He’ll be a 10 year old kid hiding in his bedroom, at his parents suburban 4 bed detached.

Move on.

It’s Goodwood Sports Cars apparently, Berwick.

I am losing the will to live with this thread, and the OP’s stubbornness to pick up the phone and help himself.

JUST CALL HIM FROM A DIFFERENT NUMBER AND ASK HIM WHAT’S GOING ON…please.

Paradoxically does anybody worry about accepting that amount of cash?
There”s an awful lot of counterfeit notes in circulation,and it would be an easy way of getting rid of some dodgy notes.

Generally, if I accept a large sum of cash for a car or motorbike etc, I’ll take the buyer to the bank, and pay it into my account. Once I get the receipt from the cashier, I’ll give them the keys.

Just take cash. It’s 2700 not 270000! Lol.

I’m just using the agent to find a tenant then managing the let myself, so I will get to meet the tenants. I guess I can talk to them then, and if they don’t have a mower, come to some arrangement.

Of course he does, and offers to provide the service at just £88.23+vat per appliance. Letting agents, innit

In fairness to the agent, his advice was to knock money off the first months rent if they don’t have a mower for them to buy one.

I provide a lawn mower and a few gardening tools, I don’t get it PAT tested yearly though. Does he suggest that all of your electrical appliances are PAT tested yearly???

He says only the mobile/movable ones should be PAT tested??

I don’t provide one with mine. I consider it their house while they are renting it and if they want to live in a nice looking house they need to mow the lawn. If they don’t want to mow a lawn they should rent a different house.

I agree. But you cannot force them to keep it tidy.

I’m actually happy to nip round there and mow the lawn every couple of weeks, it’s a small area, 20 minute job. I’d rather do that than face having a jungle every time the tenants move out.

He may well have not got round to doing it, kept fobbing you off with emails thinking he’d do it next week…nex tweek….etc, and is now trying to buy hmself some time.

Call from a different phone, ask him straight what the situation is.

lasagne sandwiches made with doughy, fatty, plastic sliced white and lashings of butter.

Last time I went biking in the Alps, the chalet cook would incorporate leftovers from last nights dinner into your packed lunch. We had lasagne in french bread on a couple of occasions, and also dauphinoise potatoes in french bread. Delicious.

I suspect that the OP has called the garage to find his car is ready and waiting, all done. The guy is really pleased to hear from him, and has been waiting for him to call.

Due to this the OP disappears from STW for a while to save face, having started a thread about a possible fraud that he hadn’t actually confirmed.

Roundup. Will take a tiny dab to kill a pot plant.

Chip butty with stodgey white buttered bread.

Oh, and a cone of chips with loads of chip shop salt on them.

I like to put double cream on ice cream if both are available. Cream freezes slightly on top of the icecream and gives it a bit of texture.

Jelberts ice Cream in Newlyn, Cornwall – offer an enormous spoon of clotted cream over their amazing vanilla ice cream.. :D

Do the mech hanger first (and replaceable dropouts if your bike has them), takes 5 minutes and costs nothing.

+1

It is the landlord’s problem to fix irrespective of who was holding the screwdrivers.

Yes, exactly. Hence why I said this:

I would expect him to refit all the units immediately with the correct fixings though.

8O

Sounds like you’re posting about a problem that doesn’t yet exist? Why not find out first, before posting? If you’ve come out of the deal badly, you’ll get the necessary sympathy, but you should expect some lambasting for posting without confirming the situation first.

Little bolts holding the rear dropouts on need a tweak

My Yeti 575 drove me nuts. Creak symptoms identical to yours. I finally took the rear dropouts off, which were slightly loose as it turned out, greased the surfaces with the frame and tightened them up. Blissfully quiet bike.

Unopened?

:lol:

I would be speaking to a lawyer straight away and getting seriously **** uppity about this. Damn right you’re entitled to get him out to look at the place, if you’re not already considering hauling his cheapskate piece of shit arse to court for compensation he’s incredibly lucky. I am a landlord by the way (via work, not buy to let), shoddy work like that leading to physical harm to your tenants is Officially Not On.

The fact that the landlord may have paid a kitchen fitter to fit the kitchen, and expected him to do it properly is evidently lost on you. As a landlord, would you stand over your kitchen fitter and inspect their work? Would you take the units off the wall to inspect the fixings once they’re gone? No.

The only time I could get arsey with a landlord over this type of incident is if it was a DIY job, and the landlord had been negligent.

I would expect him to refit all the units immediately with the correct fixings though.

Wasn’t last night, but I spooked a barn owl from a tree once while night riding, it swooped down, dazzled by my light and flew just in front of me for a good 10 seconds or so, about 3 feet in front of the bike. Amazing.

4 Badgers dead on the side of the road, which always gets me thinking how they actually got there??????

I always hold my breath as I pass, if I see them, nothing smells as bad as a dead badger in the summer. 8O

A kid spat at my car once and hurled beer at it, when I stopped the car he decided to attack it with the beer bottle, denting the roof door and a pillar. I got hold of him and called the police. It went to court, he was found guilty and had to repay my excess which was around £500. I’m still getting monthly cheques and it was 4 years ago.

Does wheel size make a difference then? :wink:

2 Wheels is my thing.

26″ is dead.

Best source of wallets is TK Maxx. Last one I got there was an Oliver Sweeney one for peanuts. Still going strong. I also bought another one as a spare, as I tend to wear them out in the back pocket.

ridiculously powerfully attached you get to them

Just a turn of phrase. :-)

Oh awful. People who have never owned a dog will never understand how much they become part of your life, and how ridiculously attached you get to them. Sorry for your bad news. I think it’s kinder to end it when their quality of life suffers, and not put them through prolonged treatment that makes them suffer. They won’t understand why you’re doing it. I hope I can go the same way.

I wood get to a doctor fast, your local branch for speed. He might twig what it is that bit you. Leaves now.

If you want different things and are unable to reach a compromise, it suggests that you don’t have much of a future. Sorry.

Ask her what size ring she takes. Then buy that size.

Kinda kills the surprise..?

IMHO OP would do well to separate the whole ‘best day of your life’ part of marriage from the real world ‘rest of your life’ part – too many people get all caught up with having a wedding and seem to forget it’s about staying together the rest of your life, and in my experience the more expensive and over the top the engagement/wedding the more flaky the marriage.

Agreed, 10 years of being together already should help a bit. :-)

No Booze. No processed carbs. No Sugar.

More protein. More Veg. More water. More exercise.

Buy her a pair of shoes.
At least you know the size.

No way, not another pair of bl**dy shoes.

Am I right in saying that it’s easy to reduce ring size, but not to enlarge?

Might go badly then. Why not propose with something she will like?
Pointless consumerism unless you really buy into all that stone/significance stuff.

She definitely wants a ring…even I can get that hint.