Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Withnail

Withnail

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Hold up...

You have Hooded Crows?

Why don't we have Hooded Crows?

Also, that's a Rook on your chimney.

Seriously, though, how the f does Eire get Hooded Crows and we don't?
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Gramaisc said:
Are you sure it wasn't a long-tailed tit?

They can be bastards - they plagued me for months.

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Some tits are trying to break into my house.

They are the long-tailed variety and have spent most of the last two days trying to knock a way through the bay windows, both upstairs and down. They may have been at it longer, as I've been away. They seem quite determined. Is this normal? The pair of them were hammering on the bedroom window...
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Googling .. They look like Eurasian blue tits.

I have to stand by the front window to get a decent phone signal , and they quite often sit on the 2 hydrangea bushes outside the window looking at me.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Withnail said:
Hold up...

You have Hooded Crows?

Why don't we have Hooded Crows?

Also, that's a Rook on your chimney.

Seriously, though, how the f does Eire get Hooded Crows and we don't?
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Brexit bonus?

Pretty much anything black and feathery is a 'crow' here, unless it's a blackbird.

Like stoats are weasels and there are no weasels, etc.
 
staffordjas

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Not yet. Valuation & photos booked in so that it's ready to be whacked on as soon as we give the go ahead . Need to get a rough idea of price range we can splash out on. Good houses in a good area are hell of a lot more expensive down there and going super fast!
 
tek-monkey

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staffordjas said:
Not yet. Valuation & photos booked in so that it's ready to be whacked on as soon as we give the go ahead . Need to get a rough idea of price range we can splash out on. Good houses in a good area are hell of a lot more expensive down there and going super fast!
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Its a good time to sell, not buy. Thought about renting for 6 months to allow more time to choose?
 
Gramaisc

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(Probably) just paid last year's tax, after weeks of "If you haven't paid yet" texts and emails.

If they really don't know if I've paid or not, it seems hardly worth giving it to them, and they'll only let Johnson and his school chums steal it, anyway.
 
Lucy

Lucy

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Gramaisc said:
(Probably) just paid last year's tax, after weeks of "If you haven't paid yet" texts and emails.

If they really don't know if I've paid or not, it seems hardly worth giving it to them, and they'll only let Johnson and his school chums steal it, anyway.
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I got one of those texts today, which immediately made me doubt whether I'd paid mine like I thought I had last Friday.
 
Mudgie

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staffordjas said:
The agent for the house I liked last week has just said it went for over 30k more than asking price.
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The problem is the extremely low interest rates of the last thirteen years causing many of those with reasonable savings to switch from a Building Society account to buying a property or two to rent out which has happened to such an extent that demand for houses and their prices has risen considerably such that far fewer potential young buyers nowadays can get on the housing ladder and so more are renting causing prices to rise yet further.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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joshua said:
Good god, that's a new profit for the owners, any chance of putting up a link so we can see what was so attractive about it
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I'd really like a nice big detatched , but that would break the bank down there.

Son's advising which are the less desirable areas , heavily uni student (rowdy party-land ) populated areas , and flood risk areas to steer well clear of.

Any 'bargain price' looking ones are usually in one of those 'to avoid' areas.
 
Gramaisc

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On the basis that the current 'summer' must end at some point, and to fill in a few more roads on my "cycled at least once" map, I set out on a circuitous route. I had to break my general rule of "all things being equal, head out into the wind and come back with it" - this resulted in the turn back from the farthest point being up one of the few long, steep hills around and into the teeth of what now seemed like a gale. Getting all the way back, if I attempted the full intended route, did not seem a 100% certainty any more. so I dropped a few roads off the route - they can be done later...

At the top of the hill, I did find respite from the wind to have my lunch - and did feel a good bit more positive after that.

There were a lot of people there, but it wasn't busy.

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staffordjas

staffordjas

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With son at work and uncontactable at the time , booked a viewing in a part he'd told me to avoid but the house photos looked nice (so thought I'd go and compare it to another house we've booked a viewing for in a nicer area on the same day , to see what's out there for the money)... son was rather "Hmmm :hmm:, not a nice area to walk out in" when I told him tonight.

I've just 'walked' the little yellow streetview man around the 'dodgy' area to find the way to it, and even he was scared ! :lol:
 
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