Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

azzabazza wrote: »

Oh my goodness, what a huge amount of money. I would expect luxury for that amount of rent!

Location, location, location....and they haven't let it yet!

We've never 'looked back' at our old houses, if you get what I mean. We were shocked to visit our last one a couple of years ago, to find no changes whatsoever had been made inside. The garden was a different story. :eek:

In a sense, we looked at the house we lived in before that one every day of the week.....well, it was at the end of the garden! :rotfl:However, we just didn't 'see' it. Once we close the door on a place, that's it....move on.

Ah....not quite true. I have put Rightmove links to some of my childhood houses on here! :o:o

phoebe1989seb

Pretty house Alfie, but such an awful shame they've ripped out all the character inside so that it now resembles a cheaply thrown up new build :mad:

Regarding our previous houses, I posted recently about what the new owners did with their chainsaw to the garden of our last-but-one house, but otoh there's a house we sold way back (our first house that we moved to from our flat when DS was six weeks old - he's now 25) and all those years on they still have the same curtains and paint (a distinctive pink and blue scheme popular in the early nineties ) in the front reception room When our former family home came up for sale in 2012 they had hardly touched a thing since we sold in 2007 - except putting in an Aga and repainting a couple of rooms.

Unfortunately I can't stop myself from scouring RM for our old houses, lol, and ones that *got away* which often results in seeing stuff I wish I hadn't - such as the house we viewed in the early noughties when it was on for £225,000 (still have the old printed EA details) which was easily affordable then and is currently for sale at £950,000 :eek:

Have a good day all - I'm heading off to strip more woodchip and take up a delightful pink carpet in the snug

choille

The cottage that I lived in for 17 years they did something similar as what's happened to Alfie, but they didn't get folks staying for long as it was haunted & in the middle of no where, but I'd kinda got used to all the noises & creaks & odd happenings. & I liked living a mile up a muddy, rutted track that was fine on a M/C but not really for a normal car.

Times move on but I still it in many ways as it was such a big part of my life.

I'm off for a baff! 2nd one this year, goodness....I'll melt!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

WOW.. in what way was it haunted Choille.


I really hope that our ranch isn't haunted, otherwise I will have the hee-bee-gee-bees, and will sleep in the caravan lol..

alfie_1

evening all .......... i thought my last house was haunted [although i prefer the title "shared living";) ]. in my bedroom i often heard voices in what sounded like a chatty conversation. id be sat up in bed reading [by candlelight :rotfl:] and often get up to check it wasnt people outside in the woods.... couldnt define words but thats what it sounded like. i didnt mind as i felt "they" loved the house too and just hadnt left re the smoking fartarsing.... what bugs me is they keep saying the burden to the NHS... BUT its not smokers that are spewing up on a night out [council costs clean up] its not smokers beating the carp out of each other on a night out [policing costs] and its not smokers taking up half the a&e on a weekend abusing nurses and doctors..... OH let me think..... BOOZE :mad: so why arent they putting blank labels on bottles of booze. and banning having booze in the street etc. too much revenue..

choille

It had been bombed in the ww11 & the woman of the house was found lying a good distance away in the field dead. Her son was okay as he'd been out feeding his rabbits with a lamp- that's what attracted the bomber as he'd been looking for a local RAF base& spied the barns at the back & seen the light of the lamp. The husband was injured & was killed in 1953 by lightening that struck him dead - he had got shrapnel in his head & they reckon that's what killed him.
The house had been 2 storey, but was rebuilt after the war as a single storey & some nights I just had to get out - like from no where the feeling would come to get outside quick. You could hear noises upstairs of a person walking backwards & forwards sometimes. No one liked staying there on their own. Even my big brother got really scared one night when he was up feeding my cats when I was away.
But I got used to it & felt welcome until the landlord married & his wife had big ideas for big rents & harrassed me out. It was a horrid time & I was really stressed with some of the tricks that were done - it was really remote so no one was able see what was going on.

choille

The smoking thing: I smoked for 32 years & reckon I paid the government a fortune in tax. The vaping thing is as bad for you, but gets to advertise on the telly.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I really hope that our ranch isn't haunted, otherwise I will have the hee-bee-gee-bees,.

I'm sure Robin and Maurice Gibb wont be the scariest ghosts you could meet.

(Ah....just read choille's post and no longer feel quite so gung-ho!:eek:)

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

The smoking thing: I smoked for 32 years & reckon I paid the government a fortune in tax. The vaping thing is as bad for you, but gets to advertise on the telly.

exactly ! its all political blurb. they couldnt do without the tax's on both booze and cigs. but they have to be seen to be trying to help the NHS and thier Fup in wrecking it even tho they had the taxes to pay for it [nhs]........ er the vapour cigs, i read that there are more harmfull unknowns in the vapour type .. no one can list ALL the ingredients? some are lethal.. but ooops the users/victims wont be a drain on the NHS ??!! its all one big vicious circle and the government wont hold thier big hands of failure up...

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm sure Robin and Maurice Gibb wont be the scariest ghosts you could meet.

(Ah....just read choille's post and no longer feel quite so gung-ho!:eek:)

One of my names was naming me after a relative who is a 'well known' ghost in her home town. She hanged herself. I don't think that's why I got the name though .