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Yesterday was a good day

Well, a momentous day - wee man started crawling! I have come to rely on putting him down and knowing he's not going anywhere while I turn my back, it lets us get things like washing up and so on done. But no more, he's finally started crawling at th...

Boing

Spring appears to have sprung! Sunshine for two days in a row, I have turned the central heating off.The flat is still under offer, no progress as yet. I have appointed a solicitor, they have sent / are sending me acres of questionnaire to fill out, ...

What's a good cocktail?

I have Chartreuse, Jack Daniels, gin, bacardi, Travarica, amaretto, and vodka. I don't drink spirits, but I'm thinking of emptying our drinks cabinet in case we move soon. We have accepted an offer on the flat, so it will surely be soon, these things...

A shooting!

It's all gone a bit The Wire round here! An actual shooting to the death in practically my immediate family. Little girl tells dad that her step-dad smacked her, so dad goes round with his gun, puts it in step-dad's mouth and threatens him (verbally ...

Recommend someone to value our Folkestone flat for lettings?

Wondering about renting our flat out instead of selling it, anyone recommend a local lettings company?I tried Avenue Lettings, as one of the potential buyers apparently got them in to find out its rental potential, but have had no joy. Phoned them, t...

Flat in our block for sale for a lot less than ours

Here on Rightmove... I was curious, assuming it was one of the flats that's the same as our one. But no, it's the one bedroom basement flat next door. I think it sold for more than that not so long ago, this owner (who lets it) has not had it long I ...

Hot links of the day

Lego rubiks robot solves the cube in 12 seconds, thanks for that one @hpoom .Also here's that Folkestone urban skiing video that's been generating a bit of a buzz recently.BIt busy for actually writing stuff up. We are all well though, my cold is nea...

Heavy snow again here

A burst of heavy snow this morning in Folkestone that stopped as quickly as it started, but it's been snowing fairly consistently all day here at work, and it's just started to settle. It's going to be a fun walk back to the station. Yes I'm still ge...

Snow blind!

Still deep snow here, and bright sun at times, quite dazzling. Not snowing right now, not been much at all today. I can hear the irregular plop of huge loads of snow sliding off the roof, hope it doesn't all melt soon.Chaps in the office have made a ...

Home to a cold and empty flat...

It's been Clare's AGM today, well The Historic House Association's AGM, so Clare went up for it and took Harry along to see everyone. And they're still not back! Where is my tea?!?Will take this as a rare opportunity to get a takeaway, and maybe do s...

Wartime tunne in the hills above Folkestone sold for �144,000

BBC has more details...

UPDATE: 144,000, not 144 quid.

John Lewis Bergerac side table

Collect from Cheshire... why are none of these bits of furniture in the South? Do people in the South not care? Or do they just hang on to them?Got our first viewers of the flat today, wish us luck!...

Set of SIX Habitat Radius chairs

Maybe worth me buying these and selling on the extras... NO! NO more furniture until after we move!Dimensions W52 x H76.5 x D58cm, seat height: 48cmThese chairs are solid oak in a natural colour, made to go with the Habitat Radius range of furniture ...

Another brace of Habitat Radius chairs

�150 quid, collect from Reading. Not buying any more furniture any time soon in case we sell the flat. Had it valued yesterday, would be very nice to think it would actually sell for the prices the estate agents quoted. Going to get one more valuatio...

What's that big space in the flat?

Apart from the 70 or 80 already mentioned all the CD's are now sold! Jen did a good job at the boot fair, sold about half of them, then someone offered to take the rest as job lot, so we agreed. So that's maybe 200 quid we got in total. For a lifetim...

There goes the neighbourhood

It's like living in Fareham again! There's a piece of furniture been dumped in our front garden overnight! OK, it's a better class of furniture, not a rusty broken washing machine or a wee-stained mattress or anything. And, OK, hands up, it was me th...

No-one was in our house during the 1911 census

Just had a look at the 1911 census site and thought I'd have a scan see who was living in our flat at that time. Seems it's no-one! Most of the rest of the street has a record, including 57 (next door) and 63 (two doors along) but not our place or th...

Lovely christmas, where is the time going?

Went to my folks, nearly four days but it rushed by like nobody's business. Christmas eve in the Red Lion in Fareham disappeared in a flash too, didn't even get round to speaking to everyone. Shame it's so infrequent that we meet up. Great christmas ...

Evil day

Cold and horrible here, just done the shopping in the rain. Some snow this morning, too wet to settle though. FREEZING like I don't think I have ever known in Canterbury yesterday, proper arctic. Wondered round the shops a bit while Clare was having ...

There's me worrying about inflation and the economy in general

But look, free drinks, money behind the bar from a company that you don't even actually know, it's just like the old days of the first dotcom boom. I remember those "First Tuesday" or "Second Wednesday" nights or whatever they were when people who wo...

Rents not so soaring

Well, I'm sure they're still rising, but the flat upstairs has possibly not been let yet, I think the sign must have just blown down. It's back again today.Man, hella busy at work still, but it's good. I'm trying to clear a backlog of outstanding tas...

Rents SOARING!

Saw a feature on BBC Breakfast this morning about how that blame-for-everything credit crunch is leading to a rise in rental values - people who can't afford to buy have to rent, and there's still a limited number of properties available, so rents wi...

We nearly bought one of these

and perhaps should have done, half price Bergerac Oak TV stand. If you can collect from Glossop. Not worth organising a courier for really.Been a while since I posted any furniture bargains. Will be a while again before we buy anything I suspect. All...

[Crystal maze themed headline here]

Got home yesterday to find a new front door being fitted, it's amazing what you miss when you don't go to any of the residents meetings. So firstly, we have the inconvenience of only getting one key with this door, and new ones are fifteen pounds eac...

the text entry box is just something I was trying out at work

and I thought "I'll have a bit of that"... We've lived here for about three years, but owned this flat for nearly four. We don't need anywhere bigger, thanks cheeky, but we do want a house and a new town, we're set on Canterbury.Redesign schmedesign....

Today's walk around Canterbury

OK, not all walking, we got the bus to Canterbury, and the GPS kept the signal all the way as you can see... if you zoom in on Canterbury itself (which I'll try and do automatically I think) you can see where we walked. got some pictures to upload to...

My flat is well high

The street is about 20 metres above sea level anyway and I'm on the second floor... Sounds like the flood risk has passed for everyone now anyway.

Have a good weekend!

Wahey, good luck with flat number three!

When I catch up with you and I am a landlord too, maybe I'll be able to make it along for one of these drinks.Good that you're making a profit already on your flat, I heard that most small landlords don't break even on their buy to lets, but rely on ...

RE: The plan is to keep the flat too

Many congrats on the new job - oh the irony of working for a travel firm and then... not having to travel!Go for it with the second property. I was surprised how easy it was for us to achieve this. We turned it all around within three months - that's...

The plan is to keep the flat too

Might be a bit ambitious, but I don't see why, we didn't spend as much as we might have done on this flat. Having a second property ought to more or less pay for itself if we rent it out, and I would consider any shortfall to be a contribution to sav...

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