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 →
A bit of rubber brightens a rainy afternoon
Oops. Got a phone call from Hope Hospital, had I forgotten to take back the heart monitor. Buggar, I knew there was something.Popped it back en route to Lightbox in Manchester to use up a voucher for some wall lights, it's a wonder they let me, as the return was from Jan 08. Wasn't dated... Continue Reading →
House prices drop by 30%? They have round here
Gutted to hear about another amazing family home being sold in Fallowfield, just up the road from us, for an absolute song - £295K to developers / landlords who are likely to ram it full of students and generally rip the heart out of it. 18 months ago, the same type of house was going... Continue Reading →
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