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From: R C Nesbit on 22 Jul 2010 15:07 Andy Bonwick spoke: > >Logic does not necessarily figure in house purchase decisions. > > I think it probably does. > > While plenty of people would move to a decent area and commute into > London the house prices where you live stay low. Go figure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/mar/20/lets-move-to-sherwood-for est-the-dukeries Easy! - most Southerners are as thick as pigshit. -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit.
From: Andy Bonwick on 22 Jul 2010 16:00 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:35:43 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:30:02 +0100, Andy Bonwick ><nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > >>Go figure. > >While we're on the subject, if you and the missus are heading west at >the weekend, could you stick a copy of the local rag in a pannier for >me? > I would but I'm staying up north at the stinky power station until Sunday evening and then I'm heading for Muscat on Monday so we'll not be crossing paths. Email a snail mail address to either myself or Adie and we'll pop something in the post to you. >TIA. NP.
From: Andy Bonwick on 22 Jul 2010 16:02 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:07:11 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: >Andy Bonwick spoke: >> >Logic does not necessarily figure in house purchase decisions. >> >> I think it probably does. >> >> While plenty of people would move to a decent area and commute into >> London the house prices where you live stay low. Go figure. > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/mar/20/lets-move-to-sherwood-for >est-the-dukeries > >Easy! - most Southerners are as thick as pigshit. Do you really think so? Well you carry on living the dream.
From: The Older Gentleman on 22 Jul 2010 16:14 wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> wrote: > Very popular with the tight > fisted middle classes. <fx: shuffles feet nervously> I prefer to think of them as having an excellent price/quality ratio. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 Suzuki GN250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: darsy on 22 Jul 2010 17:40
On Jul 22, 6:13 pm, wessie <putmynameh...(a)tesco.net> wrote: > darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:8852b7e2-54be-488d-a45c-93e71611e142 > @z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com: > > slightly embarrassingly, the nearest "big shop" to me (as opposed to > > the Somerfield in the petrol station down the road) is now a Lidl. > > Fortunately it's only another 2 minutes further to get to M&S and > > Waitrose. > > Odd demographics associated with Lidl & Aldi. Very popular with the tight > fisted middle classes. Often see them next to Sainsburys & Waitrose snobbishness aside, the main problem I have with Lidl is that their stock is fairly random. Plus they only ever seem to have one till (out of 4) open. Their fresh produce is perfectly OK, mind - way better than the likes of Morrisons or Asda. -- d. |