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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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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The price of housing these days is staggering to most folk over the age of 40. We remember back to the days when we bought our first flat for £1k and then moved up through a succession of properties until reaching our forever home – the 3 or 4 bedroomed detached out in a quiet village or suburb. Today’s youngsters […]
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We live in some very challenging times. This was brought home to me recently when away on a short continental break. Being amongst folk you’ve never met before and who you don’t know anything about can be exciting and invigorating. There was a really old chap and his lady wife, both in their late 80s. He had a very distinct […]
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There is definitely a thing about buying houses over here that you don’t necessarily get overseas. Particularly on the european continent. I have just got back from a short trip and saw a couple of german cities – things ar exactly the same as a visit I made in the 1990s and I was so impressed with how clean and […]
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This has been a most interesting few weeks for me. My neighbour told me last year that due to family circumstances it was very likely he and his nice quiet wife would have to move away, down towards where their grandchildren live. This wasn’t entirely unexpected as they have been running back and forth for a couple of years now, […]
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