WUN wrote:

> Mrs WUN went to Stevenage earlier, and the knuckle draggers were
> queueing back onto the hard-shoulder of the A1M...

On Friday I drove Brighton - Westbury and nearly accidentally joined
the queue from the petrol station that had backed up onto the dual
carriageway - twice.

--
Simon

Stephen Packer wrote:

> > plus, from my observations in my travels, supermarkets are getting
> > restocked more often as they already have the logisitics, and
> > employ their own drivers, so cope better with increased demand
>
> Where's SteveH, maybe he might have some insight[1]?
>
> [1] Not take away their passports or send them all home.

I think they did - that's part of the problem...

Part of the problem, the main part is they've made it such a shit job
no-one wants to do it.

Everything being cheap comes at a cost.

--
Simon

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 13:05:38 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>My next door neighbours bought in 2012. They have just agreed a sale and
>are fucking off back to Poland with the proceeds. One less bus driver, one
>less owner of a domestic cleaning business and one less child to help
>counteract the demographic time bomb due to a reducing birth rate in the
>UK. Good luck to them as they are going to be set up nicely with a nest egg
>after nearly 20 years in the UK.

<glum>
And there's the tragedy of brexit in a nutshell
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 03/10/2021 12:30, Stephen Packer wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>
>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>> It's now worth $800k.
>
> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].

1st house was circa 1985.
2 bed terrace. £13750

Sold for £23000 in 1989.

2nds house, 3 bed semi. (1989) £42500

Still there....... zoopla reckons £180,000

CBA moving, too much hassle and cost involved.
>
> I sold it in 1999 for £75k.
>
> It was next sold in Oct 2016 for £295k (from the outside no significant renovation
> was done and there hasn't been evidence of much work over the years, I pass it
> now and again).
>
> Current estimate is about £360k.
>
> It was a stretch when we bought it (and I was lucky to have inherited a significant sum).

2nd house killed us financially for a few years as the rates went up to 15%.

> I think my partner and I had a joint income of about 15k when we bought, so roughly
> four years (pre-tax) income[2]- but we were both modestly paid at the time, average salary
> was around 12k so two incomes give around three years of pre-tax income to pay for it.

1st house I was on about £7500, but could make it to £9500 with over time.

2nd house I was on £12500, no over time. Jean did bar work and then
child minding to get us through.

Then I made my 1st step up to EKS for 4.5 years before Sun brought me
back down to earth for a while.

>
> But now? Average salary around 30k, assume two of those and it's around six years
> pre-tax income. The cost of buying a specific house has probably doubled in terms of
> required pre-tax income and more than doubled when you include the fact that tax-relief
> has been removed.
>
> The 'system' is broken and I can understand the anger towards the boomers[3].
>
> [1] A friend bought something similar in 1983. He paid around 40k.
> [2] And we got tax relief on mortgage payments...

Ohh, yes, I remember MIRAS

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On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
<bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:

>On 03/10/2021 12:30, Stephen Packer wrote:
>> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>>
>>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>>> It's now worth $800k.
>>
>> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
>> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>
>1st house was circa 1985.
>2 bed terrace. £13750

First flat 1988, one bed, £74500.
Downstairs sold theirs after a year for £52k.
Sold eventually in 2000 for £104k
>
>Sold for £23000 in 1989.
>
>2nds house, 3 bed semi. (1989) £42500

House 4 bed terrace. 1999. £153k
4 bed is a bit of a con.
One bedroom has a desk and the computers in it, another has two
wardrobes and a chest of drawers.
>
>Still there....... zoopla reckons £180,000

Ditto, except, and this is the madness that is London:

£827-£914k

For the first four years we lived here, the house "earned" more than
we did.

Six houses, in a row, all bought in Feb 1999, same owners.
>
>CBA moving, too much hassle and cost involved.

I'm keen to release some equity and go a bit rural, but I'm in a
minority.
--
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Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
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On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 12:30:09 PM UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>
> > I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
> > house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
> > beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
> > My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91..
> > It's now worth $800k.
> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].

