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7 minutes ago, Wino said:

Bought my first house in 1991 with no deposit ( borrowed the deposit from the mortgage lender) Credit agricole IIRC a French subsidiary of "The Pru". £19k for a two bed terrace at the time.

Moved to a 3 bed ex council semi 4yrs later paid £29k and part exd that for £46k towards a new build 3 bed detached for £70k in 1999/ 2000.

Part exd that in 2010 for a new build  3 bed detached show house on a corner plot for £150k. Sold that for £175k in 2014. Moved to two terraced houses knocked into one which needed a refurb. Paid £115k for that sold it in 2018 for £165k and bought a 3 bed semi for £95k that again needed a refurb. Sold that this year for £145k and bought our current newish 3 bed semi in September 2021.

That sounds such hard work LOL Bought my current home as a 'new build' in 1992, and have been here ever since, I'm inherently lazy 🤣

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32 minutes ago, Wino said:

Bought my first house in 1991 with no deposit ( borrowed the deposit from the mortgage lender) Credit agricole IIRC a French subsidiary of "The Pru". £19k for a two bed terrace at the time.

Moved to a 3 bed ex council semi 4yrs later paid £29k and part exd that for £46k towards a new build 3 bed detached for £70k in 1999/ 2000.

Part exd that in 2010 for a new build  3 bed detached show house on a corner plot for £150k. Sold that for £175k in 2014. Moved to two terraced houses knocked into one which needed a refurb. Paid £115k for that sold it in 2018 for £165k and bought a 3 bed semi for £95k that again needed a refurb. Sold that this year for £145k and bought our current newish 3 bed semi in September 2021.

I'm living in the wrong part of the country. 😅

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52 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

That sounds such hard work LOL Bought my current home as a 'new build' in 1992, and have been here ever since, I'm inherently lazy 🤣

Lol. Two of the moves were errr let's say forced. One by a divorce and the other by a total idiot as a neighbour but we are finally settled .....for the moment.

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32 minutes ago, alexp999 said:

I'm living in the wrong part of the country. 😅

An old school pal of mine buggered off to Dorset when his mother decided to walk out and take a teaching job in Poole. 

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The rate of increase in house prices is ridiculous. I'm trying to do my part to reduce house price inflation by keeping my house price down with DIY "improvements".

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7 minutes ago, erictcleric said:

... by keeping my house price down with DIY "improvements".

But all that pebble dashing is so attractive! 😁

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3 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

But all that pebble dashing is so attractive! 😁

Can't go wrong with some lovely textured paint on the internal walls. Stops the kids leaving hand prints if nowt else 😉

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6 hours ago, StephenFord said:

24, OMG, some of my watches are older than that - I'm away for a lie down LOL

I've got t-shirts older 😀

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1 minute ago, Turvey said:

I've got t-shirts older 😀

And me! I regularly wear t shirts from 2003, knew it was that year as it was our first holiday to Florida and t shirts there were far better quality and less than half the price. Bought a load back and out lasted any I've had since 

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On houses, my dad bought my first house. 2 bed terraced. So first mortgage was on the next house. Think I needed to borrow  £25k for mortgage so actually borrowed £30k and bought a brand new motorcycle as well!! 😂😂😂

Happy days ( until divorce came along and witch had the house) 

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On 10/30/2021 at 9:44 PM, iantt said:

Like laughing at my partner with her choice of viewing tonight. She lined this evening's viewing on TV. She found something on Amazon I think. We sat down to start to watch and we were a little confused at the plot but picked it up slowly and still it wasn't clear really. I paused it after 50 mins of 60mins just to see how long it was. Mmm ..... Season 1 episode 10🤭🤭🤭🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😂😂😂.

Missed the last 9 episodes then. 

She is such a **** sometimes. 

She's gone and done it again. 

