wednesday amidst cerulean splendor
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Usually comes down to the ground owners (unless you're freehold).Stevo_666 said:
Funnily enough one of them was boiler related.Ben6899 said:Stevo_666 said:'Kin ell, busy today. Work stuff plus stupid/nit picky questions from buyers solicitors, plus packing Stropteen off on the train to clean out her place in Liverpool. And its bl00dy hot in here as well...
We got asked if we'd service the boiler before moving out. We didn't have a boiler.
The real nit picking was about the garden shed we put up back in 2004 (I even got planning permission for it as there was some miserable old bag who lived in the close behind our garden who would have dobbed us in if we didn't). They trawled through the title deeds dating back to 1979 and found some sub-clause saying we had to ask permission from the developer before putting up a shed. I pointed out politely that the developer stopped trading in 2002.
"Oh you didn't ask permission to build that conservatory 4 years ago? That'll be £750 + vat for us to grant retrospective permission or you can't sell your house"
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Apart from apartments in a block etc, who tf in their right minds buys a leasehold house scam?0
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My flat (detached house divided into two flats) was leasehold. But ground rent was only £25 every 6 months and there was no maintenance charge.orraloon said:Apart from apartments in a block etc, who tf in their right minds buys a leasehold house scam?
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Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to fuck off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.0 -
Quite a lot of people by the sound of it, seems like a lot of houses on new estates have been sold this way and it's been on the news recently. You would've thought the solicitors would've flagged that up as an issue with all their nit picking questions.orraloon said:Apart from apartments in a block etc, who tf in their right minds buys a leasehold house scam?
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From what the bus driver said it sounds like it was premeditatedhopkinb said:He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
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Some of the most considerate professional drivers out there are bus drivers, but equally, some of them are the amongst the worst.
Problem is, inexperienced urban cyclists assume that riding up the inside of traffic is the safest place, because that's where the lane is painted. It rarely is. You can't see anything, and no-one can see you.
For the sake of balance, there are a hell of a lot of red light/pedestrian crossing ignoring cyclists, way more than there used to be, and there's nowhere near as much cycle traffic as there was. If I was a pedestrian on a green man or zebra crossing I'd just push the fcukers off their bikes.
Here endeth the lesson.
S'fcukin hot. I'm a going to suffocate a few polar bears in the office.0 -
We're freehold, it just had some odd shyte in the title deeds.homers_double said:
Usually comes down to the ground owners (unless you're freehold).Stevo_666 said:
Funnily enough one of them was boiler related.Ben6899 said:Stevo_666 said:'Kin ell, busy today. Work stuff plus stupid/nit picky questions from buyers solicitors, plus packing Stropteen off on the train to clean out her place in Liverpool. And its bl00dy hot in here as well...
We got asked if we'd service the boiler before moving out. We didn't have a boiler.
The real nit picking was about the garden shed we put up back in 2004 (I even got planning permission for it as there was some miserable old bag who lived in the close behind our garden who would have dobbed us in if we didn't). They trawled through the title deeds dating back to 1979 and found some sub-clause saying we had to ask permission from the developer before putting up a shed. I pointed out politely that the developer stopped trading in 2002.
"Oh you didn't ask permission to build that conservatory 4 years ago? That'll be £750 + vat for us to grant retrospective permission or you can't sell your house"
Edit: if they make a fuss about it I'll just take a sledgehammer to the shed once we've cleared it. Job done."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Well done H³, a knight in shining Castelli. Just give me your bike, I'll accept it even with the click.0
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Just saw neighbour with the dodgy electrics, sparks came out today and replaced the socket leaving it in the same place. When she questioned it he told her it would be fine but not to use the tap until the plumber had been 😳
It may be legal but it's clearly problematic. He could have drilled a hole and moved it 6 inches to the left with the amount of room there was. Then the water wouldn't drip directly into it. Utterly 'king useless.0 -
But maybe the plumber is moving the pipes and the taps so it will all be ok
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Could also be rear derailleur. Might have been knocked out of alignment cramming it in the asgard with the unused bikes.
As with all tiny clicks, it could be anything. Once it was my laces flicking on the chainring...0 -
Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.0 -
This wins you member of the dayhopkinb said:Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.
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I think you should have told her to **** off and drive the MiL herself. How else will she learn?hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It did but this:..tlw1 said:
This wins you member of the dayhopkinb said:Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.
