Housing market upturn?
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Originally Posted by logiclee
Money, house prices, status, career.
Means absolutely nothing without health and happiness.
Unfortunately it usually takes a life changing event for some people to realise.
For me it was laying in A&E with a blood clot stopping blood flowing to my heart.
35 year old and having a heart attack. I now look back and think the 80 hour weeks I was putting in were perhaps a bit too much.
The whole UK work ethic seems to be to work loads of hours until you drop to pay for your massive mortgage and loans.
I think other European countries have it figured out better.
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Lee
Means absolutely nothing without health and happiness.
Unfortunately it usually takes a life changing event for some people to realise.
For me it was laying in A&E with a blood clot stopping blood flowing to my heart.
35 year old and having a heart attack. I now look back and think the 80 hour weeks I was putting in were perhaps a bit too much.
The whole UK work ethic seems to be to work loads of hours until you drop to pay for your massive mortgage and loans.
I think other European countries have it figured out better.
Cheers
Lee
Did you have an angio? What did it show?
Deep
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.... And how exactly does one 'take' tapas ? Intravenously, or up one's hooter off the toilet cistern ?[/QUOTE]
I reckon he 'takes' it up the ar8se! Its not only the truth that can hurt!
I reckon he 'takes' it up the ar8se! Its not only the truth that can hurt!
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Originally Posted by Deep Singh
Did you have an angio? What did it show?
Deep
Deep
No problems with angina and I can do an hour in the gym on cardio and do some punishing routes on my mountain bike without any problems. (Other than being knackered
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Lee
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Originally Posted by Slartibartfast
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"One takes tapas Rodney, Cordon Bleu, Cordon Bleu...."
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when i was down London i was asked if i wanted to "go for tapas"
does that count? or am i out of my league
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if I'm out of my league, ill sit back and crack open my best ever bottle of vintage chardonnay and eat sum pricey Lidl titbits and watch
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Read this thread with interest as I will be an FTB soon.
I earn crap wages (in my opinion, @24 I'd hoped to be earning more but down here I'd be so lucky
), our joint income will be touching 40k when we come to buy, and I earn a fair bit more than the missus :/
I have hardly any deposit right now and we are renting, in a nice flat that's very very cheap. I am paying into a share option scheme at work, at current share price I've more than doubled my cash so far![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
Luckily next year my share options come through which should give me an almost 10% deposit on what we'd want, but it's still pretty expensive.
We have however seen a slight decline in the market down in south Devon.
This place for instance has dropped quite a bit in price since it was first on and still not shifted, to me this would be an ideal modern place to live for a fair few years.
http://www.mashfordestates.co.uk/pro...il.php?pid=113
But I guess I'll see this time next year how things pan out, and if we're ****ed or not![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
My folks own an estate agency down here and they said I shouldn't be in any hurry, whilst prices might not be "crashing" down they reckon, down here, they will slow and creep down.
I earn crap wages (in my opinion, @24 I'd hoped to be earning more but down here I'd be so lucky
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I have hardly any deposit right now and we are renting, in a nice flat that's very very cheap. I am paying into a share option scheme at work, at current share price I've more than doubled my cash so far
![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
Luckily next year my share options come through which should give me an almost 10% deposit on what we'd want, but it's still pretty expensive.
We have however seen a slight decline in the market down in south Devon.
This place for instance has dropped quite a bit in price since it was first on and still not shifted, to me this would be an ideal modern place to live for a fair few years.
http://www.mashfordestates.co.uk/pro...il.php?pid=113
But I guess I'll see this time next year how things pan out, and if we're ****ed or not
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My folks own an estate agency down here and they said I shouldn't be in any hurry, whilst prices might not be "crashing" down they reckon, down here, they will slow and creep down.
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
when i was down London i was asked if i wanted to "go for tapas"
does that count? or am i out of my league![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
does that count? or am i out of my league
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Loving the delboy references, particularly as those that posted them are the ones with the poor command of the lingo.
http://www.andaluciacoastandcountry.com/tapaspain.html
http://www.nationalexpress.com/eurol.../barcelona.cfm
http://www.answers.com/topic/cuisine-of-spain
One 'takes' Tapas. It's just the way it is, probably sounds a bit odd to the type of people who eat in maccy d's. That's because you're scum.
Here's a book you should read to improve your French, maybe you could move onto Spanish next? Porqué no?
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Originally Posted by TruthHurts
Are you sure it was tapas or something else to do with your own ***? You know what these London boys are like.........
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i do rember they came in small round dishes, which apperntly your supposed to share, i think the dishes were about £4/5 each?
there was no shareing going on with the tuna slice one that ended up infront of me
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the place was slightly spanish looking as well if that helps
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
not 100% sure, i was drunk at the time ![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
i do rember they came in small round dishes, which apperntly your supposed to share, i think the dishes were about £4/5 each?
there was no shareing going on with the tuna slice one that ended up infront of me![Lol](images/smilies/lol.gif)
the place was slightly spanish looking as well if that helps![Lol](images/smilies/lol.gif)
![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
i do rember they came in small round dishes, which apperntly your supposed to share, i think the dishes were about £4/5 each?
there was no shareing going on with the tuna slice one that ended up infront of me
![Lol](images/smilies/lol.gif)
the place was slightly spanish looking as well if that helps
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
i think the £4/5 price was due to the dishes actually being prepared on the thigh of a sweet Spanish schoolgirl out the back ![Norty](images/smilies/norty.gif)
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