Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Has anyone got an opinion ...

You've asked for opinions..... not facts. So here's mine:

Love all this sort of stuff.... weird/wonderful .... however, I am inclined to fall down on the side of the Japanese and say "you know, those people have a long history and long memories and I bet their legend is based on some historical events that they've studied hundreds/thousands of years ago"

So - I'd not be surprised if it did happen.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

... She is a lot fussier than I am, given that all I care about is having the TV in a separate room to the kettle and the washing machine.

... which you can achieve with a one bedroom garden flat - and get her a shed outside with the kettle and washing machine in

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

....oh dear are we mushy?

You're rare evidence that not all men are b******s

PasturesNew

On the radio today they invited callers to phone in if they'd had many/no house moves in their lifetime. They got an email from a woman in Cardiff who said she'd inherited a house from her mother and it had a tenant in it. The tenant had just moved out, to go into a care home...... the tenant's mother had rented the house originally from the LL's grandfather, 84 years ago.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

On the radio today they invited callers to phone in if they'd had many/no house moves in their lifetime. They got an email from a woman in Cardiff who said she'd inherited a house from her mother and it had a tenant in it. The tenant had just moved out, to go into a care home...... the tenant's mother had rented the house originally from the LL's grandfather, 84 years ago.

Next door but one was born in the house and is now in her 80's. She lived there until her marriage and then moved to a cottage next door but one to us on the other side. She and her husband later moved back to her parents cottage. Her grandfather built this row of cottages in the 1890's.

She has written an account of her wartime life describing the trucks lined up and hidden in the lead up to D day. She attended the local school along with OHs friends mum who was also born and brought up and married within the village. Moved about a couple of hundred yards max.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes fc123, the meetup causer.

Good to hear, maybe he can shed some light on things?

In your case, the more different opinions you can get the better as you have a mystery illness.

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Spoke to my mother tonight who is going in for her bile duct op next week and, sadly, she has now gone yellow. Kicked in 3 weeks ago.
She finally got to see a great guy at Kings who diagnosed Crohns and she must have had it for years but her GP just dismissed all her symptoms. Hopefully, the stent will sort out the duct and her digestion will work again but if it doesn't, then I guess it's the beginning of the end as her weight loss is accelerating now.

Her MRI scans showed up all her organs as 100% healthy except for this bile duct and she really thought she had cancer.

LydiaJ wrote: »

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Honestly! How can you possibly interpret "such a great couple, so relaxing and yet enthusing to be around" as something bad for which you need to apologise? Just take the compliment, will you? Smile, and say thank you, and don't say sorry.

OK, I will ...he has just finished out luxury spa bathroom upstairs too.....in preparation for The Xtreme Camping Kitchen Experience yet to come.

In 3 weeks time the old kitchen goes for a month and there is nowhere shabby to put a field kitchen.
So, we will have to put a table in the new luxury lounge with the halogen oven on it and I can't bear to wash up up in the luxury shower room......so we'll use paper plates as much as poss and have to take a washing up bowl to the luxury spa style bathroom.:(

chewmylegoff wrote: »

The house would be a compromise for us both. I think we both thought that our budget would be big enough to just waltz up, click our fingers and the perfect house would be presented to us. I think it took her a bit longer to realise that we have to compromise otherwise we will still be looking in a year. If we do get it, once all the work has been done it should 'tick' about 80-90% of the 'boxes' I think. She is a lot fussier than I am, given that all I care about is having the TV in a separate room to the kettle and the washing machine.

We would definitely be renting in overlap with the renovation which would mean another move as we are too far away to keep an eye on it.

Well, nothing is ever perfect and whatever the budget, there is always something a little bit more perfect, a little bit more suitable, a bit better location for just a little bit more......

I did like that white tower one.

Allow for adding 25% more time to the builders time quote

Yorkie1

A member of our church is probably approaching 90. He's lived in the same terraced house for all of his life - with his sister, who sadly died a few years ago.

On a separate theme, I'm off down to that there Hertfordshire tomorrow, to visit parents. My brother and his family are coming across from Belgium on a whistle-stop tour of my brother's friends and family, and I shall get to meet my 5-month old niece for the first time!

Yorkie1

Good luck for your mum, fc123.

vivatifosi

Yorkie1 wrote: »

A member of our church is probably approaching 90. He's lived in the same terraced house for all of his life - with his sister, who sadly died a few years ago.

On a separate theme, I'm off down to that there Hertfordshire tomorrow, to visit parents. My brother and his family are coming across from Belgium on a whistle-stop tour of my brother's friends and family, and I shall get to meet my 5-month old niece for the first time!

I shall wave as you drive past. Have fun!

fc123

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Good luck for your mum, fc123.

Cheers...we aren't being to...um....'maudlin' about it as it's in the lap of the gods really.....or the hands of the surgeon.

Had a long chat with her tonight and she isn't good at being ill as she has never really had any health issues all her life apart from Colitus which would come and go.

We are all taking the view that we will wait and see if the op sorts it out. If it works, then she' got another decade at least.