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Mar. 26th, 2008 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksSo, we went to Bluewater yesterday, to buy me some clothes. I'm not sure what it is that allows me to chuck out a couple of hundred quid here (chest of drawers for downstairs) and a couple of hundred quid there (dentist fees every month), but to white at the thought of spending a couple of hundred quid on cloths. But, well, that's geeks for you.
Bluewater plusses: It isn't Oxford Street. It only takes 30 minutes to drive there.
Bluewater minuses: Lots of teenage kids with weird haircuts and seriously tasteless tops that they will be embarrassed to see photographs of in 20 years' time, when, to a man and woman, they will have entered premature Essex middle-age.
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Having bought a chest of drawers for downstairs, the tenants decided that it was too big. So it now rests downstairs in the vestibule, awaiting collection and replacement. That kind of ruined my day for a couple of hours yesterday until it was kind of sorted out. I've often felt that tenants think all of their rent goes straight into the landlord's pocket for spending on nights out of the pub, whereas in fact, not only does a lot of the money not even reach me (the estate agents take all their commission up front), but, even when it does reach me, the mortgage is 50% more than the income. Far from getting money in my pocket to spend, it costs me money that I could otherwise spend quite happily.
I live with that, because I wanted to own the whole hose, but it's a pain to have it ruin a proportion of what was meant to be a nice day out.
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No work, no poker and (as you can see), not much blogging. Normal service resumed later in the week.
PJ
Bluewater plusses: It isn't Oxford Street. It only takes 30 minutes to drive there.
Bluewater minuses: Lots of teenage kids with weird haircuts and seriously tasteless tops that they will be embarrassed to see photographs of in 20 years' time, when, to a man and woman, they will have entered premature Essex middle-age.
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Having bought a chest of drawers for downstairs, the tenants decided that it was too big. So it now rests downstairs in the vestibule, awaiting collection and replacement. That kind of ruined my day for a couple of hours yesterday until it was kind of sorted out. I've often felt that tenants think all of their rent goes straight into the landlord's pocket for spending on nights out of the pub, whereas in fact, not only does a lot of the money not even reach me (the estate agents take all their commission up front), but, even when it does reach me, the mortgage is 50% more than the income. Far from getting money in my pocket to spend, it costs me money that I could otherwise spend quite happily.
I live with that, because I wanted to own the whole hose, but it's a pain to have it ruin a proportion of what was meant to be a nice day out.
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No work, no poker and (as you can see), not much blogging. Normal service resumed later in the week.
PJ
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Date: 2008-03-27 06:05 pm (UTC)Your entries usually make a lot more sense than this. I haven't been to Bluewater, and I'm struggling to work out how the teenage kids could have caused you a particular problem. Did you get mugged, or perhaps you were mocked for your presumably more conventional and tasteful haircut and attire?
I thought the purpose of teenagers in general was to try outlandish and inadvisable fashions in an attempt to shock or unnerve the older folk. Don't pander to them.
Also how can something ruin your day 'for a couple of hours'? How can a presumably inanimate item of furniture in the vestibule of your house ruin a 'nice day out'?
Finally it seems like you're saying the tenants are costing you money. It's nice that you chose some random people to assist, especially if they have trouble with basic tasks such as using a measuring tape. Maybe you'd like to chip in for my rent too?
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Date: 2008-03-27 10:33 pm (UTC)I am in Madrid. The temperature is over 20C. The food, sidra and cava are great.
Is that anything like this Bluewater you talk about?
Wish you weren´t here.
Amor y besos,
Jaime. xxx