I've only ever bought one house (technically twice, once in partnership with
my parents, I didn't live in it for many years, renting places as I moved around.
Then when Mum died I bought my Dad's half at the going rate). I still live in it,
and expect to leave it for the final time feet first.

--
WUN

On Sunday, 3 October 2021 at 22:37:22 UTC+1, WUN wrote:

> I've only ever bought one house (technically twice, once in partnership with
> my parents, I didn't live in it for many years, renting places as I moved around.
> Then when Mum died I bought my Dad's half at the going rate). I still live in it,
> and expect to leave it for the final time feet first.

Well, two houses but same here about feet first, or maybe head first, who knows.

Occasionally I think about moving but then I think about emptying two garages,
three sheds, part of a barn, part of a nissin hut, two greenhouses, the attic... and
then feel a little tired and need to sit down.

Mentioning feet first. My grandfather (mother's side) was a farmer but in his younger
days also helped out an undertaker from time to time. On one of these times, the
deceased was in a bedroom at the top of a set of spiral stairs. After some thinking
it was agreed the only way of getting the deceased down was slinging them over
someone's shoulder and carrying them down the narrow spiral stairs like that.

My grandfather did the carrying. Part way down I guess the movement caused
'things' to get a little lively and the corpse farted (while on my grandfather's
shoulder), his view was 'if the dirty bugger had enough life in him to do that,
he had enough life in him to walk down on his own'...

On 03/10/2021 21:05 wessie penned these words:
> My next door neighbours bought in 2012. They have just agreed a sale and
> are fucking off back to Poland with the proceeds. One less bus driver, one
> less owner of a domestic cleaning business and one less child to help
> counteract the demographic time bomb due to a reducing birth rate in the
> UK. Good luck to them as they are going to be set up nicely with a nest egg
> after nearly 20 years in the UK.
>

Can't say I blame them. I *don't* want to live in the current version of england
for them it must be so much worse. I've seen this tale repeated elsewhere. All
things being equal I am thinking of selling my UK gaff and using the capital as
an adjunct to my pensions.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On 03/10/2021 19:30 Stephen Packer penned these words:
> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>
> I sold it in 1999 for £75k.

Made me look. £27k in 1983 last sold in 2005 for £205k but is being estimated at
£350k. I was an impecunious technician I have a vague recollection of bringing
home just over £100 a week, the ex was working in a double glazing shop. Looks
like T2A is ~£28k or so now.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
<bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:

>> [2] And we got tax relief on mortgage payments...

>Ohh, yes, I remember MIRAS

It's still in place hear on the IoM. Limited to basic rate (10%) tho
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 15:38:47 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
<stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sunday, 3 October 2021 at 22:37:22 UTC+1, WUN wrote:

>> I still live in it, and expect to leave it for the final time feet first.

>Well, two houses but same here about feet first, or maybe head first, who knows.

I was wondering about WUN's statement. Is it traditional for the dead
to be carried out in such an orientation?
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 03/10/2021 21:48, Salad Dodger wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 03/10/2021 12:30, Stephen Packer wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>>>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>>>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>>>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>>>> It's now worth $800k.
>>>
>>> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
>>> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>>
>> 1st house was circa 1985.
>> 2 bed terrace. £13750
>
> First flat 1988, one bed, £74500.
> Downstairs sold theirs after a year for £52k.
> Sold eventually in 2000 for £104k
>>
>> Sold for £23000 in 1989.
>>
>> 2nds house, 3 bed semi. (1989) £42500
>
> House 4 bed terrace. 1999. £153k
> 4 bed is a bit of a con.
> One bedroom has a desk and the computers in it, another has two
> wardrobes and a chest of drawers.

Do you have a garage?
(That was one main reason I bought this one)

>>
>> Still there....... zoopla reckons £180,000
>
> Ditto, except, and this is the madness that is London:
>
> £827-£914k
>
> For the first four years we lived here, the house "earned" more than
> we did.
>
> Six houses, in a row, all bought in Feb 1999, same owners.
>>
>> CBA moving, too much hassle and cost involved.
>
> I'm keen to release some equity and go a bit rural, but I'm in a
> minority.
>

To go rural would not be an equity release for me.

