Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

I've never heard that - maybe it's a regional thing?

I've never heard it either.

Seriously, though, Pastures, if it's still really painful tomorrow, it might be a good idea to got to A and E in case you've cracked it.
Take lots of Country Lifes to read, while you wait for the X-ray.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Wow. Some decent paintbrushes required there!

I don't watch Homes Under the Hammer anymore, it drives me insane but when it started today they did have a lovely old house that was bought as a family home - I can deal with that as it's nice to watch.

But then it carries on and I am angry that a woman (who is not very savvy at all) has also been told by her "builder" that she needs planning permission to knock a hole over 3 metres wide in a wall and so doesn't have two months to wait for the permission to open up some tiny rooms at the back of an unattractive mid-century box in Stoke. If a "builder" doesn't know about building regs, I don't know what she's hired. Thankfully it doesn't need much work now that she's realised that an extension and loft conversion (budget £40k?!) isn't going to improve the value by more than £15k.

edit: what a nice lady. She's converted the lounge to a bedroom for a student let (4 beds) and left them with a small table in the kitchen with 2 chairs as their 'communal space'. Not even a sofa.

And she's spent more than the top value of £110k house is worth. Estate agents are wetting themselves at the quality. It has a shower over the bath for four students and the expensive doors haven't been oiled. That will be fun next year.

Mental note to switch over at 9.25 before the rip off program starts, even.

Sometimes that programme makes me want to spit.
Sometimes you get a house with original features, and then when you get the reveal, all the original features have been ripped out and it's been turned into a whitewashed box with spotlights in the ceiling.:mad:

Now I know these properties are bought to make a quick profit/rental, but it makes my heart bleed to see the character ripped out of them



(I speak as a person who doesn't have double glazing in the old part of my house, which is almost all of it, as the original pitch pine sash windows are still perfectly fine!)

Loanranger

Does Country Life constitute a real Posh Alert? It's only a magazine costing 3.50 and so that costs me 1.75 as two of us read it, though he pays all of the cost! A real posh alert would surely be, I just bought a hice (house) I saw in the pages of this week's Country Life.
Here is the link but unfortunately you have to subscribe to read the article. I can post the hard copy of the magazine, if you like, PN; just PM me if you want it.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/publication/country-life/country-life-january-4-2017

Pyxis

Loanranger wrote: »

Does Country Life constitute a real Posh Alert? It's only a magazine costing 3.50 and so that costs me 1.75 as two of us read it, though he pays all of the cost! A real posh alert would surely be, I just bought a hice (house) I saw in the pages of this week's Country Life.
Here is the link but unfortunately you have to subscribe to read the article. I can post the hard copy of the magazine, if you like, PN; just PM me if you want it.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/publication/country-life/country-life-january-4-2017

Didn't PN say she read it for free at the Dentist?
No, my mistake.


You should have said you nicked it from the dentist! :rotfl:






(Edit...... I do NOT advocate nicking any magazines from the dentist or any other establishment. Heaven forfend!)

chris_m

At least it was only Country Life, not Horse & Hinds, doncha know?

PasturesNew

The last magazine I subscribed to was Jackie magazine, in the 1970s

The chances are that most people buying CL and who think £3.50 for one magazine's "reasonable" .... will, over the month, also be buying other glossy magazines, not "just the one".

I'm not "that" interested in the CL article about Dave's DIY paint jobs ta. I can get all I need to know online really.

I'm scoffing freezer contents.

A big bread roll I froze mid December, two sausages I froze mid December, some frozen chopped onions and a squirt of ketchup

That's freed up the space of one sausage bap in the freezer!

P.S. I did cook them before I ate them - not THAT lazy about cooking

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

At least it was only Country Life, not Horse & Hinds, doncha know?

Or this........




I think that would have sent the Poshometer into meltdown! :rotfl:




I'd like to read the article on " Dealing with Gold-Diggers"! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Or this........




I think that would have sent the Poshometer into meltdown!

I'd like to read the article on " Dealing with Gold-Diggers"!

There must be a bit of hidden "posh" in you to know that such a magazine even EXISTED! That is, genuinely, the first ever time I've heard of it.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

There must be a bit of hidden "posh" in you to know that such a magazine even EXISTED! That is, genuinely, the first ever time I've heard of it.

Hahahahahahahahahah!

I didn't know!
I figured that a really posh magazine would be one that debutantes read, so I just googled "debutante's magazine"! This one and a couple of others came up!


Mind you, I had heard of "The Lady".

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

Weird couple today - woman had a monk on all the time

Anyone other than me who doesn't understand that?

Pyxis

hjd wrote: »

Anyone other than me who doesn't understand that?

Well, monks are a type of shoe, but you wouldn't normally only have one on. :huh:



Edit.....was it a typo for a mink?