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ddraig said:
will someone else post on ere!!? not just me :oops:

sooooo, might be buying (gulp!) a house quite soon, Roath area
any recommendations for solicitors/conveyors and other people you have to pay loadsa money to welcomed
ta
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ddraig! nice one mun! Have you got one picked out?

I used LG Williams and Prichard, Sian Mills is one of the partners there. She's a family friend and helped me loads when my Dad passed away. Cost wise, I have no idea, but at least the firm isn't involved in any debt collection shit like so many others.
 
ta will look into them
sort of, bit small but should be cosy, still sort of looking but reckon a decision should be made soon

the gf has semi looked into 'greendeal' too and i said some of them schemes are dodge but i knows an expert like! :D
cheers
 
ddraig said:
ta will look into them
sort of, bit small but should be cosy, still sort of looking but reckon a decision should be made soon

the gf has semi looked into 'greendeal' too and i said some of them schemes are dodge but i knows an expert like! :D
cheers
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Nice! Yeah let me know if you want me to cast my eye over the energy efficiency stuff. There's some dodgy players out there, but there will also be some great offers if you get the right level of grant funding.
 
spacemonkey said:
ddraig! nice one mun! Have you got one picked out?

I used LG Williams and Prichard, Sian Mills is one of the partners there. She's a family friend and helped me loads when my Dad passed away. Cost wise, I have no idea, but at least the firm isn't involved in any debt collection shit like so many others.
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How very freaky..... Was about to recommend the very same person!
 
ddraig said:
will someone else post on ere!!? not just me :oops:

sooooo, might be buying (gulp!) a house quite soon, Roath area
any recommendations for solicitors/conveyors and other people you have to pay loadsa money to welcomed
ta
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Will try, diff goss boss! Good luck with the house buying, I'm getting to that point although I've started to look at a few part buy, no deposit schemes. The deposit is the real bugger for me!
 
yeah, watch out for some of them schemes tho!
i wouldn't be able to do it on my own

good luck
this any good to you?
http://wales.gov.uk/newsroom/housingandcommunity/2012/121113ms/?lang=en
The three and a half year scheme, which will be run in partnership with house builders, will be available to all buyers in areas of housing pressure and first time buyers across Wales and will support the purchase of up to 3,000 new build homes up to value of £250,000. Rather than funding being made directly available to buyers, the Welsh Government and house builders will act as guarantors so that buyers can secure high loan to value mortgages that would not otherwise be available to them. Buyers will contribute a 5% deposit.
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Can anyone here confirm that a story I heard is true or not? I always hoped it was because it made me laugh so much but it sounds improbable. A lad called James I worked with years ago told me that when Cardiff got bombed during World War 2, the people of Swansea climbed to the highest point of the town and cheered wildly.

It's too far away for one thing and too cruel for another. However, he told the tale with such conviction that it gave me a giggle.

He was fibbing wasn't he?
 
Favelado said:
Can anyone here confirm that a story I heard is true or not? I always hoped it was because it made me laugh so much but it sounds improbable. A lad called James I worked with years ago told me that when Cardiff got bombed during World War 2, the people of Swansea climbed to the highest point of the town and cheered wildly.

It's too far away for one thing and too cruel for another. However, he told the tale with such conviction that it gave me a giggle.

He was fibbing wasn't he?
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Utter tosh. Quite unpleasant tosh at that.

Did he claim that other places cheered over Aberfan too?
 
editor said:
Utter tosh. Quite unpleasant tosh at that.

Did he claim that other places cheered over Aberfan too?
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He told it as a story that had been told to him by his family or local Swansea folklore. He would have been born sometime in the mid 70's so he didn't claim to have seen it with his own eyes. He told the story enthusiastically but I don't think he was genuinely happy at imagined scenes of the dying. It was the idea of a rivalry pushed to an extreme rather than schadenfreude in all disastrous circumstances. I don't think there's anyone who's ever lived who gets a laugh out of Aberfan.

Anyway, he's some cunt I worked in a coffee shop with in 1998 so hate him as much you want. I don't know why I've decided to be his advocate.
 
editor said:
Some Man Utd fans sang about it with gusto at Ninian Park in the 70s.
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Of course. I was so naive. There's a football chant for every tragedy going isn't there? Hillsborough, Aberfan, Harold Shipman murders, Munich....

Children though. I think that's the first chant I've heard of that is so specific about what was essentially a children's tragedy.
 
editor said:
I've never seen people so angry at a football game.

There's a write up here: http://antistereotypes.co.uk/footballCCFC-MUFC.html
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I've been in an away end when Hillsborough chants have been sung and as many away fans (myself not included) lost friends or family that day, the fury it provoked was palpable. Well, physical actually in the particular instance I have in mind.

I digress.

Thanks for the link. Reading now.
 
Favelado said:
I've been in an away end when Hillsborough chants have been sung and as many away fans (myself not included) lost friends or family that day, the fury it provoked was palpable. Well, physical actually in the particular instance I have in mind.

I digress.

Thanks for the link. Reading now.
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It's a fascinating look at Neanderthal football and unlike many football hooligan stories retold years later, it's fairly accurate.
 
In a rare moment of admiration for Man United fans, I'll admit the red, black and white "VIVA KEN BARLOW" stickers they've posted around the Madrid metro have amused me this week. Only a little mind.

2nd digression. Last one for today.

Night night.
 
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