Actually, daft thing is, St Helens is near as damn rural. We are 10 mins
from farm fields and many paths. With pubs. Saturday was a 7 mile and 2
pub walk.

It has so many upsides[1] here that it often cancels out thoughts of moving.

[1] Access to M-way network, trains to Liverpool (saves on motorbikes),
trains to Manchester, trains to Manc Airport, two airports in easy
reach, trains to Scotland and that there London.

--
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On 03/10/2021 22:37, WUN wrote:
> On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 12:30:09 PM UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>>
>>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>>> It's now worth $800k.
>> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
>> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>
> I've only ever bought one house (technically twice, once in partnership with
> my parents, I didn't live in it for many years, renting places as I moved around.
> Then when Mum died I bought my Dad's half at the going rate). I still live in it,
> and expect to leave it for the final time feet first.
>

<thinks>
Every time I step out the door it is feet 1st.
</t>

--
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On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:46:34 AM UTC+1, YTC#1 wrote:
> On 03/10/2021 22:37, WUN wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 12:30:09 PM UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
> >
> <thinks>
> Every time I step out the door it is feet 1st.
> </t>

I've launched in through the door on occasion, with various parts of the body trying to race each other.

Normally after a few flagons of rattler or summat simlar'.

On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 08:45:07 +0100, YTC#1
<bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:

>On 03/10/2021 21:48, Salad Dodger wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
>> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/10/2021 12:30, Stephen Packer wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>>>>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>>>>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>>>>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>>>>> It's now worth $800k.
>>>>
>>>> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
>>>> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>>>
>>> 1st house was circa 1985.
>>> 2 bed terrace. £13750
>>
>> First flat 1988, one bed, £74500.
>> Downstairs sold theirs after a year for £52k.
>> Sold eventually in 2000 for £104k
>>>
>>> Sold for £23000 in 1989.
>>>
>>> 2nds house, 3 bed semi. (1989) £42500
>>
>> House 4 bed terrace. 1999. £153k
>> 4 bed is a bit of a con.
>> One bedroom has a desk and the computers in it, another has two
>> wardrobes and a chest of drawers.
>
>Do you have a garage?
>(That was one main reason I bought this one)

We do. It's *almost* big enough to put a car in.

Several have been converted to an additional downstairs room. Some by
simple erecting a wall of blocks behind the door, others by doing it
properly, with bricks and a window.

>>>
>>> CBA moving, too much hassle and cost involved.
>>
>> I'm keen to release some equity and go a bit rural, but I'm in a
>> minority.
>>
>
>To go rural would not be an equity release for me.

Even in Kent, I could get a substantial property for 75% of the value
of this place. As it stands, it's not really ours, we're just living
in it until our nieces and nephews get it.
>
>Actually, daft thing is, St Helens is near as damn rural. We are 10 mins
>from farm fields and many paths. With pubs. Saturday was a 7 mile and 2
>pub walk.

Noticed this when I visited my grandad's grave in May.
>
>It has so many upsides[1] here that it often cancels out thoughts of moving.
>
>[1] Access to M-way network, trains to Liverpool (saves on motorbikes),
>trains to Manchester, trains to Manc Airport, two airports in easy
>reach, trains to Scotland and that there London.

Everywhere is reachable from the bus stop 100m away. The DLR is 300m.
ASDA's walkable, as is the doctors. Also, I'll have a free Oyster card
in eight weeks. Anywhere on TfL's network, for free.
--
Salad Dodger
1690 FLHTK;GL1800D
Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
KH500A8;KH250B3;TS250c;TS185c.

Stephen Packer wrote:
> On Friday, 1 October 2021 at 10:19:41 UTC+1, wessie wrote:
>> plus, from my observations in my travels, supermarkets are getting
>> restocked more often as they already have the logisitics, and employ their
>> own drivers, so cope better with increased demand
>
> Where's SteveH, maybe he might have some insight[1]?
>
> [1] Not take away their passports or send them all home.

He was quoted on the BBC news website.

