Most of the places we’ve been to see the vendor has done the viewing, but at the weekend we went to an open viewing of a pretty dilapidated place in a prime spot where we want to buy. Too much of a wreck for me to consider,

My perfect purchase! An undefiled virgin property. I’m fed up with being offered “tastefully and sympathetically” updated properties. I was a joiner for 30 years and have the sort of tastes I couldn’t afford if I had to buy them. I’m not going to pay over the odds for someone elses poor taste or DIY experiment. Sadly though, people do…

maybe they have a faulty boiler?

Why is it “dodgy” for tradesmen to put a percentage on the material cost????
All other shops and business’ do it.
Is my spare time not worth as much as yours?

Re-read my post. Where have I said a mark up is dodgy?
Some punters can’t understand it and believe all savings should be passed direct to them, and anyone who does mark stuff up is dodgy…

What’s with all the question marks?

How much is that Howdens stuff mer metre sq? I hate their business model, “Trade Only” so dodgy tradesmen can’t be found to be earning a mark up by their punters.

That flooring looks pretty cheap, character grade with big lumps of filler in the knots.
This place has ranges from cheap to dead posh!

http://www.flooringsupplies.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKEAjwy6O7BRDzm-Tdub6ZiSASJADPNzYrIUOt7yNI_hr-Dvfvf8u50Sm_acp-YZzBsVTbu9DRgRoCV7bw_wcB

great service too.

Hopefully they’ll be tried for treason, as will cameron, and strung up by the knackers from traitors gate, being nibbled at steadily by the Tower Ravens.

Having sold my house quicker than intended recently I’ve been rushing to either buy or rent something else. It’s been 3 weeks of hell, trawling the web, phoning agents and viewing. I’ve made 2 offers, both probate sales. One accepted my asking price offer two weeks after I made it, stressing it was conditional on the house being taken off the market. The other I’m still waiting on after a month. Apparently they’re overrun with offers and are having a hard time deciding. Strange that the overgrowth leading to the front door isn’t battered down.
Now happily due to rent for a while during the economic winter of brexit gloom.
I had forgotten what tossers estate agents are….

the other dogs body language was clearly not interested and he needs to get the idea of this.

Was it though? The OP doesn’t say he saw any signs. It seems he just regards a dog being on a lead as a warning.
If dogs are unhappy with a pup’s attention they’ll usually warn them with a growl, but like people, there’s some mardy ones.
Hopefully the pups OK and is a little more circumspect with other dogs but not scared stiff of them.

What sort of dog was the other one?

Is driving getting worse?

Mine certainly is.

think it was a DeWalt branded Elu back then…they’d previously bought Elu I think.

Elu made some cracking tools until DeWalt bought them…
Penny pinch here, penny pinch there. Spray it Yellow…

Who says money is wasted on Space, and why do you think that pic proves otherwise?

Plenty of embarrassement to be had for a 14 year old stuck in a traffic jam outside school with her dear old dad at the wheel…

(even if he does know exactly where to start singing)

Old friends, mainly lefties in London, nearly 100% IN.
Surrey friends and acquaintances (Tory, Nimby, etc…) nearly 100% OUT.
No surprises there…

I’m in.

what car?

Behaving like an EU bureaucrat.
A whiff of power…

ask yourself what kind of country the UK was in the ’70s, ask yourself what has changed in the UK between then and now

It was like this…

and this…

When did Jimmy Pursey morph into Nigel Farage?

I’ve changed 1 wheel bearing.

It was such a pig of a job I was happy to pay a man £200 to do the other when it went.[/quote]

+1
There are some jobs that are more aggro than they’re worth. Wheel bearings are one; driveshafts are another.

Easy jobs with the right tools. The right tool is a 20tonne press.

eggsackly

An hour+ in the morning with both the terriers, through the woods, thickets, culverts and brambles, up hill and down dale. The Jack Russell finds “walks” boring so a bit of hunting and death needs to be included.
After breakfast she’ll carry on hunting in the garden until she’s called in for her tea, while the Fell Terrier snoozes in the sun until I’m ready to take him out for another hour’s walk or a run. The worst thing that’s ever happened to him in nine years is not having a second walk one day, while the JR couldn’t give a toss.

Is this by any chance for sale?

*everything* is for sale (well not quite). Price is usually the issue though…

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/default.aspx?carID=9003&i=8

I knew it would be 6 figures; didn’t think it would be half way to seven… 😯

There’s so many variants using that basic body.
Even a good nick boggy standard 1750GTVs like me dear old mum’s are asking circa £30.
Probably have to settle for one of those…

This is my brothers Alfa Giulia GTA Stradale.

Is this by any chance for sale?
I need it!

Pfft kids and dog would trash it in hours.

Ain’t that the truth!
I sold my old Forester after 10 years of hauling dogs, logs, kids and bikes and replaced it with a Merc .

That suffered more in a month than the Subaru did in ten years.

Mind you, modern Subies aren’t as tough as they were either…

What about parking for visitors, horse boxes etc? Where will they load/unload?

no, you’ll be called a nimby but that’s about it.

Yup, you’re a nimby.
Voting for Brexit too? 😉

Jelly and good quality ice cream.
Carbs and fruit in the jelly. Protein and fat in the ice cream.
What’s not to like?

Yeti

What’d’ya think?

The chain looks too tight.

Terrier recall, or lack of, is over rated. They’re no worse or better than other dogs.

Except, probably, Pointers.

but what isn’t?

Good Luck!
Ham and cheese are your friends…

Just keep going!
It’s easy to drink yourself sober while it’s still daylight.

funny mood I’m in…

6″ is no problem is you have a tracking chainsaw..

Fine on cross cuts but will a chain saw rip?

I want one whatever!

IANAL but I don’t think you’ll get a CCJ if the small claims court finds against you; only if you refuse to pay up and they get a further County Court order against you. CCJ = County Court judgement.

I would fight it.
Write to the builder rescinding your peace offering and suggest he takes better legal advice. If after listening to said better advice he still wants to take proceedings against you, you’d be happy to meet him in court, and may even consider a counter action against him…
He’ll bother you no more!

a minor accident resulting in a small dent in the other cars bumper and a damaged front grill to my car.

and this is coming to more than £2500?

Except (go back and read the OP) – as far as i can tell from googling and talking to the council, there is no offence of allowing your dog to foul PRIVATE land, only public. So if i decided to take someone to court – on what grounds?

On the grounds of Trespass, a civil matter so the OP will be picking up the tab. Plod will not be interested.

Get an injunction for each and every dog owner who allows his mut to shit on his land. If they break the injunction I believe it becomes a police matter.
Do-able but financially crippling. Hence the fence/spikey plants are cheaper.

Plant some pyrocanthus around the perimeter, or put up a low fence. You say it’s not practical, but it’s probably a sight more practical than taking the culprits to court, which is your other option.

Did they flash you once you were past?

recyclables donated, the rest on the compost heap.

An old chap I often meet out with the dogs has one. She’s the same age as my two terriers, who, at 9 years old, are just approaching middle age but don’t show any sign of slowing up, yet she’s absolutely knackered. Her breathing is laboured but is apparently all right as she had “the operation” that most pugs need just to breathe.
Now her spine is fubarred (another pug ailment) and the supervet has declined to operate, despite money being no object.
Poor little bugger. French Bulldogs suffer more though.
Please don’t get one. Get a Border Terrier, Fell or Patterdale. Fantastic little dogs.

you woiuld probably be able to smell it if you just lift an edge of floor with a crowbar.

Now you’ve fixed his train you are the Go To Man!

TBH, tellys confuse me, and while I’m still strong enough to chuck it through the window…