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Deedee

Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 250
Location: Surrey

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 9:05 am Post subject:

Thanks Sean I really thought I was seeing things you know...It's always been my plan to move more Dorset way but sadly down there it's becoming too much out of our price range

As time moves on we are getting more bogged down here as Michael and Ryan have so many docs to see now its looking like we won't be able to go for a few years yet...We have all their treatments etc in place so a bit terrified of losing the services we fought so hard to get!!Bit of a catch 22 at the moment

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 9:50 am Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Well, if you are planning to move to Devon remember TD and I are excellent and committed dog sitters...as long as we can bring the chickens.

I was thinking of taking them with me, actually!

Anyway, you'd be no good unless you do OH sitting, too, as he won't go anywhere without them (he won't even go to the eden project for a day, and leave them with my cousin, who lives about 5 miles from it!) However, if we did move, we'd be having chickens of our own, so could come and chicken sit, if you like!

I fancy here: https://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/PSDBA110782/ (needs work!)

or here: https://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/strx999000131/ (needs plants!)

I know people do it with big houses (the grimleys? grimshaws?) but I was thinking of literally tuning one big house into two semis. I think if you did it properly (ie did all the legal buff and put up partitions and fences and door locks and things), you'd only be living next door to whoever, and not with them, as such.

Daydreaming

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 291

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 10:05 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

No swimming pool?

I did set me thinking though, about more than one family in a house. Very often these big places have at least some kind of annexe, or even seperate properties, but if you bought, say a big farmhouse, would it be economical to notionally split it into two semis? Does one big house with land cost less than two smaller houses with land? You'd need to get on - or would you? If you did the legal stuff and did divide it into two semis, people who live in them get on OK (mostly, anyway), as long as you did agree the splitting properly, and everyone had their own bit?

Sounds like an idea anyway!

WW that's exactly what I would be doing if I moved to my parents place

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 10:18 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

I fancy here: https://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/PSDBA110782/ (needs work!)

An understatement. They want money for that??

wrote:

or here: https://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/strx999000131/ (needs plants!)

GBP240K for a 16-year lease, and in need of remedial work???

I knew prices in Blighty were silly, but that is ridiculous. Come to the cock-pit of Europe, your money goes a lot further and the beer is better.

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:02 am Post subject:
And great chips and chocolate Peter.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:04 am Post subject:
OK, there's the beer and the chips and the chocolate. But apart from that, what have the Belgians ever done for us?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:05 am Post subject:
And some of that beer could knock out a horse

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:09 am Post subject:
Westmalle Trippel IIRC!

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:15 am Post subject:

Anybody who knows me well is aware that I get strong and regular pangs of sadness because I don't live in the West Country any more. So much so that I seriously think about going back there and buying a business. Some members of another certain forum may remember our first meet, and we stayed at a pub called the Old Inn in Hawkchurch, on the Devon/Dorset border. Well, it is on the market, as a free house with 4 bed accomodation, three en-suite letting rooms and a detached 2 bed bungalow. �550,000 and it is just 4 miles from Lyme. It is possible that I could buy this and make it your dream pub. But I won't. Just yet.

https://www.hawkchurch.com/html/_details.html

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:16 am Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

And great chips and chocolate

Peter.

Chocolate, yes - not that I eat much of the stuff. I prefer British chippie chips to Belgian friterie frites. And chippies have decent fish, whereas friteries just have burgers and kebabs and fatty foul-tasting sausages (and that's in Wallonie, in Flanders the food is worse). On the other hand, the Moule-Frites tends to be excellent, but you need a bistro for those.

Even our home-made chips are not very nice. We only buy Bintjes, because they are the only potato that Terri and I both like. They are fantastic boiled, mashed and roasted, but do not chip well.

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:18 am Post subject:

Judith wrote:

OK, there's the beer and the chips and the chocolate. But apart from that, what have the Belgians ever done for us?

Hercule Poirot?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:18 am Post subject:

Twoscoops wrote:

But I won't. Just yet.

Dunno how you're restraining yourself

Daydreaming

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 291

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:22 am Post subject:
Twoscoops it's beautiful.

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:25 am Post subject:
Isn't it, though? And I've stayed there, so i've a bit more of an idea than the last one I was interested in!!!The village is stunning, and quite high up so not much of a flood risk. Needless to say the surrounding countryside is breathtaking.

Daydreaming

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 291

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 11:34 am Post subject:
Must be something major holding you back

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