The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

silvercar

One's a bit grim .... it'd need a thorough makeover - removing artex ceilings, a new kitchen and the whole house decorating.... it's all a bit "shabby and bashed about and dark/gloomy".

I'd cross that one off the list. Too much hassle and who knows what the artex ceiling is hiding (asbestos maybe)?

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

In RM, in the area I think I'd like to be .... there are 9 houses for sale in what might be my budget, which are specifically not new builds.

All have a driveway
Most have a garage

3-4 beds... not bothered about the number of beds, it's about other stuff for me... I'd like a sunny garden and a utility.... a conservatory would be nice.... and no gardening....

One appears to have a ski slope as a back garden! It's only about 30' long, but by heck it's gone one massive slope on it!... that's off the list then.

One's a 1930s house and on a corner ... that's off the list then..

One's ideal and £20k under top budget.... garage and parking for two in the front garden... and a conservatory .... garden's a bit "green and has bushy things and medium trees" .... and it has some naff decking, despise that. But all those are issues that can be sorted with a can of lighter fuel

One's a bit grim .... it'd need a thorough makeover - removing artex ceilings, a new kitchen and the whole house decorating.... it's all a bit "shabby and bashed about and dark/gloomy".

I wonder if those 'neighbours' know what might be a-comin'? :rotfl:
Seriously, though, don't worry about bushes and medium trees....... that could mean a relatively low-maintenance garden.
That property sounds like you'd get a lot for your money!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I'd cross that one off the list. Too much hassle and who knows what the artex ceiling is hiding (asbestos maybe)?

Yeah, not looking for anything that needs work. I've no skills, tools, contacts for that nonsense

GDB2222

..so, I've got lots of jobs to do, de-cluttering, cleaning, tidying .....

Twigs.

LydiaJ

Took New Dog to her new foster home today. Lovely house, nice man, all very positive. Felt a lot better about it than I would have done about taking her back to the kennels. While it was clear that she would have preferred to have come with us, she didn't seem too upset at going there, which was a relief.

The foster home is quite close to Aged P's flat, so we went there first. While we were there, we took her for a walk round the garden. Dogs are allowed, but they have to stay on the lead. The garden at Aged P's place has a *lot* of squirrels. New Dog wanted to chase them all, but only ever got 5 metres towards each one before the 5m extendable lead got to its limit and stopped her. :rotfl:

In other news, I discovered that a child's fishing net on a pole is an ideal implement for getting picture hooks down from a high picture rail, such as those in Aged P's house. You can poke the hook off the rail and catch it in one combined manoeuvre.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

In other news, I discovered that a child's fishing net on a pole is an ideal implement for getting picture hooks down from a high picture rail, such as those in Aged P's house. You can poke the hook off the rail and catch it in one combined manoeuvre.

In times past, that might have been called a top tip but now in today's age of miracles and wonders it'd be an actual "life hack".;):beer:

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I took my sprogs to view a house where the master bedroom was pink - pink carpet, curtains, headboard, bedlinen and maybe some other things. DS knew the house was inhabited by a couple, and asked, confused, "Where does the male sleep?" Mercifully the couple were downstairs out of earshot, and the EA was great, answering him without hesitation, "If he loves his wife very much, he probably thinks it's worth having a pink bedroom if it makes her happy."



She has to pay stamp duty on the property she buys to move into, though, doesn't she?

I don't understand what you mean by negotiating stamp duty?

I think you have misquoted me

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had my screen and keyboard on a little square side table, placed in front of the sofa "to hand all the time" ... I've had to de-clutter them as they are really visually "odd" and I'd have ended up dismantling it and shoving it under the sofa for each viewing - and the legs were getting a bit ropey, so that'd have just not been sustainable.

It's in the car, to go to the tip on the next tip run.

I've got a little side table with drawers beside the sofa... where all my "handy stuff" gets hidden (hair clips, brush, remotes, bits of paper, receipts) ... so I've popped the monitor on top of that and have opened the top drawer as a keyboard shelf

I'm sitting on a little pouffe.

It's not .... to be fair .... very comfortable. The garden folding chair might get tested out a bit later, see if that's better.

We used to throw the carp in the car and park it round the corner when we had viewings....

PasturesNew wrote: »

In RM, in the area I think I'd like to be .... there are 9 houses for sale in what might be my budget, which are specifically not new builds.

