The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

All well and good, but why don't black hens lay black eggs. And, if they did, would folk eat them?

Colour prejudice??

 

[PaulSB]

Our rating system is a bit weird. It’s based on house values from years ago for some reason. I think when I bought this place 30 years ago I paid something like £52,000 so it’s a band D.

I got a walk done with nothing more than a few spits and spots. Porridge just finished and having a big mug of decaf.

Yes, I think we're based on a value from 1991 which has lead to the strange situation that on our terrace of 7 properties there are houses on three different bands.

We paid £23000 for our house 43 years ago.

 

[Paulus]

Yes, I think we're based on a value from 1991 which has lead to the strange situation that on our terrace of 7 properties there are houses on three different bands.

We paid £23000 for our house 43 years ago.

Are they the same style of house, if so you should all be banded the same.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Are they the same style of house, if so you should all be banded the same.

The council take into account any upgrades / extensions/ swimming pool in the back garden etc. They can look on Google earth and see if you've dug an Olympic sized pool without telling them 😁

 

[Dave7]

Yes, I think we're based on a value from 1991 which has lead to the strange situation that on our terrace of 7 properties there are houses on three different bands.

We paid £23000 for our house 43 years ago.

1982 we paid £21,000.

 

[Baldy]

Because I'm on the end of a row of terraced houses I've got a garage. I'm in band B, all the others are band A. When I moved here I found it amusing that it was called a one and a half story house rather than a dorma style bungalow.

 

[numbnuts]

My cardboard box on the side of the road is band A, it should be - A for what the council do for us.

On the path leading down to our front door is a load of shrubs, but it is over grown with blackberrys bushes
what it wants is to dig the whole lot up and start again, but the housing association wouldn't do that.
So I had tried to pull and cut as many stems as I can as they grow all over the path, look a lot better now.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My wife has just been looking for something on the TV menu

and found that you can watch Andy Pandy on BBC4 at 8 in the morning

with Teddy AND Looby-Loo

probably some modern thingy and not the proper on with visible strings!!!
probabaly in colour as well which is just wrong!!

 

[Dave7]

My cardboard box on the side of the road is band A, it should be - A for what the council do for us.

On the path leading down to our front door is a load of shrubs, but it is over grown with blackberrys bushes
what it wants is to dig the whole lot up and start again, but the housing association wouldn't do that.
So I had tried to pull and cut as many stems as I can as they grow all over the path, look a lot better now.

You have a whole cardboard box to yourself ?
When we were kids we shared one with 3 other families.

 

[Dave7]

Just enjoyed ham, egg, chips and peas.

 

[numbnuts]

I've just had "SEA" cod and parsley sauce, carrots and peas with mash

 

[Drago]

Yes, I think we're based on a value from 1991 which has lead to the strange situation that on our terrace of 7 properties there are houses on three different bands.

We paid £23000 for our house 43 years ago.

I paid just shy of half a million for mine in 2023. Estate agent reckons he could sell it for 75 grand more than that already. Mind boggling.

 

[Tenkaykev]

There’s also SEA Chicken. When I was working the apprentice was tucking into a Tesco Meal Deal. The list of ingredients on the sandwich wrapper showed that the chicken had been sourced from Thailand. Thailand is in SE Asia so that qualifies it as SEA chicken 😁

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour.
It takes a brave man to have a fart when you have diarrhea !

 

[Dave7]

I've just had "SEA" cod and parsley sauce, carrots and peas with mash

Funnily enough (well I didn't know) that there are some edible fresh water cod.