Note to Estate Agents

Dear Estate Agents: if you are supposed to be carrying out a valuation on a property, and you make an appointment with the current tenants to come and do this, and then don’t turn up for the appointment without calling to apologise or explain, then it is possible, just possible, that waiting A WEEK to bother to phone the tenant to make another arrangement/apologise, might result in the tenant (who probably went out of his…

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Comedy Medical Jargon

Sal’s a big fan of medical themed television drama, and as such, I’ve been finding myself watching a lot of the likes of ER (and it’s shabbier British equivalent Holby City) recently. I’ve always found this a bit odd, frankly, what with her being a healthcare professional and all. After all, I can’t imagine I’d ever get home in the evening eager to watch a gritty drama about IT consultants dealing with difficult situations (“we’ve…

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Two Weeks

Er, hello, if there’s anybody left still reading. Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what happened to the last two weeks, and how I haven’t found the time to write anything here. I mean, jesus, I’m not Rob. It’s not as if we haven’t been busy doing bloggable things: we have. If I hadn’t been so lazy busy with work, I might have told you about our lovely day trip to Brighton a couple of weekends…

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