WTF-Beta

A somewhat remote, lovely home

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/89602920

And a bit pricey

He can afford them now

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gardiner

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Ordinary looking but highly scented.

Looks like a traditional lead roof that will last for decades.
Be nice to sit up there.

Got these this week:

Since we moved out of London over four years ago, this octagonal Queen Anne house is one of only three houses I've seen on the market that I would go visit with a view to buying.
Not that we can afford it.

A sister of mine likes to sofa-househunt and regularly sends me such fabulous expensive property blurbs.

Where's Daniel?

One thing that you may have to decide with refurbished is whether to buy with all original brand replacements or cheaper third party.
I decided third party rather than all Samsung refurbished parts.
You don't know what has been changed anyway. Screen, camera glass, & battery are most likely?

(It a bit like buying a used car. I've never checked to see if the tyres are the same brand as the car originally came with from the factory. Anyway I always buy cheaper mid-range tyres, usually made in Turkey)

Snickers

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90772785#/&channel=RES_BUY

Wanna live near Liverpool? This house has a rather nice room for a piano

Apple deals, no thanks.
If you're happy to keep and look after your mobile why buy into an expensive rolling contract just for a new phone every year?

Here's my UK solution.
Last month I had to buy a replacement mobile after 6 years or more, due to battery expansion; bought a refurbished Samsung S24 online (there's a 25 and 26 etc already on sale, but little difference) costing £480, minus 80 for my old Samsung 10note+ which I sent by post (that 400 quid is about half the price of a new S24 and a third of their S26).
And I still consider £400 an outrageous cost, despite using it as phone, laptop, camera, calculator, bank, and its pen writing note function almost daily.
My monthly sim cost is £6.72.
I had to buy a new leather phone wallet, £31, which holds my cards.

Guess the piano piece from the first note.
Starts easy

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1RDW7oREPT/

On the plus side we've had no rain in Durham for 23 days, and the moss on our roof is dead & falling off.
(we were quoted £2k for two days work removal and spraying)

1 in 292million !
Euro lottery is 1 in 140 million
UK lottery is 1 in 70 million

London and south of England has had no rain for 34 days and a hosepipe ban was started yesterday.

I shall watch more of her videos.

Yes.
But.
(Rambling ranting reply...)

She needs to get a proper job.
Something "less unique". Or should that be more unique?

Maybe realise she's hitting a mid-life change, needs to cut down on her screen time and take up some fulfilling hobbies.

I was thinking at one point in the video, when did all new pianos become naturally black unless you pay significantly more. Not that I yearn for 1960s yellow and blue bathroom suites, or 1970s avocado, or curtains in orange and brown, 1980's gold taps and turquoise patterned carpets. Please allow me to be rather selective in my takes from the past. Art deco yes, Louis quinze no.

I was also thinking where she fits on Maslow's

This romanticising of past things and lives is mostly folly, however fascinating and entertaining we may find our history.

While I'd like to live for a few years in New York between 1939 and 1942, I know my accommodation would be small and dirty, people would be rough and sexist and smelly.
They'd have running water and electricity by then, but for starters, how'd you wash and dry your clothes.

I wouldn't trade my life as a librarian for my grandfathers' lives as pit hewers. Or for their grandfathers' lives as farm labourers.

So yes. But.
Jane Austen observed over two hundred years ago,
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness"

Here's to the next ten 🥳