SteveG
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If its Tomintoul buy a big snow shovel to dig yourself out
I am most certainly looking forward to being snowed in - especially as I'm told they folks at the Lecht keep the road from Tomintoul open!
If its Tomintoul buy a big snow shovel to dig yourself out
It even has some musical connections as it used to be owned by Pye Hastings from Caravan and still has his former studio in the garden.
Stay out of the Whisky Castle, it’ll ruin you..
Sounds great! What's left of the studio? Do we get pictures?
What a bloody nightmare this is , At least 6 homes I have shown intrest in have sold almost instantly
One yesterday that I phoned about told me the earliest I could view is next wednesday, I asked why ? Because we have 3 viewings today , 3 on Friday and more next week , I confirmed the booking , At midday I had a phone call saying the property is now sold so your viewing is now cancelled ,Oh dear
What a bloody nightmare this is , At least 6 homes I have shown intrest in have sold almost instantly
One yesterday that I phoned about told me the earliest I could view is next wednesday, I asked why ? Because we have 3 viewings today , 3 on Friday and more next week , I confirmed the booking , At midday I had a phone call saying the property is now sold so your viewing is now cancelled ,Oh dear
Not much consolation but it really does feel like an unusual market at the moment with a lot of pent-up demand over the past year overheating things.
It's just a big empty space at the moment, but here it is with Ludo providing some scale:
Those rugs really...etc...etc
The studio is pretty big and I've not decided what to use it for yet.
I heard Mrs SG was planning on having it as a naughty step, with the heating turned off of course.The studio is pretty big and I've not decided what to use it for yet.
I heard Mrs SG was planning on having it as a naughty step, with the heating turned off of course.
It looks about 6m x 6m, at a guess. Double garage size. I doubt a proposal of bike maintenance workshop would fly with the powers that be, though.
I think I was using a very wife angle 14mm lens
I did find a picture online from a few years back of Pye in the studio though:
Torquay is a superb value place to live but can be pricy, I was salivating over a 3 million pound place in wellswood recently. Been watching the property market there for 10 years now . At one point it overtook the Midlands but now the Midlands has exceeded it. Some tremendous places to live and walking on walls hill in the sunshine 2 weeks ago was like Corfu . I love the place and were it not for my wife not wanting to go back there I would go. No doubt there will be other fishies who can advise . I rather like teignmouth and dawlish too although prices are a bit steep in dawlish .I've been reading the thread with interest, I hope you find something suitable soon @AudioAl
My wife and I are also planning to move out (London) though not for another 18/24 months by which time we hope that things may have calmed down - reading recent comments, I really cannot see things continuing as they are. We're planning to sell up and then move to where we're looking and rent for several months - get to know the agents and hopefully be in a situation where we hear of properties before they go on the likes of R/move and the like.
Initially we were looking at Dorset and Wareham in particular - I worked in Poole many many years ago and would always head over to Purbeck for days out. For the last twenty or so years, the Isle of Purbeck has been our summer camping trip, staying for two of three weeks. We've fallen in love with Wareham - several pubs and a direct train to London. Prices have massively jumped though and whilst there last summer, we felt some massive resentment by some of the younger people living there, not directed at us, but generally about house prices etc. It did make us think - not knowing anyone - albeit we're very sociable and make friends easy, we did wonder whether we might prefer being in a bigger place.
We're now looking around Torquay/Bay - we've a couple of good friends that live there so have that social side - it's also a much bigger place, there's a hospital (for an underlying health issue of mine) and the sea! We think this is where we'll now end up - we still like Wareham and will be back camping that way this August, maybe there will be our longer term retirement place...