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

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Blimey it's wet out there - and cold! Local roads are surface flooding ... you can barely see to drive because it's so pitch black and car lights are so bright and the rain is falling incessantly.

Glad to be home!

Same here. Been to the docs.
Cold and horrible out.

GDB2222

It's beautifully sunny right now, but freezing cold!

Pyxis

We had a very temporary fluttering of snow this morning.
Typically when I had an early hospital appointment!

Anyway, it didn't last long, and by the time I'd been seen, it was brilliant sunshine, thank goodness!

PasturesNew

The other day I got excited that the sun was on my window for 15 minutes - thing is, it wasn't "IN" the room, just on the outside frame.... since then, nothing. Sun's up and out out there, but I don't see a piece of sunshine inside the house whatsoever.

I got fed up with forever "missing the sun". It didn't used to be so bad here as the sun would come in the side window all year round - but the buildings next door cut out months of sun when it's not peak summer.

All I want .... in the next house .... is: to have daylong sun available, right into the evening.... and to have proper/my own parking, off road, defendable, preferably a garage.

Those two things are the top of the list for my next place - and I "don't care" what the property is/like/where .... so long as it's got those two bits present. They are non-negotiables.

My patio doors/living room face East. Small window on the south.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

The other day I got excited that the sun was on my window for 15 minutes - thing is, it wasn't "IN" the room, just on the outside frame.... since then, nothing. Sun's up and out out there, but I don't see a piece of sunshine inside the house whatsoever.

I got fed up with forever "missing the sun". It didn't used to be so bad here as the sun would come in the side window all year round - but the buildings next door cut out months of sun when it's not peak summer.

All I want .... in the next house .... is: to have daylong sun available, right into the evening.... and to have proper/my own parking, off road, defendable, preferably a garage.

Those two things are the top of the list for my next place - and I "don't care" what the property is/like/where .... so long as it's got those two bits present. They are non-negotiables.

My patio doors/living room face East. Small window on the south.

Where the place is, who the neighbours are likely to be (there's never any 100% guarantee of that), and how it's situated as far as sun goes etc. are far more important to us than what the building is like too.
We wanted a cottage when we bought this place, but ended up with a bungalow because of where it is.

GDB2222

No ferals. Don't forget that one!

And defendable borders.

PasturesNew

I have to accept there will probably be ferals everywhere.... so defendable is most important.
Lots of places that are not defendable and/or could attract anti-social activity "out of hours", such as: Next to a footpath, backs onto open common/footpath, adjoining a social club car park. I've seen all sorts now....

Backing onto a train line is, to me, preferable to a park

Watching the area that I've now written off, the "gang" vandalised a superstore last night, preventing it opening this morning for an hour + a woman/her son were threatened with having their throats slit by the same people. That area's now totally out of control as nobody's rounding up the known perpetrators....

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

The other day I got excited that the sun was on my window for 15 minutes - thing is, it wasn't "IN" the room, just on the outside frame.... since then, nothing. Sun's up and out out there, but I don't see a piece of sunshine inside the house whatsoever.

I got fed up with forever "missing the sun". It didn't used to be so bad here as the sun would come in the side window all year round - but the buildings next door cut out months of sun when it's not peak summer.

All I want .... in the next house .... is: to have daylong sun available, right into the evening.... and to have proper/my own parking, off road, defendable, preferably a garage.

Those two things are the top of the list for my next place - and I "don't care" what the property is/like/where .... so long as it's got those two bits present. They are non-negotiables.

My patio doors/living room face East. Small window on the south.

If you want the sun to come right into the room, you need tall windows, and for that you need high ceilings, and for that you need an older house. The sun comes into my dad's house (built 1890s) much further than into my house (built c1970). I do get the sun coming right into the office at work and shining on right where my desk chair is, though. It comes through a really tall window. Our office has a very high ceiling, and is in one of the older parts of the building.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't quote, will delete.

Feedback, couple. Best they'd seen, she especially liked it. Others to see, but not dismissed it.

Agent said, with the market so slow, fewer buyers about, people feel no urgency to pick one...

The good news is that will be the same for you too.



Urgggh... wide awake club again. Woke up at 3.10am and have been awake since. It might as well be 10am.

SingleSue

Wide awake club here too (I've been up a few hours), I blame my next door neighbour who has to leave for work at 5am...she's not the quietest at getting ready or leaving.