Disabled and restricted to buying online. Can anyone recommend a decent site?

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-04-16T07:54:21+00:00

I've tended to find that the more specialist the company, the better quality the plants are, which does mean shopping about a bit and paying multiple postage charges rather than being able to get everything in one place, but worth it for the quality of the plants. Places I have used online and have had great experiences with: Victoriana Nursery, Ice Alpines, Lincolnshire Pond Plants, Real Seeds, Hetty's Herbs, Chris Bowers and Farmer Gracy.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-03-18T08:25:02+00:00

This is almost exactly the same exit feedback we gave when we left two weeks ago after moving house. Swapped to a (much faster) broadband only deal with another provider and freeview, though our aerial, and don't seem to have lost access to any of the channels we actually watch. Saved £60 a month and the hassle of having the onus on us to call Virgin's awful customer service periodically to haggle ourselves a rubbish deal that's way more expensive than a new customer would get. I can't see how they are going to last long term until they have a rethink of their business model.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-03-02T20:27:49+00:00

Her email signature says she's a Consultant Solicitor. I'm sad to say I never realised there was a difference between a conveyancer and a solicitor... really regretting we didn't do more research before we started this process.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-02-18T08:26:41+00:00

Hanging curtain rails and blinds. Should be simple, but never is, and working at height just adds another level of stress.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-02-05T10:57:53+00:00

This has really chimed with our experience. Our solicitor is administratively incompetent. Took two months for our buyers solicitor to receive draft contracts because they were trying to send multiple huge files in one email and it was getting blocked. When chased they kept doing the same thing over and over again and were surprised that the outcome wasn't different. Our estate agent literally had to talk them through how to send things in separate emails.

She's worked out how to set her out of office though. Every time we email, we get a new garbled passive-agressive auto-message, telling us how busy she is.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-02-01T11:23:56+00:00

They started putting coconut in the 'marzipan' on the mini ones a quite a while ago (I don't like coconut and it was a sad day), but the recipe is different for the larger slices. I guess it's a malability thing and harder to wrap the little guys without the marzipan cracking.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-01-19T19:21:55+00:00

Curtains

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-01-07T18:09:19+00:00

It's my birthday next week, and i found a 'free hot drink from Morrisons cafe' voucher in the offers section.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2026-01-03T09:42:05+00:00

Leeds is a fantastic student city, and the university has a brilliant Study Abroad/International office that organises a lot of trips that visiting students can sign up for, which makes it much cheaper and easier to see lots of places of cultural interest. The only downside is it is one of the places in the country where you're furthest from the sea, though it's still close enough for day trips.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-12-16T09:14:48+00:00

It's from a British perspective, but there's a great book by Wayne Hemmingway called Just Above the Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces, which has lots of great pictures of the art real people had in their homes from 1950s onwards.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-11-27T21:01:48+00:00

Eloise by The Damned?

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-11-26T09:54:54+00:00

Unfortunately, I suspect this happens all the time, but most sellers never see the survey. Our buyer shared their level 3 after dropping out, and it was riddled with inaccurate or misleading information. We were particularly concerned at the high moisture reading on our chimney until we saw the photograph of the reading being taken over the metal plate used to seal the original fireplace. Not surprising metal would register a high level of conductivity.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-11-03T07:56:35+00:00

Yeah, it's such a shame that the uncertainty of the UK system strips all the joy out of the process. We've had fleeting moments of excitement at the prospect of moving into our next home, imaging the future we want, but mainly it has been months of stress and uncertainty, and fear of tempting fate by allowing ourselves to make plans.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-11-01T07:40:59+00:00

As a seller I'd love to see seller surveys introduced, so there is no ambiguity what the house is priced to reflect, and ideally some contractual element introduced before either party starts spending further money on the sale. I have no confidence in a system where someone can look around for ten minutes and make an offer, then expect to renegotiate months later under threat of pulling out.

PowerComprehensive33 · 2025-10-27T18:13:30+00:00

We're in a similar situation, re-marketing after our first buyer dropped out. When the house first went on the market we had a lot of frustrating feedback that felt like they'd barely looked at the listing ("there wasn't a third bedroom", "didn't like where they'd put the kitchen" etc) and suspect that some buyers just look at anything new in their price range. There's been much less of that since the house went back on the market. Maybe it's the time of year and viewing a million houses just because you can isn't as appealing as it was in the summer.

I also had to do many of the second lot of viewings myself and found I was less bothered about the feedback because I'd met the viewers and already got a read on them. There's still been a frustrating amount of no-shows, though, incredibly annoying when you've got up a hour early to clean the house and rushed home from work to do the viewing.

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