Off to do 3 viewings now, one on an empty 1 bed and 2 on Project BB, pleasepleaseprettyplease let one be let!! It's such a trauma when they are empty, in the good times I never thought about it, it was just a hazard of the job, having short vacant periods, but now it's like,... Continue Reading →
No,I haven’t been shopping, honest
Look, Mart, I know I said I wasn't going to go shopping and I didn't go anywhere near the Trafford Centre. This old thing, christ, I've had its aaaaaages, since the 80's, can't you tell from the body con look?! Herve Leger? Is it heck. It's Top Shop! You've seen it on Net-a-porter? You've checked my... Continue Reading →
Green shoots?
Chatting with some Didsbury estate agents yesterday about the local property market and they are adamant things are getting better, though whether this is simply relative to how bad things were, I don't know. More sensible offers are being made, they say, not the unbelieveably cheeky ones they have seen over the last few months,... Continue Reading →
Property tip: Oak mantelpiece from reclaimed timber
I always have bits and pieces of timber lying around the cellar.... house.... garden.... well, anywhere really, and they come in useful when something unusual is called for. I get them from building sites, tree surgeons, all sorts of places. Mr M whistles the theme from Steptoe and Son at me when I bring home... Continue Reading →
Haggling at B&Q and Lush Living Etc paints
Project Ballbrook is almost complete, a quick tickle of a rental flat which has turned into a newly tiled bathroom, full redecoration, new kitchen work tops and lots of added bits, sorely needed in what had become an unrentable apartment. Well, unrentable at a decent price, and some of the would be tenants who viewed and didn't take... Continue Reading →
And they were DOCTORS!!! do they not know about bacteria???
How in god's name can our hospitals be expected to be clean when trainee doctors are happy to live in filth like this??!! 3 girls as well.... Dirty Gertys. You could catch MRSA from this bloody flat. You wanna be a landlord.... get used to seeing your properties in this state! This shower was so... Continue Reading →
Kelly Hoppen in The Sunday Times – refreshingly honest
Reading about Kelly Hoppen's life is a bit like dreaming about another interior galaxy far far away from the one I inhabit; the closest I got to her life this week was finding a lush chocolate brown paint in B&Q called Rum Caramel 1 to paint two Ikea shelves and a Lack coffee table. She... Continue Reading →
