Finally got our house on the market, this week and have actually had a viewing.

Now all we need is a decent offer!

(12 Aug 2017, 7:06 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Finally got our house on the market, this week and have actually had a viewing.

Now all we need is a decent offer!

Since that post, we've found a buyer and had an offer accepted on a lovely, if scruffy, house right in Durham city

(24 Aug 2017, 1:42 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Since that post, we've found a buyer and had an offer accepted on a lovely, if scruffy, house right in Durham city

Excellent, good stuff!

My best friend in the whole world has past all his exams.
So pleased for him.

(24 Aug 2017, 3:18 pm)citaro5284 wrote Excellent, good stuff!

Wait until this time next year when I'm grumbling about what a money pit it is!

Getting 18500 hits on the photo of the Arriva Streetdeck (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...6754107872) in 24 hours after uploading it after it ended up on Explore, easily out doing my previous top photo that I took 3 years ago (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...4201326104) . It hasn't overhauled the total number that the top photo has (21028) but it probably will overtake it at somepoint in the future.

Learning that the one of a kind Unipower Tractor unit is on an abnormal load move in Newcastle this weekend for ALE Heavylift.

My UK Railway Datafile has arrived today, which contains every British and Irish mainline and preserved stock


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Coming accross the ALE Unipower broken down which meant I could get some daytime photos of the impressive machine, although they were only on my phone as I was heading to work, they still came out great. https://flic.kr/p/Y9sUTs

Having the opportunity to work on some festivals in the last month. I've been frustrated in my attempts to get volunteer work so I'm pleased that three of my established opportunities went well.

(19 Sep 2017, 8:24 am)neilwatson wrote Having the opportunity to work on some festivals in the last month. I've been frustrated in my attempts to get volunteer work so I'm pleased that three of my established opportunities went well.

Excellent - pleased it went well

(19 Sep 2017, 2:25 pm)citaro5284 wrote Excellent - pleased it went well

Thanks Citaro 

Stagecoach have been doing a competition on twitter as part of their custome service week. If you retweeted their message they gave you a chance to win a tour of Slatyford depot and 28 days travel. I won it . I've barely achieved much this year so this is amazing 

Got me bus pass!

Well not mine as I'm not quite that old but one for littlun+carer.

(07 Oct 2017, 4:19 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Got me bus pass!

Well not mine as I'm not quite that old but one for littlun+carer.

Was going to say......

(07 Oct 2017, 7:52 pm)citaro5284 wrote Was going to say......

I'm only 12 years off one of my own

(12 Oct 2017, 6:03 pm)R852 PRG wrote Been offered a position on a scheme our school is running in partnership with St. Chad's College, Durham University, with the ultimate aim of a reduced offer on admission to Durham.

Sounds incredibly useful. Durham ask for eyewateringly high grades. My nephew is interested, partly for the sport, as he's a county level athlete, but I don't know how confident he is of achieving As and A*

Just pre ordered the 2018 edition of UK Railway Datafile


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The Xbox One X that I ordered has been dispatched today, should arrive tomorrow but the only problem is I’m going to visit a friend so hopefully a neighbor will take it in


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Raised £5769 for Children In Need today, with more to be counted next week.

(17 Nov 2017, 9:31 pm)R852 PRG wrote Raised £5769 for Children In Need today, with more to be counted next week.

Nice one!

After trying for 3 hours for Peter Kay tickets, i finally got some!

After 2 and a bit noisy, dirty and unsurprisingly cold weeks, our new roof is complete. Just waiting for the scaffolding to be taken away so we can clean all the muck up, now. We can now also fix all the damp patches caused by the leaky old one and get the bedrooms fixed up so we can finally move upstairs.

We tried not to stare at the scary big bill for too long!

(23 Jan 2018, 7:21 pm)BusLoverMum wrote After 2 and a bit noisy, dirty and unsurprisingly cold weeks, our new roof is complete. Just waiting for the scaffolding to be taken away so we can clean all the muck up, now. We can now also fix all the damp patches caused by the leaky old one and get the bedrooms fixed up so we can finally move upstairs.

We tried not to stare at the scary big bill for too long!

When I bought my house, I got the roof done too.
The surveyor pulled it up in the report, so agreed to go halfies with the person selling.

Win win for both of us.

(23 Jan 2018, 10:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote When I bought my house, I got the roof done too.
The surveyor pulled it up in the report, so agreed to go halfies with the person selling.

Win win for both of us.

We knocked most of the cost off the asking price. The whole place has been neglected and we've had to fix everything. Even the oven door was bent and there's a corresponding hole in the kitchen floor tiles that looks like someone had stood on it and tipped it over.

Goodness knows how long the previous owners were without heating but a capacitor had blown in the controller. That could have cost us anything from £50 to £120 to replace, but thankfully husband was glad of the excuse to play with his soldering iron and fixed it for £3!

Upstairs loo had to be disconnected because the saniflow was randomly flushing. That was fixed with a £3 custom cut rubber washer.

It'll be lovely when it's finished, but definitely not the sort of house for people who can't even competently change a lightbulb (we asked them to change the bulbs upstairs, before the survey, to demonstrate that they worked. They pulled the units out of the ceiling in the process, leaving something else to fix)

The roof was so obviously shot that we had a roofer check it out before the surveyor even got there.

I see this fella on a regular basis, but had no idea who he was.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/me...9-12049549

Glad to see him get his 5minutes of fame.

I got, not one, but two pictures on Flickr explore at the same time. I'm even less sure about how the system works now... not complaining though 

Got the new Samsung S9 this morning, very good so far.

I'm jealous!

Another 3 pics on flickr explore