Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

All this talk on house prices made me look. I fall into the same category as Southern Girl, 250K get not a lot, and no where near mansion styles

Where I was dragged up they are over 500K for a semi:eek: And that area now fits President Trumps description of a S****ole
I still would not move and uproot from here, too much hassle and TBH nowhere I fancy moving to and settling back in

Interesting thoughts on various berries, I see the MTSM berries are also called Goumi Berries, bit easier to pronounce
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/goumi-berry/goumi-berry-shrubs.htm

I remember hearing about fuchsia berries, the point made was knowing the difference between edible & palatable. As MTSM said, bit lacklustre tasting

Back to CFO
No breakfast, but nice & sunny, bees busy in my apple blossom, preparing for my summer crumbles
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Nothing fancy in L's, but food was already in hand for today

Lunch was a defrosted YS mini pizza

Dinner is YS rump steak BBE today, fried eggs & HM Actifry chips

PasturesNew

Today I had a packet of crisps for breakfast, two hot sausage rolls for lunch - and for tea I'm just now knocking up a baked spud which will be topped with cheese and beans.

I now need to start actively eating things in my cupboards, with a plan to pretty much have zero food in the house on moving day.

If I start running it down now and actively don't "stock up" on anything, nor get in something "just in case" ... then I stand a good chance of getting through it. Then I'll only buy 1-2 days' food at a time, without keeping a "stock" in of anything.

PasturesNew

wort wrote: »

....Facebook to share with friends...

While the idea appeals to me, I don't have any "friends" on there, so nobody'd share. If you're active on there and have been around the area for ages and know people then you will get shares. I'm unknown, an out-of-county hermit.

Also, as a lone female, nervous with people, you do have to start questioning how "safe" that all is as the people are "unqualified". EAs at least see the people, put them on a list and "vet" them to find out their situation and mortgageability to some degree, so you get "proper house hunters" (and tourists on holiday just noseying, unfortunately) ... and not just idiots that have no idea about mortgages or costs or anything, but just got it into their head they could buy a house.

caronc

Good afternoon,
It's blowing a gale, perishing cold and nearly dark, so much for it being May, I've had to put the heating on....
Hopefully this is the last of the icy cold weather for a few months.

I'm thankful that I've no plans to move, while my house is a bit big for me I'd probably pay about the same for something similiar but smaller. This area is a favourite spot for people wanting to retire to the coast so smaller houses and decent flats are comparatively expensive.

I thoroughly enjoyed my bagel at lunch time despite managing to wear it:o, I then manage to miss my mouth and splashed myself with cupasoup:o:o.

I've still not decided what to have with the salmon later.

Brambling

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, as a lone female, nervous with people, you do have to start questioning how "safe" that all is as the people are "unqualified". EAs at least see the people, put them on a list and "vet" them to find out their situation and mortgageability to some degree, so you get "proper house hunters" (and tourists on holiday just noseying, unfortunately) ... and not just idiots that have no idea about mortgages or costs or anything, but just got it into their head they could buy a house.

Although I did the occasional viewing including the one for my buyer I much preferred the EA doing it, for some of your reasons and because if you're not careful you become too honest and point out the faults, also the EA can earn their commission.. I also preferred a EA showing me a house, you can be more honest and there were occasions I walked in and straight out again, which I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing with the owners there. I'm happy to stay here a few more years when I moved I considered it part of my pension plan if I wanted to I can downsize later and take the capital.

The weather here has been lovely today a little nippy out of the sun but nice, it was good to get a walk lunchtime unfortunately it's clouding over now and its forecast to rain tonight and tomorrow.

Lunch was a salad using up bits from the fridge, cheese, egg, Serrano ham. I'm feeling cba re dinner i had planned a frittata using LO veg but it may just be crumpets, I'll see how I feel when I've finished my cup of tea

moneyistooshorttomention

I didnt have much option but to use the EA to show my last house - as I'm very easy indeed to read unfortunately and I'm not some sort of super-confident pushy type either.

So - when I sold my last house, I'd sometimes just be literally sitting in a cafe very close by having a cup of coffee and waiting for the EA to ring me and tell me what way the viewer reacted to the house.

The EA I used was pretty carefully chosen by me and wasnt perfect - but they werent bad overall. Come the person that did end up buying my house - the EA was telling me how they looked/what they said and telling me that they would be the one buying my house. I still had to wait a few days before they asked for a second viewing and then came back and had that. But - I didnt feel too bothered - as EA had explained they "knew" they would be the buyer and quoted their "evidence" for thinking that.

As they were a first time buyer too - it did help that the EA explained what the accompanying parent looked like and told me what road in my city the parents lived in (cue for me thinking "They can certainly afford to help their adult child out here then - that road is not cheap and it's where more established/wealthy locals tend to live:D"

caronc

I was fortunate that when I last bought and sold, that my Mum worked for a legal firm that had an EA arm so they handled it for us. It was a godsend as unfortunately having accepted an offer on our house (binding in Scotland) at the last moment before we could complete on the one we had bought, the owner died nulling the sale and her family decided they didn't want to sell. I was pregnant and unfortunately unwell so in and out of hospital. They managed to negotiate an extension on the sale of ours and did all the legwork in finding alternative properties for us to view. Thankfully we subsequently bought the house I'm still in. Call it destiny or whatever but we sold just as the market peaked and the subsequent delay meant we bought just as after the market crashed! It did mean we had to move when the baby was 8 weeks old which wasn't what we planned.:eek:

PasturesNew

I've been up since about 4... it's raining out there. Weather man says it'll rain until about mid afternoon....

I've defrosted a panini that I froze last week and I'll probably fill that with something in a bit... or toast it and top it with scrambled eggs and beans for breakfast.

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I blame escape to the country for the awful house prices in the SW and in my area. Londoners selling up and moving west and commuting from one side of the country to the other. 300k will buy a small semi, depends on how much you want to sacrifice location ie to be in a tatty area

I am out to wales later so my frozen chicken pie is on standby. Had half can of fat luscious sardines in olive oil on rye crackers. Later the hemp drink and then a brunch, depends what time my veg box comes, of a cooked breakfast and a small bowl of LO sweet leaves. I may or may not need my pie when I come home late afternoon.

I am another who didn`t sleep well last night, bleeping left hip ache all night and rain battering down. Should have taken a paracetamol, I forget that I had done some heavy shifting in the garden and that I ache the same night. I am not doing any more heavy gardening stuff after I move, will be finding a gardener

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep Kittie - and don't forget the type of City Council that is hellbent on attracting big businesses to move in.

In ironic situation of having gone from the "devil" to the "deep blue sea" - from a Council hellbent on doing that (and blow the locals already living there) to ones that are doing their darndest to put off any businesses coming in at all (it may or may not be deliberate policy to be offputting on their part - but by the time some of them push the local language and schools swop to it - then..bingo....you try attracting businesses to come in - ain't gonna happen...:cool:). I've come to the conclusion they may want the businesses to come here per se - but only on their terms - and don't accept that businesses will operate their normal way or not come at all and bang go the younger generations jobs....

Somewhere in the middle of that is a "happy medium" of maintaining what business there is/not putting undue obstacles in the way of businesses on the one hand and being very offputting to businesses on the other hand.

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On the food front - and still in a quite prolonged cba mode and guess it will be the perennial standby of roasted vegetables again today, with couscous and hummus. Fair bit of fruit to eat up too before it goes off - or into the freezer to make sure it doesnt. The plan was to go in town (and I coulda bought some more food whilst there) - but I was doing a fair bit of gardening yesterday and it has clicked why my limbs are weary today.