Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, yes, but its not very charming to look at:o

True. Box it in?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Pray .... !!!!!! is going on here??
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/10k/9552/26838489/9552_100501001673_IMG_06_0001_max_620x414.jpg

I like it...for someone else's house. What's over the window on the right? Little paper lantern chain? Bobbles? I don't but I might like that especially. If I knew what it was.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I like it...for someone else's house. What's over the window on the right? Little paper lantern chain? Bobbles? I don't but I might like that especially. If I knew what it was.

Looks like some flower-style Xmas lights.

That particular house is on the main/fast road, in a row of houses with nothing around them but some shabby industrial estate behind .... way out of the small, grimy local village and quite remote (would need a car for everything).

It's even called Gore Road http://goo.gl/maps/qjhfL

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Where can I borrow money from if I don't have a job?

We are all nice, but not that nice, well certainly not to the tune of 15k.

If you really wanted to borrow money, you could take any crappy job that comes along and get a mortgage for 15k. Or a bank loan, or peer-to-peer lending like zopla. Or wonga!

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I've just found pink stuff made more than wash on its own.
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When my DD hangs washing out it is often a line of entirely pink or close hues things.

silvercar

A friend had a laundry chute put in on the house they built. She was very excited, but disappointed. The laundry goes down the chute OK, but it still has to dealt with where it lands.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Genius.


Could see if sibling would lend me the money ...... at a push. She's got loads/doesn't need or use it and knows I'd be good for it.

Trouble is .... once you start thinking about borrowing, the amount sneaks up ....

If it is the difference between getting settled and not getting settled then asking your nearest and dearest is a wise option.

We were very glad we were asked if we could help a relative recently, as we were concerned that they would miss the housing boat. We felt trusted and are happy to help.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Two things:
1] What if it's a sinking ship, not a housing boat
2] I am likely to make a poor decision and live to regret it.

So far I've bought three places in my life - each a disaster..... all for fear of missing a boat.

a] mobile home - awful site owner, crazy over-applied rules and threats
b] SO bedsit - 7 years in and I bought myself out of 5% NE
c] Wreck of a place, got heating put in, DG throughout, plastering.... then market collapsed in IT/project management and there was no more contracting .... so had to "sit in" for 6 years in an unfinished house, without any money or life, until I flogged it.

So you need to buy somewhere that you will be happy living in, then it doesn't matter if it is a sinking ship or a sailing boat. As long as you are happy floating on the raft you don't need to worry.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's enough tied up in a s0ddin' trust fund! Can't get that though.

You've got a trust fund? How posh is that? No-one in my family has ever had one of those.

POSH ALERT!

Spirit_2

Tonights dinner is turning out to be a bit of a marathon.

I made steak and kidney pudding, had pre cooked the filling.
There was too much of it for the 1 1/2 pint basin it had to go in. So I overfilled it (why?) and have made an overflowing mess when I put the lid of the basin on.

Then I put it on to steam. As a I WAH today we can have a dinner that takes two hours to steam:). Except two hours has been and gone and pudding is not cooked and potatoes are rock solid.

Then I remembered DD turned the cooker down to bake a birthday cake at the weekend. Turned it back up, then OH gets back from dog walking and tells me that he has seen a friendly and unfamiliar cat in the woods. So we all put our coats on and go out into the rain in search of a possibly lost/dumped moggy.

Back in, no sign of cat, pots just saved from boiling dry, pudding still not cooked.

DD is having shop bought Pizza, it is starting to sound appetizing.

And I still have a paper to finish tonight as only half of the required contributors have contributed:(