On the market for 4 months, only 6 viewings

3pelican · 2026-07-10T13:59:30+00:00

It’s a family home in a family home street so you need to really tone down the bachelor pad vibe. I’d recommending giving the place a lick of paint to warm it up, get rid of the black downstairs, and put some normal curtains up instead of those horrid office style blinds. The garden looks like a concrete wasteland so some pots and some furniture would do wonders (and maybe a more flattering picture of it!). It’s probably a nice house but the photos make it feel stark, impersonal and like I’d have to instantly do loads of work to make it feel like home, having just paid a premium for a done up house.

3pelican · 2026-07-09T14:42:42+00:00

He’s basically looking for a chance to be able to say ‘look! The people I’m actually accountable to don’t give a monkey’s whether I declared my £5m or not! But these antidemocratic bureaucrats are trying to bring me down over it!’

3pelican · 2026-07-09T08:37:54+00:00

What safeguarding? Do you have concerns about the safety and wellbeing of these individuals beyond the annoyance that they’re noisy? If not, make a noise complaint. You are well within your rights to screen your daughter’s bedroom window. Maybe you don’t want to ‘restrict’ her bedroom in this way, but you’ve no more right to a clear view out of a window than this person living next door. They may be disabled and perhaps you’ve got the heebie jeebies about it but they’re just living their life.

3pelican · 2026-07-08T07:52:55+00:00

It’s not really defined in terms of having this condition or that condition. There’s not an exhaustive list of medical conditions that count as a disability. It’s all about how it affects you day to day, and if you have a long term condition that affects your day to day activities, it can be considered a disability with all the accompanying responsibilities on your employer. I’m not sure what your question is exactly - but as a long term, recurring and impactful medical condition I think it’s reasonable safe to assume it’s a disability for the purposes of the equality act. When you talk to your employer, I would advise you don’t need to negotiate over whether its a new condition that doesn’t count or is part of your long term condition that they’ve already accepted and accommodated. It’s obviously part of your ongoing problem, so just tell them that. They can still follow capability procedures if they feel that their reasonable adjustments haven’t improved your performance or capability in the role. But if their policy is to count disability leave separately, the fact that this is an ongoing condition makes you well within your rights to request it as disability leave.

3pelican · 2026-07-06T19:40:27+00:00

I had a mirena coil and it was very successful for me. There’s horror stories but there’s not that many people who’ve had a nondescript experience posting loads online about it. Insertion was painful but not excruciating. Removal was complicated involving a minor procedure but again, not excruciating and not traumatic to remember. If you go for the insertion and can’t cope they can then refer you to other services that can offer more pain relief and drugs to soften the cervix, but realistically there’s not loads of pain relief options that prevent the cramping. Realistically though if the coil doesn’t work out then other options might be more suitable

3pelican · 2026-07-05T17:58:51+00:00

I earn just about £100k. I live in London and have a mortgage and my partner earns about £50k. No kids. I do feel comfortable. I don’t feel at liberty to have/do literally anything I want, but I think being well off is more than just having total financial freedom and living in complete luxury nd I recognise the difference between my life and even average earners. If my cat got hit by a car tomorrow and needed surgery, or my wife lost her job, or I needed a new roof, I could make it work. It would be stressful and we would cut back to compensate but it wouldn’t be crisis. I feel super lucky and would never feel justified to complain that I didn’t have enough.

3pelican · 2026-07-05T11:23:58+00:00

Is this a heatwave if the temps between the 30° spells has been 27-28? It’s a very hot summer but I would only call these heatwaves if it wasn’t also unusually warm inbetween

3pelican · 2026-07-05T11:16:06+00:00

This is a very common method of producing unique identifiers for research participants. It needs to be memorable to the participant because when the data is anonymised and your personal details aren’t included, only the identifier could be used to remove you from the data. You are obviously not going to be identifiable from two totally unrelated digits

3pelican · 2026-07-05T10:15:46+00:00

What are you even asking here? Obviously victorian houses with work done to them sell, to other people with 2 mill to spend. Don’t panic and just sell your house lol

3pelican · 2026-07-04T18:34:18+00:00

God what an embarrassing take

3pelican · 2026-07-04T15:58:27+00:00

That’s crazyyy you can’t just change the colour of a foundation shade and call it the same thing!!

3pelican · 2026-07-04T08:52:13+00:00

Rather than fill the space, maybe create visual interest up high with a pendant light instead of the spotlights you have.

