Monday's Daily Mail headline about an estate agent attempting to fleece a dying gentleman out of the thick end of a million pounds did nothing to enhance the professional reputation of our industry. London-based Bargets had written to Mr Owen Hill who owned a property in St John's Wood, claiming that their agency had a 'genuine buyer' interested in buying his home. Under the erroneous impression...
February 2014
...somewhat overestimated His ability." Oscar Wilde After events of the past week, I have to admit that I am with the fop-haired, syphilitic aesthete. To celebrate Valentine's Day last week, I extended Mrs Cheshire's contract and as a reward for her endeavours bought her a brand new 2004 Mondeo diesel, (well she believes the descriptor...). Yesterday, some ne'er-do-well keyed the entire side of her...
... the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr. I don't think that the eminent American theologian, ethicist and public intellectual was possibly contemplating the whims of a capricious tenant when he said this; but I have on occasion recently had to find the mental fortitude not to either a. allow my blood pressure to ricochet off the scale or b....
It is on occasion difficult not to roll a jaundiced eye at the selective editing and manner in which events are presented to us, the great unwashed, general public. Last Thursday saw the announcement, with much feverish emotion , that UK house prices showed their biggest rise in three months in January 2014. The data supplied by the Halifax (part of Lloyds Banking Group - that bastion of business...
The lunar year has begun and 2014 is the Chinese Year of the Horse. The horse is part of the 12 year cycle that makes up the Chinese zodiac (as well as the 3.40 median auction stakes over 6f at Wolverhampton). These interact with the five elements; wood, metal, fire, water and earth. To give it its full title, 2014 is the year of the wood horse, replacing 2013's water snake. Those who know about...
