Question What is making you happy today?

[The Big Dady]

How very apt, there is a Data Shredder lorry parked outside the Institute of Mathematics in Nelson Road, Southend.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Exchanged contracts today! Due to complete on Monday. 1st time as a home owner, only taken 38 years haha

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Exchanged contracts today! Due to complete on Monday. 1st time as a home owner, only taken 38 years haha

Beat you to it by a few years -back in the day!

 

[Ricky Otto]

Beat you to it by a few years -back in the day!

Bet yours was a fair bit cheaper!

 

[Napster]

Exchanged contracts today! Due to complete on Monday. 1st time as a home owner, only taken 38 years haha

took me 42. The older generation had it good.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Bought my first flat at 25. 100% mortgage.

 

[Ricey]

Sol Campbell

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Bet yours was a fair bit cheaper!

Probably but it's worth a whole lot more now.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Sol Campbell and exchanging on my house!! I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Probably but it's worth a whole lot more now.

Although I don't live there anymore, our family house which I brought in 84, is now worth just over 9 times what I paid for it with a 20 year endowment mortgage.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Although I don't live there anymore, our family house which I brought in 84, is now worth just over 9 times what I paid for it with a 20 year endowment mortgage.

Think we bought in 86 IIRC.Bit difficult to work out the increase in value value from pesetas to the euro but certainly no complaints.

 

[londonblue]

Bought my first flat at 25.100% mortgage.

I bought my first flat in the 1990s for £60,000. I sold it 3 years later for £120,000. It was in Muswell Hill. I bet it's worth about half a million now...maybe more.

My rate was around 5%.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I bought my first flat in the 1990s for £60,000. I sold it 3 years later for £120,000. It was in Muswell Hill. I bet it's worth about half a million now...maybe more.

My rate was around 5%.

Yeah, Stoke Newington in 96 for £40K. Mortgage of roughly £250 a month. Sold it in 2000 for £100K. Now apparently "worth" £375K.

Nuts.

 

[londonblue]

Yeah, Stoke Newington in 96 for £40K. Mortgage of roughly £250 a month. Sold it in 2000 for £100K. Now apparently "worth" £375K.

Nuts.

Completely nuts.

I've just done a small amount of research: flats in the block are going for around £400,000 at the moment. I'm amazed, it might have been Muswell Hill (which is sort after) but the block is a ****hole.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Completely nuts.

I've just done a small amount of research: flats in the block are going for around £400,000 at the moment. I'm amazed, it might have been Muswell Hill (which is sort after) but the block is a ****hole.

The flat I lived in, inside was ok. Needed work but nothing special. The actual fabric of the block was falling apart however and there was a plan for rolling repairs that are probably going on until this day. Not to mention it borders Dalston and there are some VERY rough neighbourhoods about, and that was 20 years ago.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The below story from the Graniud, reminding me of the majestic beauty of Jet.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...e-of-wolf-jet-rhino-and-the-shows-other-stars

 

[Mad Cyril]

I watched ~200 students walk out of Southend College/'university' and straight into Greggs.

 

[Mad Cyril]

M&S 30 month matured hand cut prosciutto x 2.

Reduced from £7 to £1.

Delicious and a right touch.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Tried a sausage egg and cheese bagel from McDonald's.

Possibly the unhealthiest thing on the menu but it hit the spot.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Police pulling all allegal/dodgy looking vehicles on Victoria avenue.

I saw some bloke scraping black film off his rear lights with a coin.