ExSurveyor

The actual village in the valley is beautiful, and very unique in the area. The stream runs under some properties, it is a nightmare for a surveyor . A lot of building work has gone on on the Loose road lately. The old pub on the corner before you go down into the valley part has been built on as housing. The valley area is unchanged. I have heard it pronounced, lieu - s, but generally it has been corrupted by lazy english.

He was better last season and hasn't hit anyone this season

Definitely pronounced Loose locally, even by the better Estate agents.

Max Vestappen thinks F1 is a contact sport.

The area has a bowling club, I always misread it. Loose Bowls Club.

All sport is pointless, unless you are a fan I don't follow football or cricket. I do enjoy watching 20 fast cars going around in circles overtaking Williams Most sport will be less exciting without a crowd of supporters but given the choice I would rather watch my chosen one without a crowd than not at all.

For me, frontline workers are those who have had to put their life in immediate danger to help others. Key workers have got on with their normal job under difficult circumstances. The rest of the population, in the main, have carried on and followed the advice given, doing small and large acts of good if we can. I am humbled by the efforts of frontline staff, respect the efforts of key workers and gladdened by the way everyone else has acted. Lets have an annual event to mark the frontline workers supreme efforts but not dilute it by adding others.

The fact that they have not refused to step up to the challenge and have even volunteered for extra shifts says a lot about the medical profession. No one who entered the profession could have ever imagined such a situation, they train for disasters but hope never to be needed, when we needed then, they were there. Whilst I have respect for workers in other jobs who have carried on with work where possible, it's isn't in the same league as the hospital staff in the hot zones.

I can't see that this is anything other than an observation that a potential hirer may not be aware of the webcam and might appreciate being advised. Nothing about lockdown or catching the virus.

The new ones are much better for surveying, but useless for a boat ladder.

Still very difficult to collaspe. I have a light weight one but it is a nightmare to use as it binds. Add a bit of mud or silt and it would have to become disposable. The old style 4 part slot togeter ones would be better but still have limitations.

The telescopic surveyors ladders that I use weigh a ton, wouldn't need any extra weight. They are also difficult to collapse from the top rather than the bottom as they use gravity to help.

What about a wooden folding loft ladder, stained and varnished to match the topsides. It could be mounted to the boat and easily adapted for length. I have a rigid, fold flat 6' hooked ladder that can be hung over the side and reaches 4 feet into the water, cost me £10 second hand about 10 years ago. Never been used in anger.

You clever old sod When are you taking orders.

The world has gone mad, This is a report from fb but knowing the area and the company I have every reason to believe it is true. A warning to all: avoid using Aldi in Gillingham at the moment if you can. I've just got back from a truly awful there shopping trip. Having queued up, patiently and socially distancing, as I neared the entrance a shop worker clipped a carabena onto the belt loop of my jeans, my perplexed expression must have said it all as she explained that whilst people are distancing in the queue outside, they aren't distancing once inside the store. So what some Donut has dreamt up is to rope 6 ir so customers together with 2m of rope between each of us WTAF. Well these are strange times and with the threat of a second wave of infection I thought I'd best not complain and just tow the line (so to speak). I'm telling you now, what an absolutely idiotic idea this is. We've negotiated our way in to the store, some with trolleys and others trying to grab a basket before the berserk conga line drags them away. I'm was near the middle of the rope picking up some veg, the woman at the front, who was trussed up like a kid in a harness was trying to drag the whole line to the apples and the bloke at the back trying to pull the other way to get his hands on last weeks courgettes which were now this weeks courgette offer. It was like tug-of-war for the deranged. It's embarrassing to say, but I lost it, started ranting and raving about the rope and how the hell are people meant to shop like this, I went to unclip the carabena which miraculously brought the attention of the staff who told me I'd be asked to leave the shop if I uncliped. "FFS we're not rock climbing, we're trying to buy cheese" are words which I'll carry with me to my grave. Strangely this outburst had the effect of bringing our train together as a team. We carried on now with lots of communication, people passing stuff along the line to other to fill their baskets. Now I know passing things to one another could spread the infection as much as person to person contact but I honestly think if we hadn't of done, I'd still be there now. As we started along the aisle I generally refer to as "biscuits and creosote", it was clear from the melee that all was not well in the adjacent aisle. As far as I could tell there had been 2 trains of people and a lady in the middle of one chain had ducked under the other to get her hands on a pop-art cat bed. The tangle had resulted in a multi-pedestran pile up in which the epicentre resembled the diety Durga, it wasn't clear how long they'd been there but one old chap was trying to free himself by feverishly sawing at the rope with his house keys. We navigated the remaining aisles without major trauma, other than having to rescue Doreen (2nd in line) after she fell in the chest freezer trying to reach the last beef Wellington. We were individually unclipped prior to the till, at which point any cameradery we'd had quickly evaporated as everyone scrambled for the first available till. With the ordeal still impeding rational thought, it was a welcome and familiar sight to have the check out throw all my shopping on the floor in the normal 1000mph fashion. I really did not appreciate being strung along like that, but I hope you did.

Good location, that will remain and always make the property easier to sell.

As far as I can see the market it will be flat for the rest of this year. If life starts to return to more like normality after Christmas employment will rise and the housing market will pick up. I don't see huge falls in house prices but would expect lower volumes of transactions. If prices fall by say 10%, the one you are buying will have fallen as well, this is tricky only if you are substantially downsizing. Selling at 500k and buying at 300k would be 20k less to have in your pocket compared to higher prices. The market was bouncing back since December with a Brexit bounce, this stopped in early March but hadn't fully bounced back. If longterm unemployment stays at 4 million or more this will kill the market until it gets nearer 2 million. I don't see this happening but is worth bearing in mind. In all the recessions I have seen, this is different and should be short-lived because of the financial support early on. One of my companies is substantially linked to the active market, it is mothballed at the moment but enquiries are picking up slowly. I was aiming to retire in spring next year, I have moved it to 1st September this year now. I am not an estate agent but have enough contacts in the housing market to know the mood. Best advice Ian, prepare your house for sale, put it on the market after March next year and start looking for a new place. You could market it in September but could be delayed finding a new home before Christmas and be in a flat market. Good luck.

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Just not sure what year. You can't rush perfection.

Wrong, wrong and wrong. I do however have a huge respect for our Armed Forces who serve, and have served, Queen and country regardless of rank.

It looks even better when they have earned the right to wear them. Really

War medals are earned, they didn't dish them out for nothing, even to future Consorts. The fact he became engaged to our future Queen in1947 doesn't alter the fact that he joined the Royal Navy in 1939 at age 18 and served in numerous theatres of war.

Cornwall is a long way from Kent for 3 bags I need over 100 bags to start with, Everything has been moved back till mid July and keeping fingers crossed.

That is an agent talking it up They are busy because they have limited staff in and are dealing with the pipeline they have. My company normally does 50 surveys a week, we had 3 enquiries in two months and just 1 since last week. The market is frozen by fear of the future. The construction business should be open except there is a nationwide shortage of plaster and plasterboard that is likely to last 6 weeks. I can get 3 bags of finish plaster, from St Austell, These shortages will not help.

Prince Philip is an unreformed Matelot, he will be to the day he dies. He really has served Queen and country since 1939 until he recently retired from public life. I think this photo says it all.