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JoyLouise | Report | 20 Sep 2015 17:25 |
Specs is fine Magpie. It would be unusual to find anyone who did not use the shortened version - what made you write it in full? |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 20 Sep 2015 16:32 |
keep out the cold |
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magpie | Report | 20 Sep 2015 15:48 |
Okay, specification then! |
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JoyLouise | Report | 20 Sep 2015 15:35 |
Own specs sounds ideal Magpie. |
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magpie | Report | 20 Sep 2015 15:29 |
We downsized from a three (good size) bedroom family home to a two bed log cabin which we had built to our own specs. It's been the best move we've ever made, the maintenance is minimal, and the insulation fantastic, which keeps electricity bills to the minimum. Also it's bottom rung for the council tax. I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 20 Sep 2015 11:47 |
The upgrade to GWR is hardly started let alone complete. The design and construction of the work on most of the Bath bridges has not even left the drawing board yet. Network Rail have met a wall of opposition to their plans from Bath City council, all sorts of pressure groups and now English Heritage. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 20 Sep 2015 10:25 |
Hearing mention of the Box Tunnel 'saga' I am just reading in the latest edition of Rail Magazine that the work to upgrade the GW around Bath, which included the lines between Chippenham and Bath via Box and Bathampton Jn to Westbury was completed on 31st August, ten hours ahead of schedule. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 20 Sep 2015 09:51 |
we all make mistakes |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 19 Sep 2015 21:00 |
Rollo - You are confused. La Gooner moved out of London many moons ago and said she wouldn't want to move back. ;-) |
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Carol 430181 | Report | 19 Sep 2015 20:56 |
My house is perfect lived here 48 yrs. originally only 2 bedrooms, one bathroom, now 3 bedrooms with loft extention and 2 bathrooms, only problem hate it where we live, if you love kebabs and turkish shops would be ok. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 19 Sep 2015 19:25 |
Yes you are right it is now only 2 and a bit hours which is quite an impressive way to flog the elderly diesel locos which first came into service around 1976. As far as I remember from my Bristol days reliability was not a strong point. I know that the line is to be electrified but it is in the nature of railways that upgrading involves a lot of delay first. That is already happening on the GWR with the ongoing saga of the Box Tunnel. By the time they are done ( ten years? ) I hope to be taking it easy. |
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LynGinN | Report | 19 Sep 2015 19:13 |
We are lucky in my part of East Anglia, West Norfolk, in that bungalows are plentiful and not too expensive. We bought ours 31 years ago, and at the time they seemed to be cheaper than houses. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 19 Sep 2015 19:09 |
and you get to keep the train for that :-D :-D |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 19 Sep 2015 18:57 |
And a Cardiff/Paddington season ticket will only cost you £10,096 a year |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 19 Sep 2015 18:50 |
think it's less than two hours to Paddington from Cardiff now - my son is a train driver for First Gt.Western and he drives the high speed trains from Swansea to Paddington |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 19 Sep 2015 18:42 |
Well £ 1.3 million will not get you much opulence in Islington. RightMove list the cheapest terrace house in the area at £ 600 000. For £ 1.1 million you can have the keys to a a C19 2 bed town house in fashionable Quick Street. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 19 Sep 2015 14:23 |
according to today's papers, the woman who suggested this lives in a 1.3 million pound hoouse |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 19 Sep 2015 10:37 |
Around here 'affordable' housing starts at £399,995 :-0 and that is official! |
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JoyLouise | Report | 18 Sep 2015 22:45 |
That's it in a nutshell, Sylvia. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 18 Sep 2015 22:38 |
JoyLouise |
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