As 2016 bumps along to the end of a long and sometimes fairly tortuous road, The Chesh has taken a look at some of the issues that have vexed him and will continue to do so in 2017. Some are property related as befits a professional of his standing, some aren't. Go figure. Amidst the raft of regulations that have-quite necessarily been introduced to protect tenants from unscrupulous landlords-I have...
2016
...actually, I lie, it's Cherie. Has the Chesh finally lost his marbles (alongside his hair and Kylie Minogue's 'phone number), I hear you ask? Well no, not exactly. But as I typed the headline and committed it to 'print', it must be true. Just like the same El Tone in his September dossier back in 2002 wrote that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and had the capability to launch an attack within 45...
Well, the past week has thrown up a number of 'let me tell you' pub bore points for discussion (you know who you are). In no particular order: Who would have thought that a former Rhodes Scholar and one-time candidate for leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition would seek repatriation into public 'affection' (not here he didn't), through the medium of dance? Did the Strictly Come Prancing (SCP)...
...especially about the future" As a Nobel prize winning physicist, who amongst other things developed quantum theory and furthered the world's understanding of atomic structure, Niels Bohr was probably better qualified than most to offer such an opinion. That said, very few people are immune from embracing their inner Nostradamus or the more bargain basement Mystic Meg. As history demonstrates, if we got...
Are the lady dancers on Strictly Come Prancing really wearing more than in previous years or is it a sort of 'dress-my-dolly' in reverse; as the season progresses and the glitterball gets ever closer, do the costumes become more revealing? Week 1, think maiden aunt; the grand final, think a strip club in Vegas. I will be monitoring the situation closely-all in the public interest of course. Continuing on...
...and into my car" That was the line that we gave the ladies back in the day; a comment that is likely in today's world to get you a. an opportunity to sample the hospitality of the Gwent or b. arrested and locked up. So grooved a certain Billy Ocean (better known to his friends and family as Leslie Charles-but with that name he was never going to make it as a happening chart topper). This was the era of...
Finding a property to rent when you own a pet can be very difficult because not all Landlords are willing to accept your furry friends, but here at Cheshire & Co we are proud to announce that we are embracing pets and becoming one of the first Letting Agents in the NP postcode to become “Pet Friendly”. We have recently employed a new Head of Pet Relations who will be on hand to answer all your pet...
...cue the mental picture of me prancing about a battleship with big hair (yeah, right) wearing a fishnet body stocking and very little else (calm yourself please ladies). Incidentally, after the furore over Cher's big hit and the infamous video (and outfit), the American Navy released a teeth-sucking, holier than thou statement stating that if they had had forewarning of Ms Sarkisian's outfit-or lack...
...well at least since King John of Magna Carta fame was strutting his stuff attempting to control those pesky barons (think Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party). As the 'First Welsh Tax for 800 years' headlines have been screaming at us over the past week, come April 2018, it will be all change. Er, right. The Welsh Assembly will gain royal assent for a replacement for the current SDLT (Stamp Duty Land...
Obviously. One would like to think that the clue is in the title, ‘Estate Agents’. Ah, but one should not be so easily fooled. What in the name of all things holy is Cwmbran’s answer to George Clooney on about you may well be thinking? No, I haven’t finally succumbed to the after effects of too much Bacardi or the beseeching phonecalls of Svetlana and Tatiana. As we speed through 2016 faster...
