on building sites. Last year a lorry fell on the driver delivering goods to a build next door. Two weeks ago a digger tipped over on a build two doors away and the driver had head injuries. Our terrain is steeply sloping but these guys were experienced and should have known better. Trouble is we men can be a bit stupid given machinery, power tools or even a sledgehammer

lostinrates

Yes, our builder had a near, as in less than half a centimetre, miss with a circular saw and hiss kill last week.



And people think people who ride horses are nuts.