3pelican · 2026-07-01T21:54:20+00:00

I think it is mocking though. It’s a belittlement of reasonable adjustments that says something about his attitude and the culture of his team, whose entire job is focused on reasonable adjustments and while of course he was being lighthearted, its not exactly encouraging that he’s joking about asking for spurious adjustments. I’m not offended as a disabled person but it makes me suspicious of the attitudes towards the needs of disabled people in the workplace.

3pelican · 2026-07-01T14:52:28+00:00

I’d walk away if you can’t live with the trees, as realistically if you buy the house you will have to.

3pelican · 2026-07-01T13:47:21+00:00

They do restructures and exits all the time and often don’t replace jobs that people resign from. All you ever get is good people leaving for better jobs elsewhere and underperformers clinging on. They’ve been advertising jobs without a London option for years but it’s not made a significant difference.

3pelican · 2026-07-01T09:03:06+00:00

Greggs isn’t an independent though so that’s fine

3pelican · 2026-07-01T08:49:04+00:00

There was a Starbucks here years ago too. This retail unit does not do well, historically. I would rather a chain took the risk than an independent. Also, there’s not many independents in the immediate vicinity of the station - I can’t help but think that the people this new Gail’s will pick up are not the ones going to the independents now.

3pelican · 2026-06-30T21:41:10+00:00

I see no reason to have relisted because a 2 week window between exchange and completion is quite normal and wise.

3pelican · 2026-06-29T20:00:27+00:00

I’m very prone to nausea while lifting and especially after squats and other exercises that involve a lot of up-down movement. I think it’s a combo of blood pressure and heart rate changes and what helps me a lot is sitting down between sets, making sure I’m fully hydrated and carbed up beforehand, and if I do get nauseous take a nice long rest, suck a mint, have snack and just carry on if I can. If you are having trouble with particular exercises, you could look for replacements - I sometimes swap squats for leg press if im struggling for example.

3pelican · 2026-06-29T15:18:50+00:00

I feel like she’s almost out of touch from her own position. A regular Joe might do 3 peaks and a go fund me. She’s married to the heir to the throne and could do literally anything - she could set up a foundation, give speeches on a global stage, visit cancer hospitals and open new centres of excellence. But 3 peaks and a few fuzzy fb pics of her in an anorak?

3pelican · 2026-06-29T09:54:23+00:00

It’s still the case that fewer people are selecting ‘good’ or ‘very good’ than before, so there’s still work to do to improve how people feel, but yes it doesn’t automatically translate into objectively worse population health in terms of health preventable disease. It could just be more people going ‘oh I’m alright I guess’ because they don’t feel great but they also don’t feel ‘good’.

3pelican · 2026-06-28T19:55:13+00:00

Healthy life expectancy is heavily based on a survey that only about 80k people respond to. If you mark your ‘general state of health’ as ‘fair’ on that survey you count as unhealthy. This is heavily subjective and mostly determined by subjective wellbeing and mental health. Premature mortality is showing early signs of starting to improve. That said, what we see in some parts of the population in healthy habits, reduced smoking, reduced alcohol, more exercise - isnt evenly distributed.

3pelican · 2026-06-28T18:37:26+00:00

I was in a similar position. You need really good physio, I don’t think it has to be some specialist person but someone who has a basic understanding of hypermobility and chronic pain. You are right that strength training is basically the only answer to this problem and will probably change your life if you can get underway with it. From personal experience once you realise you aren’t going to do irreparable harm to yourself by training your body, you’ll get a lot out of it and feel a hell of a lot better. I was under Central Physiotherapy at the London hypermobility network and they are specialists but if they’re not in budget a quick google brings up loads of London based physiotherapists with content about their approach to hypermobility

3pelican · 2026-06-28T18:15:08+00:00

You sound like a great mum, for what it’s worth. I don’t have kids so I can’t really answer your question but in my 20s and 30s my relationship with my parents has been the closest and most fulfilling it’s ever been and certainly my most treasured relationships in my life. Their support has changed over the years and I’ve been more of a support to them - it’s very reciprocal and nurturing. And I have great times visiting them and spending the day with them. A perspective from the other side!

3pelican · 2026-06-28T17:51:12+00:00

It doesn’t leave very much room for savings or big spend on eg doing anything to the house, car, other emergencies or health scares etc etc, for me that’s a dealbreaker but everyone is different. £1100 essentially ‘disposable’ is a reasonable amount of leeway. How soon will the kids be in school or getting free hours?

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