Thread: Daily or weekly cheer

Originally Posted by armstrong

Wifey picked up her new car today. Finally almost rid of the Merc which seemed to need fixing every couple of weeks. Apparently a temple is interested in buying it?!




I get to keep driving my Nissan March....

Does it have the Union Jack rear lights?

The Cooper S shifts like shite of a shovel, also a decent colour imho.

British racing green ennit, although about as British as Bratwurst

Originally Posted by Joe 90

All German now unfortunately, not like the good old days of the Italian job.

the good old days i went round cowley in the early 90s, they were still using pre-war presses they used to press out the old spitfire panels, it took 3 hours to change dies between panel runs.....

Originally Posted by aging one

Why in God's name did she buy that?

So they can visit you ?

Some upsides from last nights storm that blew through. Got to test out my new pool roof extension...no issues. It dropped about 2" of rain so do not have to water for awhile and Pm2.5 this morning is 23.

Survived 38 trips around the sun without unaliving myself through my antics. Huzah!

Originally Posted by armstrong

Maybe ask a teacher to help you write a coherent sentence first.

Yeah, that’s not the insult you think it is.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Survived 38 trips around the sun without unaliving myself through my antics. Huzah!

happy birthday Mandaloopy.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Survived 38 trips around the sun without unaliving myself through my antics. Huzah!

Happy Birthday. Birthdays in Thailand are the best.


Good one, LD.

A belated Happy Birthday Mandy!

^ I spent my Birthday last week in the air. Landed at Swampy around 7pm and spent the first hour of my 'Birthday in Thailand' in queues. It was pretty shite, tbh.

But, today I am much happier. In fact I'm very happy.

Last year I finally managed to get rid of a problem tenant in the Perth apartment. He was an Indian second hand car dealer (which should have immediately raised some concerns), caused a lot of mainly superficial but also more severe damage and had been dealing drugs from the property. Even so, you have to be so careful when evicting someone, to follow the letter of the law exactly or it will backfire on you. This guy was very aware of his rights and played it to the full. He finally went last November.

After a major overhaul, new carpets, complete redecoration that has taken over three months (partly due to Christmas), the apartment was marketed for letting again last week. All costs have been (and hopefully will be) met by the tenant's bond along with an insurance claim, so basically he did me a huge favour by causing the damage. I may even get something back under the 'loss of rent' clause.

But the main cheer... after only a few days on the market it has just been re-let for 950 AUD per week to an Indonesian family. It's a corporate lease and they offered $100 per week over the asking price. What is happening to the Perth rental market, it is currently booming? This is more than double I was getting last year and after a couple of years of basically covering costs I will actually start making some money on the place again. OK, so after off-takes including the astronomical strata company costs, agent's cut and bloody tax I won't see anything like the gross amount, but even so I'm hoping to build up a little fund in Aussie for the daughter's further education.

^ Good man Mendo, a daily cheer indeed.

^ I may even treat myself to a couple of bottles of Leo tonight!

Top man.


Would you think of possible retirement there and living the life of Looper?

The kid uses it for uni, then you use it for retirement/a grandpa flat.

Don't think I could ever move back to the West (sorry Nev) due to nanny-state nonsense, woke nonsense, and chocolate bars costing 3 times the price while being 3 times smaller, but Oz doesn't have the western European winters and moaning people.

Leo’s on Mendy!

^^ As much as I'd love to have 'the life of Looper' I could never go back to apartment living, but could maybe sell it to buy somewhere else with a nice garden?

Of course I'd have to jump through immigration hoops, even though I have a (small part) Aussie daughter.

I don't really think that I'll ever return to the West either, but maybe health insurance costs in the future could change that. I rarely eat chocolate these days so that isn't a consideration.

And... Australia certainly has it's fair share of moaning people imo... in fact having lived there a few years I can honestly say that I have never met a more work shy, entitled bunch of people. The 'whinging pom' has nothing on the Aussies.

But I don't really want to go there on this thread, to be honest.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Leo’s on Mendy!

I'll wipe the table down!

It's Easter weekend!

It's a 4 day weekend!

It's spring!

It's gonna be warm!

It's gonna be beer!



Must remember to be a good Irish boy and go to church to thank Jesus for resurrecting himself all those years ago and having the foresight to give us these days off work.

Lamb leg is discounted to £6.49p / kg in morrisons so expect Chitty to pick up a slightly gangerous one at 34p and wow us with a moroccan spiced wonder before the weekend is out.

Easteeeerrrrr

Originally Posted by hallelujah

It's Easter weekend!

It's a 4 day weekend!

It's spring!

It's gonna be warm!

It's gonna be beer!

Yup. I'm headed down to the river camping.

Must remember to be a good Irish boy and go to church to thank Jesus for resurrecting himself all those years ago and having the foresight to give us these days off work.

Fuck church.

Last full on busy day of term tomorrow and just a small Songkran day on Monday. Actually been a very enjoyable term, just pretty full on and quick.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Yup. I'm headed down to the river camping.






Fuck church.

Heading here over the weekend:



Bear country if I manage to make it into the national park.

Kind of regretting that lunch in Estonia in January.

Looks nice, have a good trip mate.

Hopefully you won't get too pissed, fooked and eaten by a big bad bear.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Looks nice, have a good trip mate.

Hopefully you won't get too pissed, fooked and eaten by a big bad bear.

The wingman will be there to keep an eye on me.

Although she's just asked if we're staying over.

Depends how strong the beer is.