That is of course assuming that people can read...but this isn't the forum to question the education system of modern Britain. Last night as I finished measuring up a property at half past seven (is that a tiny violin that I see you playing?), I did wonder whether the old fashioned practice of wearing out my shoe leather should be replaced by the e-movement of estate agency. That is, is the old style of...
October 2013
The recent announcement by Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, that the government proposes to introduce a "tenants' charter", has elicited a very vocal response and has raised many questions; and on this particular occasion, it isn't, "who ate all the pies?" The official-and publicly promulgated-reasoning behind the charter is to improve standards in the rental...
Continuing today's theme of ologies, it is human nature to indulge in paraxeology; and it is often with a negative undertone. This morning however, I have had some of my faith in human nature restored. A gentleman rang the office to say that he had found a house key- with the office details on the keying- on platform 1 Newport Station. Upon checking our securitised key system we identified the...
In the pursuit of alethiology (look it up), I have to say that if I hear one more thing about the bubble about to be caused by this week's early launch of Phase 2 of the Government's Help-To-Buy scheme, I may choose to discover that the life of a Trappist monk has its advantages (sorry Tatiana). Whilst it is admirable that banks are staying open -to much fanfare and self-congratulation - to deal with the...
It may only be 150 miles up the road, but I can now categorically confirm that London is a world apart from the rest of the British Isles (and Wales in particular). Having picked up a copy of the London Evening Standard and settled down in my rather grubby train seat, (actually I had to stand all the way back), I started to peruse the Wednesday night property section - without using my glasses. My...