On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 5:09:37 PM UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, 1 October 2021 at 10:19:41 UTC+1, wessie wrote:
> > plus, from my observations in my travels, supermarkets are getting
> > restocked more often as they already have the logisitics, and employ their
> > own drivers, so cope better with increased demand
> Where's SteveH, maybe he might have some insight[1]?
>
> [1] Not take away their passports or send them all home.

Probably screaming with a red sweaty face "it's not Brexit's fault...." from atop of a tanker of unleaded.

Please don't entice the cunt back.

On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:42:33 AM UTC-4, browni...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Probably screaming with a red sweaty face "it's not Brexit's fault...." from atop of a tanker of unleaded.

SteveH was a rabid brexiteer, was he? I wonder if he's regretting that now that he's feeling the increases in the prices of parts and shipping for his shitty Italian cars.

On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 4:48:55 PM UTC-4, Salad Dodger wrote:

> I'm keen to release some equity and go a bit rural, but I'm in a
> minority.

If you're in the minority in a house of two occupants, I think you're going to have to re-think your posting name...

On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 7:25:35 AM UTC-4, Salad Dodger wrote:

> Everywhere is reachable from the bus stop 100m away. The DLR is 300m.
> ASDA's walkable, as is the doctors. Also, I'll have a free Oyster card
> in eight weeks. Anywhere on TfL's network, for free.

I'd love my parents to move from the fairly drab little town in which they live - I have visions of a cute little village in Dorset or Devon. But the same themes are true for them: local Dr is 100m away, local supermarket same distance in a different direction, bus stop 50m away, train to town 750m..

On 04/10/2021 12:25, Salad Dodger wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 08:45:07 +0100, YTC#1
> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 03/10/2021 21:48, Salad Dodger wrote:
>>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
>>> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/10/2021 12:30, Stephen Packer wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 20:34:40 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I bought my 2nd house (this one) in 1996 for $230k. It's a 2300sqft
>>>>>> house on a 8800sqft parcel, in a residential suburb ~5 miles from the
>>>>>> beach. It is now valued at more than $1 million.
>>>>>> My first house is a mile away, closer to the beach. I paid $160k in '91.
>>>>>> It's now worth $800k.
>>>>>
>>>>> I bought my first house in 1988 (two bedroom victorian semi-detached house
>>>>> on a major road in Bath) for £65.5k[1].
>>>>
>>>> 1st house was circa 1985.
>>>> 2 bed terrace. £13750
>>>
>>> First flat 1988, one bed, £74500.
>>> Downstairs sold theirs after a year for £52k.
>>> Sold eventually in 2000 for £104k
>>>>
>>>> Sold for £23000 in 1989.
>>>>
>>>> 2nds house, 3 bed semi. (1989) £42500
>>>
>>> House 4 bed terrace. 1999. £153k
>>> 4 bed is a bit of a con.
>>> One bedroom has a desk and the computers in it, another has two
>>> wardrobes and a chest of drawers.
>>
>> Do you have a garage?
>> (That was one main reason I bought this one)
>
> We do. It's *almost* big enough to put a car in.

Oh, never had a car in it. A previous owner used 1/3 of it for the
kitchen (another reason we bought the house).

Record has been 7 motorbikes. But i feel 3 is a bit more manageable.

>
> Several have been converted to an additional downstairs room. Some by
> simple erecting a wall of blocks behind the door, others by doing it
> properly, with bricks and a window.

It really winds me up seeing garages turned into rooms. What a waste of
decent space.

>
>>>>
>>>> CBA moving, too much hassle and cost involved.
>>>
>>> I'm keen to release some equity and go a bit rural, but I'm in
>>> minority.
>>>
>>
>> To go rural would not be an equity release for me.
>
> Even in Kent, I could get a substantial property for 75% of the value
> of this place. As it stands, it's not really ours, we're just living
> in it until our nieces and nephews get it.

Do they still leave roller skates at the top of the stairs?

>>
>> Actually, daft thing is, St Helens is near as damn rural. We are 10 mins
>>from farm fields and many paths. With pubs. Saturday was a 7 mile and 2
>> pub walk.
>
> Noticed this when I visited my grandad's grave in May.

