I would just like to say

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6pot said:
Not as simple as that. It was a guess but a friend planted the pip and gave the seedling to us as he said if we plant it in Spain it might do something. It was probably a small tree, I'll have to see if I took any photos of it. Drove it over in my van, no problem with that sort of thing then.

At the first two houses it was in a pot but eventually I planted it in the ground and it did eventually do something. Shame we can't dig it up now.

Mind you re. the current house your estimate is not far off, been building it for 14 years now. That’s what happens when you do it yourself while living in three countries at the same time. I'm going mad though.
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Don't worry, we took on our house from the builders in 2008, We were both still working then so could only fit it out during the holidays, I was often here on my own as W didn't have as many hols as me, obvs. The buildrs had tiled the floors in all but one room where I fitted a wodden floor, and all the plumbing was just bare ended pipes sticking out of the floor.

They made a massive boo-boo in the upstairs bathroom where they expected us to fit a shower on a "plinth" 6 inches off the floor, tiled like the rest of the room. with a wife with a paralysed left foot and a cage in her back that was never going to happen. Fitted out the downstairs bathroom, planned out the big upstairs one, our own, tiled half of it floor to ceiling inserted all the fittings for the two mirrors and basins and fitted the bog, Left the tiling on those two walls until I'd done the shower. But destroying the plinth turned out to be a pig of a job especially as we didn't want to damage the surrounding tiles. The concrete part of it was made of turned out to be brownish in colour and just didn't behave like normal concrete. Due to a back problem I cannot work for long at floor level and I just couldn't get the job done. I also did my lungs no good by using a big cutting disc on it and forgetting to put a mask on as it was "just going to be quick". Eventually our new son-in-law came over here for a holiday with the fam,ily and in a Saturday morning he got rid of most of it, but what with one thing an another it is still unfinished, 16 years later! and the "workroom" which is supposed to eventually be a study type place, is still undecorated as that is where we keep all tools. materials and a sort of workbench! and our only excuse is that we have another place in the UK and can only come over here for 6 months a year! We do know of other couples who have 3 places, but we are mad enough as it is without adding that into the mix!

so good on you!:):):)
 
...as feared the sneaky little chap (the nasty BIL) had cajoled his mother into writing a cheque for £12,000.:mad:
That's 25% of her liquid assets in one hit.
That is how he is now riding round in an Infiniti 5L motor.
I would cheerfully key every panel or pour paintstripper all over it if I could guarantee not being found out. :p
 
Arternoon all.
Bin up since very early to finish the first two apple trees. similar amount picked today. As the trees don't really get pruned they are reet beggars to work in. But we think that might be why they are so productive, there are branches simply everywhere.
Managed to fall out of it today. Ladder wasn't as well positioned as I thought, it suddenly lurched forwards in fact to a safer position but caught me off balance so I slid down the rungs on my work boots until my feet hit the ground and the momentum made me fall quickly onto my back and bang my head on a couple of wine boxes full of apples.
I'd love to see a vid of it!
No damage as far as I can tell to myself. Not so for the boxes of appuls!
Have a good day folks! :):):)
 
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DanClarke said:
...as feared the sneaky little chap (the nasty BIL) had cajoled his mother into writing a cheque for £12,000.:mad:
That's 25% of her liquid assets in one hit.
That is how he is now riding round in an Infiniti 5L motor.
I would cheerfully key every panel or pour paintstripper all over it if I could guarantee not being found out. :p
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To me this is an outright con. Has no doctor stated that she is not of sound enough mind to manage her finances, or much else? :mad:

Reminds me so much of how W's brother conned his mother into a writing a new will directly opposite to the old one, cutting everyone out except him. The one who did very little to help his mother other than persuading her to sell her house and move into a series of ever worse retirement "homes". He never visited her, when W went to see he wasn't in the visitors book, the old woman had none of her own clothes, no valuables, no underwear that fitted her, (W went to Tesco and bought her a pile of underwear and other stuff from charity shops to make up outfits for her. both she and dottir sat down and marked all of them up with her name to try to reduce theft. The home tried to get hold of said brother on the phone, he refused to answer. ) No wonder she had constant water infections. :mad:

She had no idea who W was, she was convinced that dottir was W. Yet some barstaff solicitor allowed a change of will. So he got what was left of the estate, nothing to anyone else. :mad:

Still he appears to be separated/divorced now, maybe some karma happened. :vb-banana::vb-banana::vb-banana:
Maybe he will be/was forced to give up half of his ill-gotten gains to his wife and daughter. Flipping hope so.
 
DanClarke said:
...as feared the sneaky little chap (the nasty BIL) had cajoled his mother into writing a cheque for £12,000.:mad:
That's 25% of her liquid assets in one hit.
That is how he is now riding round in an Infiniti 5L motor.
I would cheerfully key every panel or pour paintstripper all over it if I could guarantee not being found out. :p
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Eye wonder if yer mrs could pop into the bank to talk to them about this. They must have come across it happening before. Eye wonder if they could cancel the cheque book or put yer mrs on everyfink as an authoriser so it couldn't happen again in future.
 
DanClarke said:
...as feared the sneaky little chap (the nasty BIL) had cajoled his mother into writing a cheque for £12,000.:mad:
That's 25% of her liquid assets in one hit.
That is how he is now riding round in an Infiniti 5L motor.
I would cheerfully key every panel or pour paintstripper all over it if I could guarantee not being found out. :p
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Does the wife have financial poa?
Also when you see it take pics and stick it on auto trader for 15% less than he paid for it and put his number on the advert. Even just to annoy him.
 
Decided to renew insurance on my Yeti as I can't sell it.
Quoted over 1100 quid ffs.
Been shopping around, NFU only do rural postcodes, Admiral came in at £800+, AA was £1030, USwitch £880 , and best so far is compare the market at £655 but no Euro cover.
Try again tomorrow 🤔 :rolleyes:
 
landowner said:
Decided to renew insurance on my Yeti as I can't sell it.
Quoted over 1100 quid ffs.
Been shopping around, NFU only do rural postcodes, Admiral came in at £800+, AA was £1030, USwitch £880 , and best so far is compare the market at £655 but no Euro cover.
Try again tomorrow 🤔 :rolleyes:
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Ah yes I'm glad you said. I'm looking at a yeti as. Wee town car for nipping about but needing 4x4. What's the top spec? Seen a few for sale with lots of poverty buttons 🫢 want heated seats at least.
 
WhiskyLassie said:
Ah yes I'm glad you said. I'm looking at a yeti as. Wee town car for nipping about but needing 4x4. What's the top spec? Seen a few for sale with lots of poverty buttons 🫢 want heated seats at least.
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Just bought one. Elegance spec is the one to go for. Top car is the Laurin and Clement trim but it has a panoramic sunroof which is notorious for developing untraceable leaks, either around the frame or at the top of the windscreen seal. They’re very good looking inside and very highly spec’d but avoided by those in the know. Very happy with my Elegance 2014.
 
DevonGuy said:
Just bought one. Elegance spec is the one to go for. Top car is the Laurin and Clement trim but it has a panoramic sunroof which is notorious for developing untraceable leaks, either around the frame or at the top of the windscreen seal. They’re very good looking inside and very highly spec’d but avoided by those in the know. Very happy with my Elegance 2014.
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Fab
 
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