Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Westy pic please.


Here's the reckless spend

Not the best angle, but worryingly, the tidiest background!

It's enormous!

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got that on. He does annoy me due to his voice/tone of voice and the programme's perpetual repeating of the basic facts without really achieving much. Whole programme could be chopped down to just 5 minutes of relevant information.

HUTH annoys for the same reason. The way they summarise the purchase when they go back to revisit the property, you may as well start watching half way through.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

It's enormous!

I was standing really close to it. Is this like when you decided lake cake was about ten acres because of some dodgey Pythagoras from an oak tree in the distance

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

Mine mostly chew each other in a friendly fashion! Ruby nearly 7 and Heidi, 4 on Monday, are particularly unaware that they are actually grown up now.

Dog dog checks toys all over for their squeakers. Sometimes she does the same with kiwi, same very organised methodical approach. He doesn't seem to mind. Big dog just likes food.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Hasn't affected the butcher though - there's usually a queue out of the door in August!

In the right areas, butchers are "protected" to some degree because visitors/holidaymakers are more likely to follow all that stuff they see on the telly about using a good local butcher ... and when they're at home the butcher's closed before they've finished work (or run out) .... so it feels like a proper treat/holiday to have bought local sausages

lostinrates

I've been sent some Unworked on sounds from gig on Friday, recorded live, haven't listened to it myself yet. Any one interested I might send a link

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Here's the reckless spend

Nice looking beast there!! Very gnarly.

There are some trees I'd like in my garden. To buy them about 8-12' high would cost £300-600 each ... but I've spotted them in pots at 10" for £5. I know how fast they grow .... and know that within 5 years they'll look respectable and might be 4-5'

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

HUTH annoys for the same reason. The way they summarise the purchase when they go back to revisit the property, you may as well start watching half way through.

They also gloss over the costs.
So many are breaking even/making a loss if you factor in just small solicitor bills, stamp duty and small selling fees for EAs and a second solicitor bill. Never mind, if they've got a mortgage, any costs for surveys/setup fees etc.

They really do misrepresent profit/loss on there. Also, if somebody's just done the house for a solid year and borrowed £200k for a whole year then that has to be £10k for his labour (cheap/mates rates value) and £6k for interest.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I was standing really close to it. Is this like when you decided lake cake was about ten acres because of some dodgey Pythagoras from an oak tree in the distance

So how tall? Tall enough for fir to lean out of the study window and pick a fresh olive?

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

They also gloss over the costs.
So many are breaking even/making a loss if you factor in just small solicitor bills, stamp duty and small selling fees for EAs and a second solicitor bill. Never mind, if they've got a mortgage, any costs for surveys/setup fees etc.

They really do misrepresent profit/loss on there. Also, if somebody's just done the house for a solid year and borrowed £200k for a whole year then that has to be £10k for his labour (cheap/mates rates value) and £6k for interest.

Agreed. One day this week, someone bought a pub that they were converting into a house, they reckoned on spending less than I'm spending on my downstairs loo to do the kitchen, bathroom, move some load bearing walls around and add an en-suite.