<checks to see if Nick waved>
Another black mark against your sir.
</c>

>>
>> It has so many upsides[1] here that it often cancels out thoughts of moving.
>>
>> [1] Access to M-way network, trains to Liverpool (saves on motorbikes),
>> trains to Manchester, trains to Manc Airport, two airports in easy
>> reach, trains to Scotland and that there London.
>
> Everywhere is reachable from the bus stop 100m away. The DLR is 300m.
> ASDA's walkable, as is the doctors. Also, I'll have a free Oyster card
> in eight weeks. Anywhere on TfL's network, for free.
>

just over 13 months until I get my all Merseyside travel card[1]. If
they have not scrapped them by then.

[1] Age 60 perk.

--
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Ben Blaney wrote:

> > Probably screaming with a red sweaty face "it's not Brexit's
> > fault...." from atop of a tanker of unleaded.
>
> SteveH was a rabid brexiteer, was he? I wonder if he's regretting
> that now that he's feeling the increases in the prices of parts and
> shipping for his shitty Italian cars.

I've resorted buying MZ parts from a Polish geezer based in the UK - I
suspect he smuggles them in.

I do hope he has a beard and a parrot.

--
Simon

On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 2:43:05 PM UTC+1, Ben Blaney wrote:
> On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:42:33 AM UTC-4, browni...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
> > Probably screaming with a red sweaty face "it's not Brexit's fault...." from atop of a tanker of unleaded.
> SteveH was a rabid brexiteer, was he? I wonder if he's regretting that now that he's feeling the increases in the prices of parts and shipping for his shitty Italian cars.

Think so, but I could be mistaken..... I could just be unremembering incorrectly, I just knew I didn't like him from when he did a thing, then many other things. Then he was a dick about those things he did.

Probably many feel the same way about me, but I'll be honest and hold my hands up to being a cnut sometimes - never try and deny it - that's my policy.

Ben Blaney <benblaney@gmail.com> wrote in
news:a9b70767-e162-4729-9ae6-112f8852b174n@googlegroups.com:

> On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:42:33 AM UTC-4,
> browni...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> Probably screaming with a red sweaty face "it's not Brexit's
>> fault...." from atop of a tanker of unleaded.
>
> SteveH was a rabid brexiteer, was he? I wonder if he's regretting
> that now that he's feeling the increases in the prices of parts and
> shipping for his shitty Italian cars.
>

I don't think he is or was a Brexiteer. Indeed, he seems to admire the work
ethic of the many East Europeans operating sites selling his employer's
products.

He lost the plot over Covid and left here after you challenged him over
putting his bonus before Covid deaths.

I last saw him when he collected his Benelli TRK502X from my local
motorcycle shop (Spa M/c formerly Skellerns).

Not long after that he unfriended me on Facebook as I assume he saw some of
the comments I had made poking fun at him.

Odd chap, especially his online presence. Hardly unusual where UKRM is
concerned.

YTC#1 <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote in
news:sjf1fj$iqc$1@dont-email.me:

> On 04/10/2021 12:25, Salad Dodger wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 08:45:07 +0100, YTC#1
>> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/10/2021 21:48, Salad Dodger wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:17:03 +0100, YTC#1
>>>> <bdporter@ytc1-removespam.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you have a garage?
>>> (That was one main reason I bought this one)
>>
>> We do. It's *almost* big enough to put a car in.
>

same here, built in the 1970s, probably would fit an original mini or
Austin 1100

> Oh, never had a car in it. A previous owner used 1/3 of it for the
> kitchen (another reason we bought the house).
>
> Record has been 7 motorbikes. But i feel 3 is a bit more manageable.
>
>>
>> Several have been converted to an additional downstairs room. Some by
>> simple erecting a wall of blocks behind the door, others by doing it
>> properly, with bricks and a window.
>
> It really winds me up seeing garages turned into rooms. What a waste
> of decent space.
>

just lost another one across the road after the former resident snuffed
it. Builder neighbour bought it from the relatives and is doing it up,
including converting the garage to a room with window.

I live in a terrace of 4. All had garages. Mine is the last one left.
Same with 50% or so of those with integral garages on the estate.