Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am food fail. I have the usual uninspired food .... or I can go to Lidl and buy some frozen chips .... it's cold/dark/windy out there.... and if I go to Lidl I'd no doubt "treat" myself to a totally unnecessary 3-pack of individual cheesecakes....

So ... find uninspired food in cupboards and just make something that's edible? Or, go out, to Lidl, get frozen chips and come back to serve those with some instant curry sauce.

Although, actually, I have spuds.... I could make myself some chips .... that'd be the best way forward. Need to use up the spuds in the next week ....

Need to do the washing up first though ... run out of plates
At least that will warm my frozen hands up though.

Homemade oven-baked chips and curry sauce it is then...

We're boring today....I'm making them a stir fry. Lots of foody days coming up, eating. Just wanted to give something healthy. Have been met with two really slightly reigned smiles to the news they are having stor fry supper.

Nikkster

Its curry night chez nikkster

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

http://www.purrfectpets.org.uk/images/products/cats/cat%20drinking%20fountain.jpg

That cat looks photoshopped onto the bowl.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Its curry night chez nikkster

Takeaway, supermarket sold in a takeaway bag style, or homemade?

PasturesNew

I'd opened the bag of spuds I bought the other day and it was in the drawer.... I always use spuds in reverse size order, thus ensuring that if I did decide to do baked spuds at any time I'd always be left with the biggest in the bag available.... so I reached my hand in to get out the smallest spuds.... groping round with my fingers for any last small spud.... and I found one.... shame it was a rotten one and my finger went into it and a huge pong wafted up. Hate it when that happens.

silvercar

Hugs to viva, hope the results are OK.

DS2 home and requested chilli con carne. Odd in that I didn't even know he liked it. Task one of his is to get on the scales and check he hasn't lost weight since the beginning of term.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

I totally concur with all that, except I don't understand the final sentence: "Just don't exchange contracts until the house is actually empty!!"

I don't understand why not? Clearly, completion will only be with vacant possession, which it is the landlord's responsibility to obtain. So, there could be a bit of trouble if the tenants don't move out on time, but eventually the LL will turf them out, and completion can take place.

Can someone explain where my thinking is incorrect, please?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Take a trip to the house buying board. There are often stories of exchanged properties where the vacant possession goes wrong. Say for example that they exchange and then the tenant refuses to leave, while the liability is with the selling party, it also impacts on the buying party if they are packed up, ready to leave and have given notice that they are quitting their own place.

What viva said. PN will have to give notice on her own tenancy, so she'll want to be completely sure that the place she's moving to will actually be available.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember here there used to be a tenant who secretly bought their house from the LL, without telling the agent. And they emptied the house so the agent could do the check out procedure..... then brought everything back inside again from the van up the road. They'd owned it for some days and the agent never knew and the LL never had to pay a commission for finding the buyer.

Was there a clause in the letting contract that made all that secrecy necessary? Surely the letting agent had already had their fee for finding a tenant, and if the landlord and tenant fixed up a sale between them because they already had contact with each other, then I don't see that that constitutes the letting agent "finding" the buyer. Or is that hopelessly naive of me?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd need to be out of here fully, so I can come back here to do the cleaning. That's the trouble with being alone and moving, you have to be in som many places at one time if you try to do it all on one day.

You have to be: advising the removals men, checking all the final checks/packing the last items, checking what the removals men are up to .... then, you need to be ahead of them in the van and at the EA picking up the keys and at the new place before them AND still back at the old place cleaning....

With no furniture my removals is a 2 hour timeslot to arrive, pack up, drive, unpack everything. I've no furniture to speak of, just one sofa, one washing machine and a fridge.

But at least you have only a small amount of possessions to move, and no children to control while they try to "help" you.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

A lot of the last 5 years PN's been looking after elderly, infirm and dying parents, and not really been in a position to look for or buy a house, I think, Gen?

She's talked about intending to do so for quite a bit of that time, but not that she was actually doing it.

What NDG said.

Nikkster wrote: »

Also, buying a house is a big commitment for anyone. I do think it feels disproportionately heavy when you are doing it solo.

What Nikkster said.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Takeaway, supermarket sold in a takeaway bag style, or homemade?

Not really any of the above!

Picked up a couple of reduced supermarket curries to which I added some also supermarket chicken samosas and some reduced naan which I already had in the freezer. Made up some tomato/cucumber/ onion/ yoghurt to go with it. That's another 3 meals sorted for this week

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Hugs to viva, hope the results are OK.

DS2 home and requested chilli con carne. Odd in that I didn't even know he liked it. Task one of his is to get on the scales and check he hasn't lost weight since the beginning of term.

My perfect chilli would be served with all of: tortilla chips, rice, garlic bread, chips, grated cheese

I've always hated having to choose which one in pub menus.

My oven chips are taking way too long....... it's been 1 hour 5 minutes since I thought of it - could have driven to Lidl, come back and baked frozen oven chips by now...