Last night she said she found a new TV show to watch. Dexter , new blood. I thought great. As we watched the first episode , I the plot didn't seem to flow as if we had missed a few episodes. Well we watched it to the end. I seemed to recall there being a Dexter TV programme that I hadn't bothered watching previously. I googled to find out we had missed the last 10 or so seasons of dexter 😂😂😂😂😂☹️

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That sounds such hard work LOL Bought my current home as a 'new build' in 1992, and have been here ever since, I'm inherently lazy 🤣

My Nan bought her bungalow brand new in 1967 and is still there now!!  It cost £4000... :laugh: 

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my parents bought there first house in 1964. paid £2500. were there for around 40 years. 

just checked on zoopla and found they sold it for£350k. last year it sold £530k !!!!wow. 

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I’m not at all been competitive here ha ha.My parents bought their cottage c1960 for £1000.My 95 yrs young mother still lives there👍

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My friends still live in the same terraced house that they bought in 1968 for £500 and then received a government grant for £500 to fit a bathroom and toilet the same houses on their street are now selling for £180,000, their rates( council tax) was 2/6d ( 12·5p) per month.

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On 11/9/2021 at 11:15 PM, iantt said:

She's gone and done it again. 

Last night she said she found a new TV show to watch. Dexter , new blood. I thought great. As we watched the first episode , I the plot didn't seem to flow as if we had missed a few episodes. Well we watched it to the end. I seemed to recall there being a Dexter TV programme that I hadn't bothered watching previously. I googled to find out we had missed the last 10 or so seasons of dexter 😂😂😂😂😂☹️

If you haven't seen any of the 'original' Dexter then you're in for a good show (just as long as you get the right order 😄 ).

The 'New Blood' is something I will get round to watching as it's just started on Sky which I'm not giving any money to!!

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I like that the "Quote selection" Box is back to normal and the names of those 'quoted' have reappeared as if by magic 👍

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10 hours ago, unofix said:

I like that the "Quote selection" Box is back to normal and the names of those 'quoted' have reappeared as if by magic 👍

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Gosh, you're right! LOL

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My oil boiler was grumbling at me telling me there was some impending doom on the horizon, so made an appointment for 'my guy' to call out and have a look. Unfortunately the boiler never got the menu and packed up totally at the weekend! I just love the way he actually 'repairs' stuff, rather than look at it with a sharp intake of breath saying my 28 year old boiler needs ripped out and replaced.

You can see by his side, 2 x 'scrap' boilers he had i his van and used some new parts, and some 'recycled' bits - the boiler now runs so silently it no longer wakes me up in the morning, I quite miss that LOL

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Here on the 'Main Land' as I'm sure you might politely refer to us English, the re-use of parts from an old boiler would get you 10 years hard labour ! 🤣

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1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

My oil boiler was grumbling at me telling me there was some impending doom on the horizon, so made an appointment for 'my guy' to call out and have a look. Unfortunately the boiler never got the menu and packed up totally at the weekend! I just love the way he actually 'repairs' stuff, rather than look at it with a sharp intake of breath saying my 28 year old boiler needs ripped out and replaced.

You can see by his side, 2 x 'scrap' boilers he had i his van and used some new parts, and some 'recycled' bits - the boiler now runs so silently it no longer wakes me up in the morning, I quite miss that LOL

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Our heating engineer that we have used for the last 8 yrs or so is of similar ilk.

They would rather repair than rip it out and replace, which in this climate is hard to find.

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I do like doing my good deed for the day 😇

Just finished pressure washing our drive and path last weekend and our retired neighbours came over and asked if I would do theirs sometime. 

Set to it today, only took an hour or so but I was chuffed with the results, hopefully make it safer for them in the winter.

Only got one after shot as he came out and started speaking just when I was finishing 😀

 

 

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Treating myself to a nice chocolate brownie after a steady 9.5 mile walk along the local TPT.12042723_20211123_1406442.thumb.jpg.3149a8fb463dde9d9a58cef7b673e200.jpg

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I do like going on a mystery destination tomorrow with a beautiful woman which I met last week via Tinder, 

she's collecting me tomorrow morning and dropping me back tomorrow evening but wont say where were going, 

so spontaneous and exciting  

 

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