Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe, but 300 miles away.

Well that's a different matter entirely. For me it would be 10,000 miles away/£1000!

NDG might have an idea or perhaps Vivatifosi. I know that stuff can be moved between libraries within a county as I've had it done. Can stuff (records) be moved intercounty?

Presumably once you've bought your house, you'll be viewed in an entirely different way by the benefits bods. Could your extremely low self employed income could be topped up as a result? Just wondering.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I know that stuff can be moved between libraries within a county as I've had it done. Can stuff (records) be moved intercounty?

It's pricey moving one simple book between libraries in the same county!

The county where I was born/brought up and where most maternal family events occurred has a huge archive and newspaper archives going back forever. However, between the librarians and the man who wrote the local history columns in the newspaper for years they're holding it all entirely to ransom - and you have to go into the Central Library to paw through it all. One'd need to live locally for at least 1-2 years and to have all day available to go through it all.

Other records can be obtained, but there's a lot of gaps and a lot of little "private collections". In some counties you can get all you want online as there was a Volunteer/Free group of people who have compiled it over the decades... in "my county" it's all been kept locked up and the Family History Society sell you various CDs....but even so a lot's still on microfiche.

If I ever win the lottery, the big one (even though I don't even buy a ticket), say £5million ... I'd actually employ a full-time researcher to just do this stuff for me.... seriously.

I wish all original certificates were available, scanned, online, for a fee of (say) £1 - and not having to send off for them at £10 to get a paper copy in your hand. At £1 more people'd be prepared to pay just to see instantly. At £10 nobody does unless it's their mad obsession and they HAVE to have it.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Presumably ....

I'll look at getting a proper job

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

... change rent day ... to 28th ...

Ah, but maybe she didn't mention the month. Maybe that's it. Rent day is now the 28th ... once a year.

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

No deposit held.

No HB. I know it's stressful when you get a new job so had to find 6 weeks, although we gave them that in arrears, iyswim to make it easier. I think they bought a puppy with the rent, looking at the (open) facebook profile.

H offered to put the extra two weeks into installments by upping the montht rent by £20 even, iwswim. I need to write down what we've had, I think maybe they didn't even pay Feb.

Get rid as soon as you can, they sound like they're just going to rip the p!ss from here on in. As a tenant I think if you pay your rent you should be left alone and should never hear from your landlord, but if you don't pay your rent then you can't really complain when you get turfed out as soon as the law allows.

PasturesNew

Oh and .. by the way ... that puppy? That'll be p155ing on your floors, chewing doors and skirtings..... it'll be Poo City within 3 months.

Spirit_2

Barn Owl Update

We named him Owlbert.:o

DD saw him at about 6am this morning as he had hopped down into the lower meshed area of the bunny hutch, clung to the mesh a little then hopped back up to his den. So his claw was fine.

OH went to check on him about 10.am and concluded he looked OK, took some photos then opened the hutch doors ...10 seconds later Owlbert swooped down and up and away.

Very happy with this.:)

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

I once had to explain superpredators to a class and they immediately thought of all the big scary ones like polar bears and tigers. They never think of harmless ones like owls.

I thought last night that perhaps this owl had been in pursuit of my field mouse family that are living under the lid of the compost dalek that was abandoned on the veg patch. They have made a round ball of a nest.

I wanted neither to be lost though.

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

I thought last night that perhaps this owl had been in pursuit of my field mouse family that are living under the lid of the compost dalek that was abandoned on the veg patch. They have made a round ball of a nest.

I wanted neither to be lost though.

Bit of a conundrum there! Does one family live as the other starves?

Yorkie1

Doozergirl wrote: »

I need to write down what we've had...

If you go down the s.8 eviction route, you'd need to have a schedule of payments, so best to get that sorted out first.

You can issue a s.8 as soon as two months' rent is unpaid (i.e. immediately after a second failure to pay - you don't need to wait 2 months). However, it's a little complicated with the reference to 6 weeks and 10 weeks. Some of the people on the HBR board are quite good at helping out with technicalities, if you're not a member of a LL's association.

Don't forget that if they bring the amount owed down to under 2 months' worth by the time of the hearing, you'll lose the case.

If you are in a position where a s.21 can be issued, that's often suggested as a parallel route so that it's still there as a back-up if the s.8 fails.