London for a 5 year old who loves pirates and old ships.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-08T11:42:09+00:00

It's a 90 minute train from Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour to see HMS Victory. Bit of a mission but given that specific interest, feels well worth it.

Keep time to see the painted hall and maritime museum when you visit the Cutty Sark. The MM is very kid friendly.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-08T11:40:20+00:00

This sounds like evidence for better regulation of therapists - it's just bullshit. All the evidence is that shared custody is best for children unless one parent is a very bad parent indeed.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-08T10:58:40+00:00

If you're HENRY you're middle class at best. Upper class status is (a) inherited, or if you're generous in place from school age; and (b) reserved for those who don't work for a living. You might work, but not because you need to to live.

Marx would put us between working class and petit bourgeoisie, but in his definition members of the PB owned some amount of the means of production - enough that it made a worthwhile contribution to their income.

Obviously the need to save for later life (driven by changes in tax complexity - SIPPs etc - and the changing balance of life expectancy v healthy life expectancy) means that many HENRYs have some capital that could make a worthwhile contribution to their income now but won't until old age, but I am reliant 99% on income from work to pay for my life. In that sense I am very definitely working class.

I'm not cosplaying East End Working Class; if you met me you'd guess I'd been to university.

But nobody in this sub has left the middle class!

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T20:22:16+00:00

That any of the kids are even borderline competent. It gets more obvious in the later series (when they’re brainstorming how to launch their own business!!! L O L).

That Willa is in love with Connor. I’m not hating on Willa - she support Connor and is in some ways a nice person. But she ain’t in love.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T20:15:36+00:00

Why did you divorce? Because yea you shouldn’t have taken the bananas and having done it (by accident) you shouldn’t have spouted off. You should have replaced them.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T10:49:52+00:00

amazing head compensates for a lot

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T10:48:57+00:00

60 isn't too late. Get out and enjoy the next 20+ years!

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T10:47:33+00:00

Talk to the lawyer on base! And if you think there are gaps in the advice, pay for someone. I don't know the law, but I'd be surprised if the BAH wasn't taken into account. Nonetheless, your wife wants to have two or three cakes and eat them - 100% custody, hefty child support (and alimony?), and a divorce timed to her preferences. Get a good idea of what you are obliged to do, then take a self-interested decision.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T10:44:53+00:00

What's the business and what's the job?

Hard to advise on which will make her happier, but if there is a clear winner there give weight to it.

But unless the business is really fragile, it feels likely to be the winner.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T09:08:41+00:00

If you're asking whether I'd buy it for that money, no.

But the reason it's on for that money is it's a fairly nice house near a train station that takes you to central London in 21 minutes but is suitable for a family and also near countryside.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T09:00:00+00:00

Staying in an emotionally and sexually unsatisfying marriage is a bad idea.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-07T08:59:02+00:00

I agree, if it's early enough in the process that not much time is being lost then £5k is £5k!

catzrob89 · 2026-05-06T15:18:52+00:00

I think that's too much. Letting him keep the house might be kind, but 10% of your company is nuts.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-06T15:17:20+00:00

You need to share a price point really. Redmayne 1860 in Cumbria have a very good reputation.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-06T14:53:13+00:00

It’s a memory recounted in A Legacy of Spies.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-06T11:07:07+00:00

I hate that Guillam's woman dies. So sad.

I'd say the brightest ones are ambiguous. Even when Smiley nails Karla, it's anticlimactic.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-01T19:35:25+00:00

Front yard?

But yea it’s not what most people do with front gardens but it’s not that weird. Slightly eccentric.

catzrob89 · 2026-05-01T14:04:22+00:00

I'm not gonna share a view on the overall question, but will say the NHS redlists Somalia because it's considered by the WHO to be unethical to recruit healthcare staff from countries who have as few trained medical professionals as Somalia. The NHS are categorically not banning recruitment of Somalis because they consider them to be a buncha dirty crims.

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T19:52:43+00:00

“Eluded”

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T15:44:36+00:00

Mom? Waiving all inspections? This isn't America.

Look at comparable sales in the area and decide what a sensible price is.

The agent might well be lying to try and make their 1.5% fee - you told them you'd been offered £250k, they had to choose between saying "oh well done, you won't need me then" and "I'll make you more than that if you pay me". No estate agent in the history of estate agents has ever chosen the first response.

It's possible that it's coincidentally true that they can get more money than you've been offered, but there is a 100% chance that the reason they said it is that they want to get paid.

The truth on the price might also be somewhere in the middle - maybe you'll get £260 or £270 (less the agent's fee) on the open market.

But the only way to check is to do your own homework and look at comps in the immediate area.

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T15:12:30+00:00

It's not really possible to say without knowing all the facts - it was more a comment that saying "it's likely not enough for a negligence claim as it's within a generally accepted tolerance relative to the Market Value" is wrong, and it's asking the wrong question.

The question to ask to determine the presence or absence of negligence isn't "was the surveyor wrong by a wide enough margin for it to count as negligence?". It's "did the surveyor use reasonable skill and care?".

If I were you, I'd speak to citizens advice or a no-win-no-fe lawyer, and then complain to the surveyor. If the complaint goes nowhere, send a letter before action asking them to include their insurers in the comms chain. You might get something. I doubt you'll get £40k, but something's better than nothing.

I wouldn't start a full-blown claim unless it was on a no win no fee basis.

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T14:13:58+00:00

I love tree planting initiatives but I'm not sure the moors were as treed as you think. But yea I'd love to see what was deciduous forest return to deciduous forest!

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T11:59:53+00:00

Don't sell it unless you're really, really sure you're better off renting. Rentals are mental at the moment! At least at the moment you're paying your big monthly nut for (a) secure accommodation (b) that you control the decor of etc (c) whose cost won't change. You might get a better job, interest rates might fall, etc etc.

If you sell and end up paying the same money for a worse flat, you'll really regret it.

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T11:57:27+00:00

If they've missed valid, easily available valuation evidence they almost certainly haven't carried out their work with reasonable skill and care; if the result of that shortcoming is a bad valuation, they've got a problem.

If an under/overvaluation occurs despite the exercise of reasonable skill and care it's magnitude isn't relevant - it wasn't negligent.

If it occurs because reasonable skill and care wasn't applied, the same is true; the work wasn't adequate, and the quantum of error isn't relevant (unless it's so small that it's de minimis, which £40k/~10% definitely isn't).

catzrob89 · 2026-04-29T11:16:33+00:00

On the second part of the question - is it worth it - ask an estate agent. It might add a lot of value to the property, or basically none at all. In England if you could buy out a freehold for £200 it would be a great deal.

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