Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother has had two knee replacements, and they improved her life no end. Its amazing what removal of pain can do for the spirits. .

Indeed. My mum had one hip replaced, and my dad has had both knees, and it is amazing what a difference it makes. My parents both thought my mum's hip replacement literally saved her life. They both remember when they were younger and these things weren't available, various old people would get so much pain from arthritic hips that they became bedridden, and then usually died within a year or two from a thrombosis if not from anything else. They thought Mum would have been like that.

onlyluci

nice thread ) thank you everyone

Generali

Well we looked at the house and it's lovely. We're not going to be in a position to buy until early next year so we'll most likely miss out but if we do get it the plan is:

1. Buy for say $680k
2. Improve access to land at the bottom via the back fence and sell for $380k (very achievable)
3. Add a parents' retreat upstairs on the main house: bedroom, bathroom and reading room and generally tidy up downstairs. Total cost $100k-ish.

End up with a house worth $750-800k that's cost us a net $400k.

Fire risk in the area is very high BTW. There's plenty you can do to mitigate the risk though.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Well we looked at the house and it's lovely. We're not going to be in a position to buy until early next year so we'll most likely miss out but if we do get it the plan is:

1. Buy for say $680k
2. Improve access to land at the bottom via the back fence and sell for $380k (very achievable)
3. Add a parents' retreat upstairs on the main house: bedroom, bathroom and reading room and generally tidy up downstairs. Total cost $100k-ish.

End up with a house worth $750-800k that's cost us a net $400k.

Fire risk in the area is very high BTW. There's plenty you can do to mitigate the risk though.

Sounds brilliant...except are you nuts :eek:

PasturesNew

Clocks go back tonight - but get up at the usual time so you've got an extra hour tying anything down so it doesn't flap about when the storm hits!

I was due to be on the roads Monday, I'll delay it until Tuesday.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

There's plenty you can do to mitigate the risk though.

Yeah, my top tip would be: choose a different one/area..... maybe even look at house boats.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah, my top tip would be: choose a different one/area..... maybe even look at house boats.

I'm not sure that living in an all wood structure is the best place to be in a bush fire!

The thing is, we'd be living on the edge of a town so the firies would be doing their best to protect it. Also, a couple of hundred homes were lost in the Blue Mountains but thousands weren't.

The worst thing about living there would be that it would be spider-tastic.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Sounds brilliant...except are you nuts :eek:

Selling the land would be simple and changing access would really be a case of knocking a couple of trees over and (preferably) getting permission from the local government to gain access which is unlikely to be a problem. Otherwise there's another access point which I'd own which would take a long weekend to clear for use.

Putting another floor on is common over here so plenty of builders do it. If you use a local builder then they also know what will and won't get past council for DA (our planning permission).

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, lamb is baby sheep - up to a year old; mutton is once it's a full adult sheep.

The names indicate age.

First they are lambs, then they are sheep, then they are mutton.

I thought the animal/meat division dates from the Normans. The Normans ate the meat which is why meat has French names, but the locals tended the animals which is why they have clipped Olde English names.

I threw some species names at my students and was surprised at what they knew ( and didn't know).
Sus scrofa
Oves aries
Gallus gallus
Bos taurus
Ursus arctos
Canis lupus
Saccharomyces carlsbergensis
Zea mays

Without google, how many look familiar enough to guess the common names?

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I thought the animal/meat division dates from the Normans. The Normans ate the meat which is why meat has French names, but the locals tended the animals which is why they have clipped Olde English names.

I threw some species names at my students and was surprised at what they knew ( and didn't know).
Sus scrofa - dodgy pig
Oves aries - Ram eggs
Gallus gallus - French people
Bos taurus - Head Bull
Ursus arctos - made up
Canis lupus - cross between a wolf and a small yellow bird
Saccharomyces carlsbergensis - probably the best animal in the world
Zea mays - another one you made up

Without google, how many look familiar enough to guess the common names?

Do a hard one.