Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

...to help the more stupid readers ...

Cheers
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Masomnia

It's like reading the script for an episode of House Gen. Wishing you all the best.

My great uncle still goes on about how wonderful his grammar school was 60 years later. He definitely would have been in t' mill at 15 were it not for the grammar system; his parents were not happy about it and were very reluctant to send him.

Still times have changed and I'm not sure the old system would work now.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Sure, Generali.

Now onto other issues... bike riding. I have all these gear things, so I was wondering precisely which of them I'm supposed to be using while going up a short but very steep incline.

I have that trouble.... it seems if I'm riding along and it goes up a slope and I try to change gears, by the time it's changed my bike's ground to a halt.

I really only wanted the standard 3 gears and a flicker on the handlebar.... got 21 shimanos .... which is furren for "nightmare"

tomterm8

Generali wrote: »

My thought is that if the PET scan shows nothing and the grand biopsy(?) shows nothing then the options are that there could be something very rare or very odd going on. Either way, I am very unlikely to get either by definition.

Do you disagree?

Certainly yes, a lymphoma is Australia's second most popular cancer. They love a good old skin cancer but if they can't have one of those then we have a lymphoma.

Is it likely for me to have something unlikely? It seems.....unlikely.

My feeling is that there's a point that you should listen to the experts. You're doing the right thing, getting the right advice, and should continue doing what you're doing.

My feeling is that a grand biopsy is always far more accurate than a needle biopsy. So, if I had to go with one or the other I know which one I'd believe.

But... not an expert, and you're doing the right thing going to one

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've heard employers like employees who have mortgages as they know they "own" them.....
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I've never thought like that! Nor do I care if they are married or have children as far as their long-term employability is concerned. people's situations are so much more fluid than 30 years ago, I think it's all an out-dated concept now.

michaels

tomterm8 wrote: »

Sure, Generali.

Now onto other issues... bike riding. I have all these gear things, so I was wondering precisely which of them I'm supposed to be using while going up a short but very steep incline.

Now that's an easy one, you choose the gear that is easiest to pedal and if that is hard work you get off and walk. Anything with the word moderate let alone steep means get off and walk.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Right, help me decide.... in the next hour or so. Solicitors....

£675+ VAT for the EA suggested solicitor, with whom they have "a special relationship", hinting that they can sometimes chase/nudge it because of that

£600+VAT for a local solicitor and poo--poo the idea that the EA's "relationship" amounts to anything more than them getting a backhander.

And ..... the big one: should I bother getting searches done? I'll get the Chancel search as I'm within half a mile of a huge/ancient priory .... and it's about £10... but what about environmental/local searches/water?

I never trust an estate agent.

Not sure about the other questions... you can do a fairly comprehensive check on flooding through the environment agencies website.

EDIT: one thing I'd do is open a manhole cover and have a look at the drains. Check whether the drains are pitch-fibre pipes https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pitch+fibre+pipe&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Xr4-U__UCOWO7AbJ14DYCw&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1093&bih=515. If they are figure on it costing a few grand at some stage to replace them.

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

Right, help me decide.... in the next hour or so. Solicitors....

£675+ VAT for the EA suggested solicitor, with whom they have "a special relationship", hinting that they can sometimes chase/nudge it because of that

£600+VAT for a local solicitor and poo--poo the idea that the EA's "relationship" amounts to anything more than them getting a backhander.

And ..... the big one: should I bother getting searches done? I'll get the Chancel search as I'm within half a mile of a huge/ancient priory .... and it's about £10... but what about environmental/local searches/water?

"Special relationship" means backhander but it may also mean them sharing more information than you would choose with the EA - we were offered that choice and went with the independent one.
Searches - we had them all done (except chancel, I opted out of that one). Water one was totally useless as it said we are close to water and thus more likely to flood. Two problems with that one - the nearest water is a canal. Not known for their flooding. There is a river, but we have the M25 between us and it, and the M25 is a lot lower so it would have to flood first before we got wet. You can look up your maps on the EA website (I think) anyway.
A good solicitor will tell you if there is anything dodgy or likely to be from the searches.
In terms of the overall cost of the purchase, and since you are presumably planning to stay there for a while, the costs of the searches are less important.
Just my opinion!

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

EDIT: one thing I'd do is open a manhole cover and have a look at the drains. Check whether the drains are pitch-fibre pipes https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pitch+fibre+pipe&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Xr4-U__UCOWO7AbJ14DYCw&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1093&bih=515. If they are figure on it costing a few grand at some stage to replace them.

It's quite a newish build.... 4 years ago it was a site.

PasturesNew

hjd wrote: »

"Special relationship" means backhander but it may also mean them sharing more information than you would choose with the EA - we were offered that choice and went with the independent one.
Searches - we had them all done (except chancel, I opted out of that one). Water one was totally useless as it said we are close to water and thus more likely to flood. Two problems with that one - the nearest water is a canal. Not known for their flooding. There is a river, but we have the M25 between us and it, and the M25 is a lot lower so it would have to flood first before we got wet. You can look up your maps on the EA website (I think) anyway.
A good solicitor will tell you if there is anything dodgy or likely to be from the searches.
In terms of the overall cost of the purchase, and since you are presumably planning to stay there for a while, the costs of the searches are less important.
Just my opinion!

I've checked for flooding - it's a major risk area, but even at peak, peak, disaster levels it's not light blue (or underwater dark blue) on the env-ag maps.

I've googled for planning and there's nothing noticeable. I believe next door's big bungalow plot might be bought at some point for some further development just because it's a big plot and the current structure there's a bit shabby/dated.

Contamination - as it's quite newly built that'd have had to have been sorted/covered by the initial developers to get the FPP.

We're talking £250 for all searches, to put a sum on it.