What are you doing today??

So 1.1 tons of fuel, lot of weight if not supported right...

My old one was on brick pillars like that but it was steel and held 2500 litres, I never used to put more than 1000 litres in at a time though. Buggers come in the night and syphon it out hence new one is right by my back door where the dog sleeps. Current price in UK is £336 a ton, about half what it was last year. Those boilers are now over 2k, jeez.

We've got wee Brodie with us. He had a sleepover last night. Poor wee soul has got the runs, washing machines doing overtime.

and mop

Just sent off an enquiry about an apartment in Edinburgh for 3 nights next March.

Wont need aircon then

Should be a balmy -10°C then...

changed the carbon brushes on the washing machine today. Left it for a minute while I went to get pliers from my van.



Note to self: Don't let Eileen turn on any feckin switches if I'm not there

She's after your life insurance...

just booked this place for 3 nights towards end of March

here

  Looks nice D    You have more holidays than Campbell Whicker 

Wow! Fantastic!

We were looking at a place on off Dalry Road on the west side of Edinburgh but this place was only 25 quid more so the kids wrecked me hid for the last half hour until I gave in . I was going to book it anyway but its good to string them along for a while 

Mcqueen wrote:  Looks nice D    You have more holidays than Campbell Whicker 

We go for 2 little breaks and the main holidays each year ( if funds allow). This apartment costs less for 3 nights ( even allowing for strong Sterling) than the 2 nights we spent in Clifden last weekend. On top of those breaks, we go down to Kerry @ 3 or 4 times a year ( to my Dad's house), but normally there is work involved in those trips so I don't know if they count 

£25 is reasonable 

I get 45 minutes in April, 90 minutes in September and a whole hour and 30 minutes over Christmas,

I'm surprised a dashing entrepreneur like yourself would take that much time off??? 

I always feel guilty but hey ho,

Looked at them flats when they were new, was looking at it as an investment, thank feck I didn't go ahead with it, property crash hit a few months later, prices dropped by £200,000, folks who had bought pre the crash were well pissed off, was a lot on the net about it, some of the smaller one/two bedrooms flats were being snatched up by investors, you were getting two or three for the previous price of one...

Strange thing was the car parks after crash, Porches etc obviously belonging to the ones with money who at a guess I would say bought pre the crash, and scruffy Ford Fiestas probably owned by those who picked up a bargain or rent...

3rdforum wrote:changed the carbon brushes on the washing machine today. Left it for a minute while I went to get pliers from my van.



Note to self: Don't let Eileen turn on any feckin switches if I'm not there

Rents are generally the same no matter, so its only a matter of time, one day you drive past something you looked at and think Blox i should have, Hind sight innit, but you die anyway so WTF
Yuppie flats in Leeds went mental ,Friends of mine got involved and got burnt, but they wish they had them now, Dont panic is the thing

A few years ago,during the property crash,  my brother's pal bought 3 semi-d houses in a town where MBNA Credit Cards had their European HQ ( providing 1600 jobs in a town of 6000 people ). Yer man bought the houses at auction. Guide price was 75000 each, down from their previous high of 200 grand. He ended up buying 3 house for a total of 125,000. Delighted with himself, he brought the brother down to see them. "What are you going to do with them" asked Jim ( my brother ). "I'm going to rent them to the MBNA workers" says yer man. "You haven't seen the paper today then" said Jim. There was a headline on one of the inner pages "MBNA bought by Spanish giant, Avantcard" "Irish Subsidiary To Close". The same lad has been sitting on them for 4 or 5 years now, can't sell them, no one to rent them to. Houses going into disrepair.