Tea? (Part 1)

[TheDoctor]

good morning all,
aghh out of tea here!!
c*ff** instead, but its a good pre ride alternative
2 days holiday yeah! so off for a ride as the weather looks good, waiting for the wash to finish so can hang it out! the washing that is!!!

PM me a fax number and I'll get a teabag to you.

What?

 

[TheDoctor]

*beep*Roger that Herts Control.....awaiting further instruction*beep*

*beep*Countdown Tea-minus 12 days*beep*

I need much more tea!!

Roger that. Have some more tea! *passes bucket across*

You got PM, dude. It's just a question or two.
Houston, we don't have a problem.

 

[Speicher]

It feels like Saturday.

That'll be down to the endorphins or probably post-endorphins and the day off tomorrow .
Tea tomorrow methinks.

Tomorrow is tidy the house day before lodger moves in. Shhhhh!

Are you still planning on moving house? Taking someone (Ssshhh) with you?

 

[Speicher]

oops forgot, tea please, and a Danish biskit thank you.

 

[TheDoctor]

Tea and biskit coming up!

How are you today, Sis?

 

[cisamcgu]

*scurries in*
Ohh tea... lovely
*grabs a cup and slips back to the drudgery of work*

 

[TheDoctor]

*sees cisamcgu*
*says hello*
*waves goodbye*

 

[Speicher]

Not too good. Right shoulder is aching and right hip very painful on bending etc. Does not help that I have two large cupboards to empty and distribute their contents through the rest of the house. I am taking it steady, but by gum the house is going to be a mess! Not easy to postpone the work. So many houses were flooded round here last summer, and all the builders, carpenters etc etc are overloaded with work.
I had to wait weeks to get "this slot". Fortunately, this stage, plastering the hallway, and mending the stairs is the last major job. Major renovations in this house started in January 2007, and were expected to take a year!

When Longers has finished tidying his house, I think I will go round there.

 

[longers]

Morning all, this day off lark is great . Thanks for the brew.

I've just remembered that I made coconut and cherry flapjack on Sat and it's not crumbly .

*puts tupperware on table*

Help yourselves eh?



Speich' - I'm trying!
Lots of legal obfustication has hampered progress dramatically but I'm almost sure that it will happen this month.

*hopes*

 

[TheDoctor]

Not too good. Right shoulder is aching and right hip very painful on bending etc. Does not help that I have two large cupboards to empty and distribute their contents through the rest of the house. I am taking it steady, but by gum the house is going to be a mess! Not easy to postpone the work. So many houses were flooded round here last summer, and all the builders, carpenters etc etc are overloaded with work.
I had to wait weeks to get "this slot". Fortunately, this stage, plastering the hallway, and mending the stairs is the last major job. Major renovations in this house started in January 2007, and were expected to take a year!

When Longers has finished tidying his house, I think I will go round there.

Doesn't sound nice. But started in Jan 2007, expected to take a year...that's only 3 months late. That's not too bad, by the usual pace of builders.

The trouble with building work is the house looks way worse for ages before, during, and a bit after until everything can go back where it needs to. Plus making endless cups of builders tea and providing them with their own bodyweight in biskits.

I've got another stint of Irish buildage coming up later in April. I just hope I don't have to get involved with Kangos / angle grinders and other whizzy sharp things. Too noisy, dangerous, and highly uncomfortable.

 

[TheDoctor]

Morning all, this day off lark is great . Thanks for the brew.

I've just remembered that I made coconut and cherry flapjack on Sat and it's not crumbly .

*puts tupperware on table*

Help yourselves eh?



Speich' - I'm trying!
Lots of legal obfustication has hampered progress dramatically but I'm almost sure that it will happen this month.

*hopes*

*Takes flapjack with gleeful thanks*

What's going on? Have I missed some gossip? Or shall I mind my own?

 

[Arch]

Good lord, I've only just made it in here before lunchtime! Lots of emails and a couple of Pm's to deal with.. Any tea on the go, or shall I put the kettle on? I'm off for lunch in five minutes anyway. Hummus and pitta bread, and trying to resist the crisps, I seem to have put on a few pounds in the last couple of weeks.

 

[tdr1nka]

I've got another stint of Irish buildage coming up later in April. I just hope I don't have to get involved with Kangos / angle grinders and other whizzy sharp things. Too noisy, dangerous, and highly uncomfortable.

Yay!
We are off to Ireland again in June for some of the same!
Time for stage two of the caravan cottage, connecting the caravan to the toilet shed so's no more nipping out in the rain to answer nature in the night!


Lots of angle grinding and whizzy blades to get this job completed!
Please excuse the rough photoshopped plan pic, the only Cad on my computer is me!

 

[longers]

*Takes flapjack with gleeful thanks*

What's going on? Have I missed some gossip? Or shall I mind my own?

It's not a secret, I just haven't mentioned it . And it's not very exciting.

The house was described as Freehold, it turns out it's Leasehold. Delay in sorting that out.

The lease for this house has the leases for the other nine houses tied to it so I am in effect the landlord for them. My solicitor quite rightly wants to see all nine leases for the other houses to make sure that there's nothing I'm actually responsible for. The other solicitors don't seem to want to pay Land Registry for copies of all nine leases, they think that having seen three of them we will be happy with that. Not so .

I'm not selling a house and it's an empty property so it having taken 3 months to get this far is slightly frustrating.

There will be a Par-tea when it happens though!

 

[TheDoctor]

The one thing I have learned over the years is then nothing is ever as simple as one hopes. When we remorgaged 15 years ago, the BS insisted on a structural engineers report on the foundations. It's 400 years old. It doesn't *have* foundations.