Breaking Through, Travelling On

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Sorry to hear about the problems with your French apartment. I hope you'll be able to sort something out with them that doesn't involve a lot of further expense and red tape. I always envied people who took the plunge to invest in property abroad but after your problems and those of friends who bought in Bulgaria a few years ago (when it was the place to buy) I think I'm pleased about my procrastination at the time.:o


The friends I mentioned planned to move to Bulgaria to live in their early retirement and the area was being hyped up as the next big thing. Unbelievably cheap property in a very upcoming region. It was a potential holiday resort as well but financial problems meant the planned airstrip never materialised and, being a long way from anywhere, the tourist boom never happened. Very few other Brits moved into the area either. They did live there for a couple of years but found life there so problematic (the husband having ongoing health issues that involved 6-monthly lengthy check-ups and treatment in UK), the language problems and the fact that the locals resented the Brits, they sold up (at a massive loss) and came back home.

Karmacat

Thanks CBC - I wouldn't wish this on anyone, but I'm sort of glad to know I'm not the only one, or even the leaseback people (i.e. like me) aren't the only ones. This thing seemed sensible at the time - government backed, a lowish rate of return (4%), in the most desirable area of the French Alps, it didn't seem like it would be problematic. But it is! If I'd stuck to paying down the mortgage, my life would be a *lot* simpler right now!

In faffing about last night when my anti-virus went kablooey, I've also managed to bollix Rapport from Trusteer, though it *says* its running - the little icons aren't there, though, so I don't want to open any of the finance accounts until its fixed. Sort of a cascade of problems! Still in the automated email stage of appealing to them for help, they're telling me to things I've already done twice, I'll contact them again and see if I get somewhere.

earthgirl

Karma it sound like everything's happening at once, and you are keeping so upbeat!

Karmacat

earthgirl wrote: »

Karma it sound like everything's happening at once, and you are keeping so upbeat!

Sort of have to, to be honest, earthgirl! I had to cancel my trip to London today to see the Japanese prints at the British Museum, my sister's gone on her own

So today, it's about following up on the Trusteer Rapport situation for a while, as the Tech threads on here seem to say it's unnecessary anyway, I might not follow that through if it doesn't work today.

Then I have to work on translating those emails that came in on Monday

And then have a shower, which I didn't have the energy for yesterday. Not a bowl of cherries this week, not at all. More like a bowl of cherry stones.

[Deleted User]

Sorry you missed out on the London trip. The British Museum visit sounds good. I love the BM, my favourite of all the major UK museums:T


I was once Youth Hostelling with a friend in the south west of England in my student days and, quite by chance, we came across the American Museum outside Bath. I loved that one too, especially all the wonderful quilts. I recommended it to my parents who were visiting that area a couple of years later but they weren't all that impressed by it. I suppose we all have different tastes;)


It's very wet and windy here today, the rain didn't let up all night and it's still beating on the back of the house. At least my runner beans will be happy:j, they're very thirsty plants and we spend ages watering them every summer:eek:.

Karmacat

Thanks CBC, appreciated

I think I went to the American Museum when I was little - we had a caravan holiday somewhere in Somerset, and went there one day when it was pouring lovely. I love quilting and textile work, it's fascinating, I'm glad you enjoy it too

I finally forced myself to answer the detailed Rapport email, and it was *very* easy , only about ten minutes ago or so, so I can't yet make myself start to translate the French stuff. I haven't been over the doorstep in days, so I might just walk to the other end of my rec. ground and see what cherries are left on the trees. Something very small, and very nice to do


ETA: NET WORTH. Worked it out yesterday (cos I opened the post within a few days of it arriving!) and it's gone up again ... **frowns nervously** by, erm, £2282... and I confess that almost exactly half of this, £1182, is because I forgot one particular ISA hadn't been transferred from Nationwide The entries I haven't updated this week were updated last month, so pretty current - I can't do anything else till I feel the Trusteer thing is safely resolved.

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Suffolk_lass

Real cherries? or the "life is not a bowl" kind? I'm slightly lost in metaphors! There were cherries on the ground on the footpath under the underpass by the main road here, when I drove back from a neighbouring town - so still plenty around.

Karmacat

Oh! Real Yes, I've collected 3 sandwich boxes of cherries the ones I picked today were coming free from their stones, the stones stayed on the tree, but there's still a *lot* of green cherries to ripen. Not sure how many of them will, and of course these are just the ones I can reach. Cherry trees are biiiiiiiiiiigggggggggg.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, cherries! :j :j

Sounds like you've got quite a bit on your plate at the minute lass. Take care. Hope those real cherries beget metaphorical cherries too :j

EatingTheElephant

Enjoy the cherries and great news about the net worth increase too.