AD's off to Confession

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Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

Watching a George Clarke thing about council housing or lack thereof.

I love George Clarke

Housing in this country is completely fucked up.

Another one here whose lockdown diet of chocolate and wine has increased. Couch to 5k is no match for my diet, and I should be losing more weight than I am.

But it's my birthday so despite going for a run first thing, and later going for a big forest walk with friends, I shall eat cake and a big roast with abandon! The diet can start Tuesday

I’ve put on weight in lockdown. Last year I lost two stone and got myself back into the healthy weight range, my weight had been creeping up again and I started back on a concerted effort to lose what I’d put back on then lockdown happened. I just couldn’t get my head around losing weight with the stress of the looming crisis and limited opportunities for food shopping and needing to cook more meals with everyone at home all the time so I gave up. I so cross with myself now, I feel like I’ve thrown away all the effort I put in last year but I’m going to start again next week to at least try to shift a few pounds.

I'm one of those always skinny types with no effort, who seem to annoy people. However even I have put on half a pound or so

FFS! Half a STONE not half a pound

Half a pound indeed.

@HesterShaw1

I'm one of those always skinny types with no effort, who seem to annoy people. However even I have put on half a pound or so

FFS! Half a STONE not half a pound

Half a pound indeed.

I was wondering... half a pound is just a medium sized poo

@trustThegenegenie

I’m from the generation where parents either bought their own council house,, rented from the council or had been lucky enough to buy a private house.

I don’t know anyone from my parents generation who privately rented.
Sadly this is going to become all too common.
There’s just no sense of stability is there?
The thought of my parents paying out £600 pm plus council tax and bills in their retirement would have been horrifying.
They couldn’t have done it and there’s still a chance they could have been alive now. Dad would have been 94 and mum 92. My dads private pension was only about £750 a month. State pension about £150 a week and mum the same..not sure about that is she didn’t always pay a full stamp.
So £1950 a month..well doable I suppose. Dad would pay tax and up here you could get a nice house in a lovely area for £600 a month
My dd lets out Her really nice bungalow for less than that.

It’s the impermanence that would bother me. Imagine in your 80s your LL wanting to sell up.
I’m a LL ..I like to think I’m one of the good guys . I have good tenants and they’ve had free rein over what they’ve done to the property and it’s immaculate so no worries there.
But what if I decide I want to sell it and buy a property abroad?
There’s a lot of moral dilemmas to this LL malarkey.
Maybe if I was younger, it’s what Id do but I’ve been there and done that..twice..and it brings its own set of problems.

My dds the same . We don’t put up the rent and we don’t like turfing people out..we aren’t cut out to be ruthless business people.😂
If I’d wanted to build up an empire , I could’ve taken equity from the house and mortgaged it and bought another one..and so on
But I like to sleep at night and that’s difficult enough most nights as it is.
In fact I’m really pleased that right now I didn’t have property abroad.

@HesterShaw1

Watching a George Clarke thing about council housing or lack thereof.

I love George Clarke

Housing in this country is completely fucked up.

Me too! I had been watching ugly house to lovely house so it reccomended me that to watch. Very interesting and very sad.

I grew up in a HA house. We were really privileged to get it.

Anyone got a thread title
Happy to take one for the team.

@Dowser I know exactly what you mean.

We are thinking of buying a rental in a few years as something to give to ds when he's older. But then there's the morals surrounding it. I've already said I'd be a good landlord. I'd allow pets, I'd allow decorating, I wouldn't put the rent up etc. I'd be fair. But what happens to the people who live there when we want to give it to our son?

It's hard.

I was wondering... half a pound is just a medium sized poo

@Drivingdownthe101

That reminds me of when I was working in a residential centre years ago. We basically lived on chips and beer, and one of the girls got terrible constipation. She got more and more irritable and pale and eventually went to the doc, and was prescribed a laxative. We were all breathless with anticipation, waiting for the announcement, and after breakfast one morning it came: "Kelly has been safely delivered of a 6lb poo. Mother and poo both doing well."

@Dowser

Anyone got a thread title Happy to take one for the team.

How about ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

@Drivingdownthe101 it truly is a vicious circle.

@BarkandCheese I am similar. Was spending a fortune on PT and trying really hard before lockdown: all gone to waste.

I have a gynae thing that makes me bloated too so feel very fed up. But can't stop eating rubbish!

@trustthegenegenie
My son has a HA house to die for.
Think I mentioned it up thread.
Each son has a lovely big bedroom.
Again this house is a privilege
His partner just hates the area and really it’s not that bad.
In my fantasy I’ve often thought about turfing out my tenants and offering it to them at a reduced rent . It’s in a lovely area but two sons would have to share but with a 22, 17 and 10 year old..which two?
Anyway that’s not going to happen .

My dd is in a three bed and has three children. She could do to sell her rental and get a bigger house but she can’t bear the thought of kicking out her tenants..argh!

@HesterShaw1

Rightio

ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

Well done Dowser. I'd do it myself but I'm too chicken and paranoid about everyone ignoring my thread and starting another one. Because that's how I roll...

Have been pondering Hester's ability to know she had put on half a pound.

My first thought was the same as Driving's

Happy birthday, Rubber

It's my littlest's birthday tomorrow so we are having a very small party. It was supposed to be in the garden, but it's cold and pissing down, so they will be in the house.

Apparently 6 people are allowed in your house here now. Not clear on how many households, but not cancelling a v small party for a little girl who has had her whole life taken away from her for 3 months.

You wouldn't do it to an 80 year old for 3 years.

@trustthegenegenie
I inherited my houses so it was never a business thing anyway.
I’ve been happy to have a little bit of something that a lot of something and a lot of stress.
I’ve had lovely tenants. I sold mums house when the tenant left otherwise I’d have kept it on but wouldn’t have my lovely caravan. The tenant didn’t want to leave. He was a single man. He’d got sick and recovered and was mid 50s but he’d put his name on a council/ HA list as he didn’t want to be in private rent as a pensioner.
He’d promised me he’d look after the house but of course he was so ill ( cancer) he couldn’t keep up that promise so when he left I took one look at what needed doing and just didn’t have the heart to start pulling out the kitchen, bathroom , redecorating so I made the decision to let it go. Mum had just passed away and we’d just done a lot of work on our house.
It was the right decision.
It was my family home and I think I’d have felt tied to it if I’d kept it.
( I do sometimes drive past and wonder who lives there now. )

@Nihiloxica
Just enjoy.
That will be a lovely memory and a bit of comfort for her too.
I’ve mentioned it on other threads my Lovely dil had Her children removed from her over two years ago
She never saw them for 14 months
Anyway the ex had begrudgingly let her see them 6 to,es in the last 8 weeks
She has pure fun with them..laughing, giggling, cavorting about..in the hope she can erase the bad memories that they have of being snatched away.
It all hangs on a shoestring though..he can stop it a moments notice 😡😡😡
She went to court to protect her children ..and this was the result 😡😡😡

New thread:
ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3952032-ADs-predict-wine-and-rioting-before-6-30pm-but-only-if-the-suns-out