All have a driveway
Most have a garage

3-4 beds... not bothered about the number of beds, it's about other stuff for me... I'd like a sunny garden and a utility.... a conservatory would be nice.... and no gardening....

One appears to have a ski slope as a back garden! It's only about 30' long, but by heck it's gone one massive slope on it!... that's off the list then.

One's a 1930s house and on a corner ... that's off the list then..

One's ideal and £20k under top budget.... garage and parking for two in the front garden... and a conservatory .... garden's a bit "green and has bushy things and medium trees" .... and it has some naff decking, despise that. But all those are issues that can be sorted with a can of lighter fuel

One's a bit grim .... it'd need a thorough makeover - removing artex ceilings, a new kitchen and the whole house decorating.... it's all a bit "shabby and bashed about and dark/gloomy".

Our house is 1930s and we love it. Corner would need to be two very quiet roads not to be a problem tho.

Rude word van clipped our wing mirror this evening busting mirror but more annoyingly the broken mirror hit the drivers door window smashing it. They did not stop and anyway how to prove who was over the white line?

Weird thing was this was about half a mile from where someone hit the mirror on our old car 12 months ago and this is the first time we have driven that road since then.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

In times past, that might have been called a top tip but now in today's age of miracles and wonders it'd be an actual "life hack".;):beer:

'Top tip'. That's a coincidence.

Last night I was struggling with a crossword clue that had been giving me grief for a couple of days and was the last clue to get.
Tip-top appliance in frame (5)
I had -h-l-
I resorted to my crossword dictionary, looking up every word in the clue, which usually gets me some results, but no joy.

So I looked up the Missing Letters site, which gives you all possible words with letters in those positions, and their meanings. There were loads of words, but none seemed to fit the clue at all.
(The parsing, or fitting the word to the clue, is just as important as getting the word).

Still totally stumped, I resorted to my very, very last resort, and went to a site where people ask for help with stumpy clues.

Well, I got given clues which enabled me to work out the answer, but it wasn't the eureka I'd hoped for. It was a damp squib.

The answer was chalk.
Snooker.
What you apply to the top of the tip of a cue during a frame.

Hmm.

When clues stump me to that degree, I like the answer to be a real light-bulb moment and then admiration of its cleverness.
Didn't get that with this one, just a little glow-worm fizzle.:(

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We used to throw the carp in the car and park it round the corner when we had viewings....

There was two of you; it depends how much carp you have; I can't park round any corner... for viewings I'll go out to a local supermarket for a browse around, or sit in the free car park 1 mile away.

Even taking the table to the car yesterday was a faff, with two trips - one to carry the top, one to carry the legs...

michaels wrote: »

Our house is 1930s and we love it. Corner would need to be two very quiet roads not to be a problem tho.

I lived in a corner house once and found that people would routinely stop right on the corner late at night, on their way home from the pub to have a 10-15 minute chat before they parted for the evening. Sober people, just having a chat, but loud - and under the bedroom window.

Corners can also be "feral loitering spots" potentially. There's also a lot of boundaries that need maintenance as they're more exposed on two sides.

This particular 30s house also has "a bit of land to the side that appears outside of the boundary, with bushes" so you then start to think about who owns that bit - and you'd end up maintaining an area where rubbish was dumped and all sorts.... that wasn't yours but nobody else has an interest in keeping it tidy. It looks, to me, like an ideal "kiddie playground area".

... and, just looked at the photos for it - it has a black kitchen. There's no way I am ever going to buy a house with a black kitchen

PasturesNew

It's rained overnight and I had two bags of clippings in the garden I'd just left out, so they're dripping.... nothing worse than attempting to take soggy clippings to the tip.

There's a small car boot on today .... might just give it a look round, but it'll most likely be "traders" with all the tat I've already seen, rather than "people having a clear out"... not sure what I want, but it's my last shuffle round to look probably. It'll be a bit damp, but I've got wellies

Got to declutter today - mostly sorting out Bed2 so it can be photographed to "look like a bedroom", whereas at the moment it also contains "all the leftover stuff I've not found a corner for yet + empty boxes and packing materials I've kept such as bubble wrap and polystyrene bits".... so I might need to clear out the shed a bit to get some of that out of the house.

EA's quite "switched on" to "moving stuff about, taking a photo, then moving it back" - he said that as if he does it all the time, rather than being something I brought up. But it still all need secreting away, ready for viewings.