Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

Very true - £10 is a lot. It's gone up since I was doing FH research years ago, and even then it felt pricey.

Spirit wrote: »

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.:)

:T:T

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

... 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.... opened the hutch doors ...10 seconds later ...up and away.

Very happy with this.:)

Fab news
Best result.... no worrying, no calling round .... all sorted

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Court records should be available for free (i.e. paid for by the taxpayer) IMHO as part of the justice being seen to be done principle.

Apparently to find out what info the police hold about oneself requires a 10 foi request which seems a little rich to me.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Apparently to find out what info the police hold about oneself requires a 10 foi request which seems a little rich to me.

I don't really understand what that means.

What goes on in court is all open I think, except in case where openness shouldn't happen like parts of rape cases. Certainly I've turned up to watch a trial and an appeal.

PasturesNew

Just found a handy site that tells you the date people were buried... so I looked up two I "knew" (knew, but not really the dates).... and was surprised to discover that it was exactly 23 years ago today that I was at my GMs funeral.

Of course, having looked further, the records only contain some burials .... specifically three locations in the town... so I was unable to "idly search randomly" for others as I think most were buried in the parish churches/other.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you're unclear and don't have full records of what went on, there's no hope in hell that somebody who [a] uses Facebook buys puppies with "R" money and [c] posts pictures of that on Facebook (with a poshphone?) ... is going to have a clue what's what.

This made me belly laugh!

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Is it one of those Lycra jellyfish suits? It's a bit warm up there for a wetsuit!

Nope, full on and very garish wetsuit. Apparently the tiger sharks like eating the more sedate ones.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe, but 300 miles away.

While I could "just pay £10 for a month's unlimited viewing" of these records... (the papers), you can end up doing that repeatedly. £10 to look at this, £50 for that, £30 for a CD,£40 for another, £20 for a directory, £100 for another membership ..... and, along the way "get that certificate to check, £10" ... and so on .. and before you know it you're £1k down and just accumulating data, not information ... because the more you have, the more avenues open up - each of which has a gatekeeper that requires their palm crossing with silver.

Pastures, I've copied the details and will see if I can get you a copy of the article next week. I have access to the old newspaper archives through work.

Do you have a decent library near your new house?

ETA: you can get a lot of certificates through the library versions of Ancestry and Find My Past.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

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.

Not without filling in forms that she doesn't want to have to deal with. At least, that's what I think I remember PN saying last time the issue was raised.

Spirit wrote: »

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.:)

Well done Owlbert. :j:j:j:j:j

Yorkie1 wrote: »

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.

Sounds like good advice. How do they pay - direct into your account? If so, trawl through your statements finding all the payments they've made since the start of the tenancy, with dates. How long have they been living there? Did they always pay on time up until January?

The HBSR board people will give you excellent advice, but don't expect sympathy from them. They are generally very much along the lines of "tenants behaving badly is part of the business, so stop moaning and deal with it".

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

NDG...? Any thoughts on how to get the court records? Presumably these things are online these days.

Newspaper records are. Some court records are, but a million miles away from comprehensive.

Law reports are online, but are usually fairly expensive subscription databases, and they don't record cases for factual research, but for legal ones and precedents.

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.

In the long run, however, owls and mice are not always living in constant harmony.