Bob Buzzard

Yes, I think marking the passage from light to dark in the Autumn is an ancient festival.

Just in case anyone wants to know - the predominant towel type used by native Swedes on my visit was white and fluffy. And they all speak fluent English.

My youngest son went out with his friends trick or treating this evening and someone gave him a Fry's chocolate cream! To an 11 year old boy? Who would do that? Surely it's just Haribos and such like tonight?

Sleep

Loutwo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And whilst all this is going on, the debt ridden > Pizza Express finds itself in big trouble. Is > pizza saturation point causing its demise? > > Louisa. Wasn't that my point about the debt ridden Pizza Express?

Aren't they part of the debt-ridden Pizza Express?

...and they have those proper bottles of olive oil - the cold first pressings of extra virgin from Emilia-Romagna for about ?16 - so none of those greasy vegetable oils.

Thank goodness for that - Mrs Bob won't need to go to food shopping to Beckenham anymore.

Altered priorities ahead - at last someone knows who I am!

My house is massive since it's been extended, plus I'll be annexing my neighbour's back garden soon, and I'm a liberal remainer, who believes all companies should be run on a John Lewis partnership style approach.

Spark

Is anyone planning to go to the March for the EU in mid-October in Central London? I'm going and wondered if anyone fancied making a peloton to go there and protest together? If so I could meet you at the Cheese Block at about 9ish?

New neighbours next door and at night I keep hearing a rhythmic knocking sound and groans and moans from upstairs - I'm worried one of them is having fits at night. Mrs Bob says not to worry myself about it.

Yes, they will be in prison until their 80. I'll knock this idea on the head - I might get arrested.

I?ve really loved season 3 of Top Boy on Netflix - their activities of selling food seemed quite lucrative so I wondered if I could join one of the local crews to sell food with them? I did go down to Peckham and tried to fist bump some likely looking people standing around in the market areas and greeted them with ?Wah Gwaan?, but they just either looked at me weirdly or told me to go away (using an expletive).

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You are obviously a man of means Bob and your > efforts to satisfy Mrs Bob?s desires are to be > commended. So far be it for me to advise you how > to spend your money. > > However, have you considered going ?high-tech? and > buying some virtual reality goggles? On Monday Mrs > Bob could survey the Grand Canyon from your loft. > Tuesday, while enjoying a cuppa in your side > extension she could be monitoring the surf on > Bondi Beach and Wednesday, enjoying the sights and > sounds of the Amazon Rain Forest from the safety > of your conservatory. And so on. Just a thought. I like the idea but Mrs Bob is a bit of a technophobe.

Just had a thought - my neighbours probably have a mortgage on their house, hence whey they won?t sell me their garden, but I could offer to pay off their mortgage (I bet it?s only small like 2-300K or so) and as part of the deal I?d also annex their garden (I?d leave them with a patio / decking no area). I?ll try and doorstep them in the morning with my new proposal.

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm wondering what Bob is considering for > Christmas dinner this year? No doubt we will soon > find out. > > Ptarmigan is very popular I hear. Ah Christmas, yes sorted already, my brother (who lives on CPR) has booked for us to go to the Crown & Greyhound in DV for Christmas dinner - so no pork medallions this year.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why don't you persuade Mrs Bob to have 10 more > children and we might have some sympathy for your > 'lack of space' I?ve got three already and all at a fee-paying school, so that?s enough for the moment?

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not go the whole hog and make an offer on the > house and garden? You could then resell the house > without the garden. That?s also a good idea I hadn?t thought of yet, it?s just one of those terraced houses on Glengarry Road so I could afford to buy it, but I?m not sure Mrs Bob would like me spending all that cash just to buy an additional bit of garden, but maybe she could be persuaded?

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think if you enclose it with a 10 ft wall > ,access only possible via your garden and use it > for about 12 years you would get ownership by > adverse possesion . > > Would suggest you get wall built while they are > out at work ,have one of those "wraps" that > replicate the orginal installed to the rear of > their house and they'll never notice or challenge > the land grab . > > This lot > https://graphics.cunninghamcovers.co.uk/building-w > rap do stuff on the scale I think you'll need . > > And don't overlook the potential of air rights in > your quest to improve your home . ?Adverse possession? is that a real thing? Could I do that? I don?t want to cause any bother. The other thing I thought about was a shepherd?s hut in my garden with a log burner? Plus I?m also planning to get a brick pizza oven built in the garden (my garden, not the neighbour?s).

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob Buzzard Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Steady on - it's a reasonable proposition isn't > > it? > > It depends bob. Is it theirs to sell? Do they have > a mortgage? If so your ?15k could disappear down > the drain. > > But I?m sure you?ve done due diligence despite an > uncharacteristic lack of judgement wasting money > on artisan butter. Good point - I?d forgotten some people have mortgages and that you can't seek bits of a property if it?s mortgaged. I thought they just didn?t like me and were just saying no to me, but it?s probably because their mortgage Ts&Cs prevents them from selling their garden to me - how disappointing.

I think you just have to think flexibly when the Building Regs Compliance Officer comes round to their inspection.

Steady on - it's a reasonable proposition isn't it?

Mrs Bob says we need to expand more - in our double fronted 5-bed we've already done the loft, extended out to the side, added a conservatory and tanked the cellar, so I thought about enlarging our garden by buying our neighbour's adjacent back garden. I have asked them to sell it to us for ?10000, but they have said no. I don't know why because they don't use it much - they only seem to sit in it during the summer months and only cut their grass every 3 weeks or so. I know they need the money because I see them go out to work every day. I did think getting a compulsory purchase order, but my mate Mick down The Castle says I can't do that? Shall I up my offer to ?15k instead?