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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Cookery programmes interspersed with charity ads.  
    Actually it's probably a really good ploy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I am under attack from the weather, massive thunderstorm and lashings of rain!  My NDN is unloading his new summerhouse from one of those massive stabilised crane lorries - everyone is getting very wet  :# 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    NDN?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    next door neighbour
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Next Door Neighbour - building a summerhouse big enough to rent to a family!
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Next Door Neighbour - building a summerhouse big enough to rent to a family!

    Our neighbour has done the same and their parents are now living there.  Timber cabin 11 metres by 4 metres.  Thankfully a very long garden.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I've just received a letter from one of my pension funds saying that entitlement calculations been wrong for a number of years.  In some years there was an  underpayment and in other years an overpayment of up to about 3%.  They can't recover the overpayments but must compensate me for the underpayments, plus interest.  End result is a nice little windfall which will cover the cost of two breaks we have booked in the UK for later this year.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Is that allowed?  Planning permission?  Housing control?  Building standards?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I neither know nor care @Obelixx, they are really lovely people for which I am grateful. They replace a wonderful neighbour of almost 50 years so just pleased they are OK.

    Weather has moved on and now bright sunshine so - doors and windows open I can hear them clearly, there seems to be some discussion about which bits are floor, walls and roof. This could take a while, time for some loud music I'm thinking.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Not any more @Obelixx. It's to boost the economy -apparently.
    Some of our betters will be having reinforcement sewn into their back pockets.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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