I’ve just spent a wonderful few weeks in the States with family. I did a great deal of getting myself to various museums and galleries with the help of a certain taxi company and when I wasn’t engaged in such culterally pleasing pursuits, I lazed around in my flat watching some of the endless round of home and property based […]
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According to the press there has been a drop in the house buying figures for two quarters and in the old days (1980s to 2000s) this would generally start to panic some folk. But with everything financial, there are both sides to this. Although the housing market looks like it has stalled for a while, there will be lots of […]
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I was trying to reach the house where my podiatrist works – it’s on a housing estate; one that has been gradually extended to take in a large field, creating several small cul de sacs. The naming of these housing enclaves must have caused a flutter of amusement at the time. Knowing that developers are usually involved in submitting two […]
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I have lived in many homes, starting with family then moving out to a flat before being able to buy houses of my own. I have enough experience of older places to know what it’s like to be faced with an ever increasing list of things that feel suspect and about to break or just never worked for me in […]
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When we first leave home – usually the house our parent have brought us up in, it can be a wrench and causes us, and them, temporary anxiety and permanent money issues! To ensure we get the best for our money, we should really sit and carefully evaluate our actual needs. This is so much easier to say when sat […]
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Where I live in my lovely comfortable family home, I am constantly grateful for the space, the warmth and convenience of having a home constructed to the latest building methods available in the early 2000s! So long ago my first rented home was an attic flat in a rather run down victorian semi detached villa – the landlord lived on […]
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Our house is getting towards the 20 year old mark. We moved in as it was built – oh the excitement of waiting for the developers to complete! Everything was brand new of course and as safe and modern as it needed to be at that time. Since then we’ve not felt the need to change a great deal apart […]
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We are entering the most interesting phase of the brexit negotations now – our government is struggling to maintain its course through the choppy waters on all sides by moaning back bench MPs and the european bully boys demanding we do this, that or the other. It has made a lot of folk rather nervous and less likely to invest […]
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I think when we grow up, if we’ve had a stable upbringing, say both parents around, a comfortable home and no violent neighbours or family disruptions, it can lead us to be a little complacant about what we want when we grow up. It can be all to easy to assume we will be able to have a similar house […]
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I do love it when new neighbours move in – not something that has happened very often to me – and something I’m gradually getting used to. We all moved in together as each house was completed and gradually over the years, almost all the other 9 houses have changed hands. I didn’t really get inside the house that’s changed […]
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