...is totally incomprehensible.hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I had a boilerplate reply that they would investigate. Unfortunately I don't use my camera anymore, as it stopped recording, so all I could do was submit details of the vehicle, pic of the driver, and I did take the number of the woman who was nearly squashed.tlw1 said:
This wins you member of the dayhopkinb said:Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.
In nearly 10 years of urban commuting. I've never seen anything quite so egregious. I hope they look at the onboard cameras on the bus and sack the bastard, but they won't.
Like I said though, I would never have been in her road position, riding slowly on the inside of a bus. I'm not victim blaming, he should have seen her, and waited.
Behind, or on the outside of large vehicles.
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i once spent a week tracking down the front mech cable end clicking on the crank arm.hopkinb said:Could also be rear derailleur. Might have been knocked out of alignment cramming it in the asgard with the unused bikes.
As with all tiny clicks, it could be anything. Once it was my laces flicking on the chainring....The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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then stalked them all in the way in a stolen concrete drlivery lorry thing.Stevo_666 said:
I think you should have told her to **** off and drive the MiL herself. How else will she learn?hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.
#subtleintimidation.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Good plan MF. All in the name of education.MattFalle said:
then stalked them all in the way in a stolen concrete drlivery lorry thing.Stevo_666 said:
I think you should have told her to **** off and drive the MiL herself. How else will she learn?hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.
#subtleintimidation"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Try living with Mrs H³.pinno said:
It did but this:..tlw1 said:
This wins you member of the dayhopkinb said:Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.
...is totally incomprehensible.hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.
I'm not really researching oblivion, I just feel like it, given the endless stream of inconsistent nonsense.
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Checked that too...MattFalle said:
i once spent a week tracking down the front mech cable end clicking on the crank arm.hopkinb said:Could also be rear derailleur. Might have been knocked out of alignment cramming it in the asgard with the unused bikes.
As with all tiny clicks, it could be anything. Once it was my laces flicking on the chainring...0 -
Not just nonsense. But nonsense THAT IS SO IMPORTANT, AND IF YOU DON'T VALIDATE AND SUPPORT MY NONSENSE YOU ARE EVIL.hopkinb said:
Try living with Mrs H³.pinno said:
It did but this:..tlw1 said:
This wins you member of the dayhopkinb said:Jeebus H Christ. Seems like avoiding covid from public transport has driven EVERYONE in SW London into their cars, thereby ensuring everyone will die from polluted filthy air instead.
Cars or bored yute have been knocking over the pathetic plastic poles that were put up to bottle up (sorry, segregate and make safe) cyclists from the main carriageway. Bus drivers are as murderous as ever, one swerved late without indicating into a stop, cutting across a woman on a bike, driving her into the kerb and making her fall off. I checked she was OK, and gave the bus driver a rocket. He just told me to censored off and said cyclists deserve everything they get. I took a picture of him and the bus number/reg plate and will report him. He was fcuking fuming that I took his picture, but couldn't get out of his plastic box. 🙂 Not that it'll make any difference.
Oh, and my bike still clicks.
Lovely steak at lunch though.
...is totally incomprehensible.hopkinb said:Delighted that I thoroughly watered all the pots and beds. I kept telling her it was going to rain for days. But no, yesterday I "only" fed them, didn't soak them. so I HAD TO GIVE THEM A PROPER SOAKING today.
Fcuking Noah is outside building a fcuking ark.
She's basically mental.
Off to see how much is a wee bit of smack and crack off the shadier corners of teh internetz. Though her great aunt died recently, and the funeral is up in Chesterfield on Monday. Though we can't take the dog, as you'd expect at a funeral, and nothing has been planned kennel-wise, so Mrs H³ has chucked all the toys, so it'll be me driving the MiL up there and back in a day, because I'm not a miserable old bag. Met the woman once, I bought her a pork, crackling and apple sauce batch, it was lovely, I had one too, about the size of my head. It was about £1.15. She paid it back exactly. "I've never owed no-one 'owt, and I'm not going to start now".
Must dig out the black tie, and stay clean and dry. That's the way to do it.
I'm not really researching oblivion, I just feel like it, given the endless stream of inconsistent nonsense.
Just drive your mother to the funeral.0 -
Anyway. I'm sober, not mad, just driven to distraction.0
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Sounds like you need a stiff drink.
(Or a stiff something
) seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
The potted plants I have go dry so very quick.
Perhaps you could encourage her to take care of a few plants. Maybe give her one for her birthday - something like a Begonia which she'll have to take care of and bring in during winter.
Or would she pick up on it?
Even my (previously) garden work shy OH waters the plants now where before, it was all my domain.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Buy her a Triffid."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
