Bilboro-lad

You can't expect to buy an old house and do nothing to it. It's just not realistic. If it needs new windows etc, then that should be clearly obvious on viewing, and as I said before, your house has asbestos in it, as does everyone else's. If you look for it then you'll find it. Asbestos has nothing to do with breathing difficulties, the fibres have little hooks that create a hazard decades later. Sounds to me like they've just gone off the boil, which is why the system of pre-contracts was introduced..

Instead of spending hundreds of millions on the tram that no-one wants, they could have bought us all a car.

The only people at risk are people like me who spent hours every day crawling around in lofts pulling wires through. In Oz I lived in a house MADE of asbestos. Artex of the 70s and 80s contains asbestos. Every house in the UK contains asbestos dust from the old brake pads. You can't avoid it. Forget about it, you can't change what can't be changed. You are at far more risk from vehicle exhausts so don't let the kids out.

Look on the bright side. No vacuuming, cooking and washing up for at least six months. Doctors orders.

Why are they backing out? A bit of rot in the woodwork is a DIY job. 'Possible' subsidence? What does that mean? It is or it isn't. Not only that - but the next house they buy will have asbestos under the tiles - so does yours and mine. Seek and ye shall find. A few years back car brake pads contained loads of asbestos. As they wore down the dust blew into the atmosphere. Roofs are ventilated to prevent rot in the rafters. The dust blows into the roof void and settles. We've all got it. It means nothing as it stays where it is in the loft. So looking at it logically, the agent is right.

"Hotel staff came into work this morning still shaken by the tragedy. Back at work as usual was the hero of the fire slightly-built Gerard Sayer, the 18 year old hall porter and lift boy. Gerard took his lift up to the third floor through smoke and choking fumes and tried to save two elderly guests. He was rescued himself by ladder. Gerard of Upper Shoreham Road Shoreham, said this morning " I didn't really think about the risk at the time, I had the lift and I used it."

It's OK moving when you are renting but when you have to buy and sell (as I am now) it's a right pain. Three months and we STILL haven't exchanged contracts.

You'd get jet lag. Leo Sayer did that job and saved lives when the building he was working in caught fire.

Why would anyone want to continue on with dementia? There's a guy three doors down that scalped himself with a Stanley knife last week. A perfect cut from behind his left ear, round his forehead, to behind his right ear then down his neck, they found him lying on the carpet the next day covered in blood with his scalp hanging off, but still alive. The son showed me the stitches on his phone - just like Frankenstein. It's time that sane and normal people could sign a document to end their lives if they get dementia. I'd sign it in a flash. When it's time to go it's time to go.

fch782c? Is that what your missus calls you?

Has anyone mentioned Neilson's Ice Cream? They had a depot on Glaisdale Drive. Brilliant stuff.

They should have left it until the tram started running.

Well something has to change - that's a mathematical fact. The health budget is falling, the number of oldies is about to go ballistic with us baby boomers, more procedures and expensive drugs are available than ever, life expectancy is ever rising. It has to stop somewhere. it just cannot continue. Personally I think they'll have a split tier system. Basic cover will be NHS, any special stuff will all be private.

Well how did previous generations manage? The rise of the care home is a new phenomena. Who remembers Billy Liar?

Just give reference and credit to the book. You are then doing the author a favour.

Well something has to change as the NHS is bust. BTW, what does race have to do with this thread?

Personally, I'd rather be in a box than a care home. Where are the families? Oh yeah, they are holidaying in the Med.

They are probably looking for their compensation.

So why are breast feeding mothers so militant that they will organise and march on establishments that prefer they didn't breast feed in public? Pity they don't take over UKIP.

She got her 'undisclosed' compensation so all is well in the universe. I note that she's not flashing that about.

Oh dear. You are supposed to take the valves out upwards - not sideways. I've got a little valve guitar amp that I like.

My dad used to get loads of these through his shop when he did a house clearance. Sadly, he couldn't sell them so they all went for scrap. How many times my mum got a needle through her finger. She was better at knitting than machining. Today he could sell them all to Pakistan which is where the whole trade went.

I've got a scarf my mum crochet-ed (How do you spell it?? And a toolbox that was my Dads, Both from the 60s.

Surely, Melissa, you mean 1948? 1984 was ten minutes ago.

It looks way too much like a really castle. Very Rapunzelesque.