https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53670199 "When you take away all the amenities that these developments advertise, then you realise you're just living in a glass box," My heart bleeds for those poor deprived souls in multi million pound apartments in central London, these must be such unbearably difficult times for you. Don't worry, us country yokels promise not to kill you and eat you, at least not for another year so the taste of smog can be cleared out of your blood.
If it's good enough for the people in the 'affordable' apartments, who couldn't use those amenities anyway, whose glass box has no glass and who had to enter through the tradesmans/pleb's entrance...
Aww, will the poor millionaire have to consider spending some of my tax money that funded her dividends on moving?
I totally get. I too seriously considered buying a five bedroom house with a view in Hertfordshire but, after some lengthy consideration, I decided that I couldn't afford a garden shed with a view in Hertfordshire.
I know. If you make it through the whole thread it's not surprising but it is disgusting. Tories - disasters are just business opportunites. Sorry, not business as that suggests providing something for a fee, it's just opportunities.
Well at least there are no current events like for example a global recession or pandemic that make it so a honestly run UK business could have benefited from a proper tendering process. /s
I love how the UK celebrates a 99-year old veteran dragging himself around the garden to raise £32 million for NHS Charities, while at the same time its government spaffs £150 million up the wall on some useless token PPE through cronyism.
You should read the moaning coming from the Hamptons, N.Y., where all the rich American folk have retreated. Since restaurants have largely closed, or socially distanced tables are at a premium, and there's a short supply of private chefs and housekeepers, those poor folk literally don't know how to feed themselves. A witness saw someone buying a whole cooked rotisserie chicken from a deli and asking what they need to do with it.
Last I saw the total was up to £268m, of which approximately £0 of usable supplies had been delivered to the NHS. The party of fiscal responsibility, everyone! You sit in the car park, tear open the packaging, and rip chunks off with your bare hands to shove in your gaping maw. Well, I do, anyway.
Reminds me of one of my OH's dad's girlfriends a few years back. Pretty well off Austrian lady and he sort of opened her eyes a bit, so much so one day she was overjoyed as she'd made herself her very first sandwich! Money, it just makes some people inept.
Without ₤1000s worth of diagnostic tools and years of training, I don't think there is much you can do on a car yourself now. Citroëns with Hydropnuematic suspension used to be notoriously complex but, compared to a modern, electronics laden car, my BX 1.9 diesel was as simple as a sheet of paper and I used do a lot myself.
