*Bob*

Really? ha ha.. I might just tune in. I'll need to get kitted-out first though. Some Aviator sunglasses and a trip to the Army and Navy surplus should do the trick.

Either it's dangerous, and has the injury/fatality count to prove it so, or it isn't, in which case it was fine like it was. If you go round sticking-up three-way traffic light systems 'just in case' someone might get injured, you'll have to put one up on every 500 yards.

A shrouded figure... a withered hand... the curtains twitch... a deathly face... *AAAAAIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

downsouth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > aren't there already enough estate agents on the > strip? Hopefully some of them will go out of business. Fingers crossed!

LostThePlot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Window envelopes, council won't take them.... :-( What's under that (unread) saturday Guardian (and therefore they don't know) won't hurt 'em.

It was 'required' a year or so ago. My granny jus' love thoze thermolactyl drawers! We are still on the mailing list. Which means one catalogue roughly every 2 hours.

Reminded me of this, for some reason.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

It's hard to tell whether it's for real or a sketch from a comedy show..

My guess would be: if you have a sale agreed before The Saviour's Day which completes in the New Year then you're ok. But only the one which is agreed before Crimbo. But c'mon.. there's plenty of time to sell a house before Christmas.. you should at least have been surveyed which would rule-out any timewasters. I would consult the flyer, but alas I binned it (along with the Damart catalogue) lest I get all in a tizz about it.

It seems innocent enough. But when the game is done.. it's all car-keys-in-a-hat and glory-holes. Mark my words.

Mrs *Bob* can't stand 'Hey Ya'

At this moment, in ED, if they can't sell it for you before Christmas, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. However.. I can't remember exactly what the small print said, but I was under the impression it just had to be 'sale agreed' before Xmas.. if it completed in the New Year then you'd still be entitled?

no no NO NO NO

Not at all, Tillie - quite the opposite. One of the great things about getting a (bit) older is that you cease giving a hoot about what anyone thinks about what you want to listen to. Fantastic but unfashionable songs: The Buggles / Video Killed The Radio Star Chas n Dave - There Aint No Pleasin' You Toto / Africa The Beautiful South / Song For Whoever Joe Jackson / Be My Number Two Bon Jovi / Shot Through The Heart Phil Collins / In The Air Tonight Boney M / Painter Man Cliff Richard / Devil Woman Daniel Bedingfield / If You're Not The One Dolly and Kenny / We've Got Tonight (the best live duet you will ever hear) Madness / Michael Caine ps - I'm not a real musician either. I just make a living from writing music. It's definitely not the same thing.

I see.. I'm guessing we're probably around the same age then..

Ha Ha.. What's your 'bag' then, Brendan? (Be prepared to have your personality unfairly judged based upon the mention of a few bands)

I think you're right, Keef. Coldplay-bashing is all too easy since they've 'made it'. I remember hearing 'Yellow' and 'The Scientist'. They were good songs.. and they've had others. But if you listen to more than one at a time, you just want to throw them all down a hole and wee on them. Well I do, anyway.

WAIT...! I have an idea.. LostThePlot.. you take three of your 7 letters round to Asset so s(he) doesn't feel left-out. Then you can both march down to Foxtons together and post your unwanted mail through the door, and watch the office dogsbody get down on his hands and knees and pick them up, whilst the manager pins-up details of the hundreds of new properties they've just taken-on. That'll teach 'em!

LostThePlot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But for those of us who are not selling and > received these letters, (I received 7 - I'm not > joking!) anyone fancy joining me and gathering > them together, and then in the first week they > open, put all the damn envelopes back through > their door? Why not just pop them in the blue recycling bag and and forget about it?

Honestly.. it's really is just an estate agent. Check it out. They're not supplying munitions to African dictatorships, or 'disappearing' political activists, or burgling your houses, or stealing the food from your children's mouths (ok, the last one is debatable) but do check it out. It's just, like, houses for sale, or to rent. Like all the other Estate agents. I know they have a big glass frontage, and they have a plasma screen instead of scabby faded photographs like some of the agents have. You'll probably end-up looking at it when you're waiting for a bus. And the minis are irritating - but they're just cars, really, aren't they? Not the AIDS virus. All we had before was a brick wall and 15 other companies doing exactly the same thing.

it's only an estate agent

If 'Murphy's Mob' were to be re-made today, I expect they'd all be dead-eyed, blade-wielding, Borstal-bound merchants of death. *Sigh*, innocent times.

I'd be happy to drop them a line too.. but is there anyone out there at all who can speak up for the new system? It's bizarre.. usually it's the residents who have to twist the arm of their local council to get crossings etc put-in. But here it seems they've decided to blow the cash without anyone asking (or wanting, it seems). Unless anyone knows otherwise..?

Unfortunately, they still managed to cash-in with the self-indulgent dirge which was 'The Drugs Don't Work"

Bittersweet Symphony is a great song. Congratulations to The Rolling Stones for writing it - and retaining 100% of the copyright and royalties.