The jungle drummers of the Cwmbran environ were at it so hard last week that even Roger Taylor might have been pushed to keep up. Like the characters in a Jane Austen novel, the negotiators (and anyone who had access to any form of telephonic instrument-branch managers were not immune) could barely contain themselves following the publication of a fellow independent estate agent's article on his...
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No, not the words of the Prince of Denmark bemoaning his fate (as was his wont), but what I asked of a landlord this week. Do you really think that this renting lark is for you, my old china?' I am still capable of having my flabber gasted by the ridiculous reactions of first time landlords who, whilst reading all the press about how buy-to-let properties are the new Valhalla, simultaneously leave...
The events within the 24 hour period of 7-8 May would have been dismissed as wholly unbelievable if introduced in the last pages of a novel penned by the former Conservative MP. Kane and Abel was given its very own Trotskyite production five years ago as Familias Miliband indulged in fratricide and the cynics amongst us might say that in writing his manifesto, Miliband E. penned the longest suicide note...
The last week, nay the last 48 hours, have thrown up some life-changing questions that demand an attempt at being answered. To begin: 1. Chantelle, Kimberley, Taylor-May, Shannon, Kylie or perhaps following that other 'royal' couple, the Kardashians, could it be one of the points on a compass? The newest princess on the block is awaiting a name. I think that 'South' Wales has a certain je ne sais...
For the second occasion in less time than it takes Katie Price to fall in love, get married, get pregnant and get divorced (not necessarily in that order), I have been compelled to write another blog further to my preceding Friday offering. Whilst tuning into yesterday's Andrew Marr Show, I almost choked on my cup of tea when Ed Miliband started trumpeting about rent caps. It was said many years ago...
Not the chart topper by Annie Mae Bullock, but a statement made by those sitting in betting shops across the country, pundits both professional and self-appointed and many of those that regularly frequent racecourses about the-as I type this over an hour after he weighed in for the final time-now retired 20 times champion jockey, AP McCoy. I must modestly claim some part in his emergence to dominate a...
In June 2014, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, praised the handling and performance of Britain's economy. She reiterated the sentiment this week in Washington when she was quoted as saying, " It's obvious what's happening in the UK has worked". Ten months ago she did though voice concern that the housing market in the UK, in particular the help-to-buy scheme had the potential to...
As our regular followers will know, here at Cheshire & Co we usually blog once a week, but this morning, whilst training for the Cwmbran marathon (no, me neither..), a local newsstand caught my attention. Our Prime Minister-not the underling who is very much the lesser party in the bro-mance (remember the puppy dog eyes and man hugs in the garden at 10 Downing Street five years ago?)-has announced that...
...or for those practising endogamists, someone whose genetic make up isn't too dissimilar to your own. Think deepest, darkest Louisiana, remote islands in the Pacific Ocean and Aberbargoed. Ok, ok, before disgruntled from Cwmtillery writes in (using the eight fingers on his one hand), endogamy does not mean that you have to marry your sister. It just means-as all sociologists will tell you-the practice...
With 28 minutes to go as I write this, I would hazard a guess that the 7-up gang for tonight's televised debate are starting to feel just a little nervous. Dave, Ed, Nick, Nige, Nicola (she of the helmet hair), Natalie and Leanne, (go on, a fiver if you can give their surname and political party without a second thought... a fiver my money is safe...) all get to prance and do their own version of...
