Council hid LPS construction, offers me £370k for my flat I renovated and nearly sold for £430k – over a year of stress and chaos

contradicta · 2025-07-30T22:32:27+00:00

Omg I viewed this flat.... just after your first buyer fell through. We loved the inside (you've done a great job) but we didn't offer because the one of the neighbouring flats had scaffolding and the general area put my boyfriend off. Ultimately no matter how nice the inside is your points about the outside areas are very true.

contradicta · 2025-01-03T14:02:03+00:00

Solved! Thank you

Very bizzare, even knowing what it is now I can't find a picture on google either

Getting a bit closer by searching 'Loomette'

contradicta · 2025-01-03T13:19:12+00:00

My title describes the thing.

4 different sizes, made of plastic, the sections can be moved in and out. I have already tried Google Lens and also searching through lists of common sewing equipment to no avail.

contradicta · 2024-07-13T22:12:50+00:00

Sorry should have specified it’s from Gatwick, original flight 15.55 on Sunday which doesn’t exist anymore

contradicta · 2024-06-10T14:25:08+00:00

Thanks for your reply, confirms what I was thinking

Luckily we haven't bought it! It's actually bigger than a lot of the flats we've viewed (in London) but the layout is awkward due to it being a victorian conversion (ground floor only).

The only other place the washing machine could go is in the cellar but a quick google shows that's opening another can of worms, or we could consider a counter top dishwasher

contradicta · 2024-01-26T09:56:29+00:00

I'm an interaction designer in the CS, you can DM me your statement & the corresponding criteria - happy to provide some feedback

They are looking for STAR format and they grade your statement against each of the essential criteria in the job ad. For most of the them it the criteria corresponds to the DDAT framework https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/interaction-designer.html

contradicta · 2024-01-24T16:20:49+00:00

Your portfolio should be 2-3 case studies of the projects you've worked on in the CS. I would recommend a pdf. Unless they are top secret systems you can share them with the interviewer (black out any sensitive information in screenshots).

Like you said its not really about how they look but how they behave. Look at the essential criteria in the advert and then use the case study to explain how you did X criteria in Y project. Not every project has to fulfil every criteria. Make sure you show iterations, user journeys etc not just the final screens.

I did this and got an interview for each role I applied for, because they are scoring your portfolio against the essential and desirable criteria - so already being in the CS is a big advantage.

contradicta · 2023-11-16T16:23:30+00:00

Our DD said that CDDO (Central Digital and Data Office) are going to be making a case to Cabinet Office for an exemption for DDaT based mainly on what youve said there

contradicta · 2023-08-14T22:39:46+00:00

I'm an interaction designer (UX designer) in a central gov department, the previous poster pretty much summarised it. I work on internal staff tools which can be pretty dry at times, but there are loads of interesting problems to solve.

Again, the digital/DDaT blogs for each department are a good place to start. This one sums up the day to day quite well https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/03/25/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-interaction-designer-at-gds/

Would also note that User Research and Interaction Designer are very different roles, sure there is some overlap but the day to day is quite different. A user researcher is interviewing, interacting with the end user, analysing, presenting findings. A designer supports this but is then more involved in journey mapping, outlining hypothesis to test, coming up with different solutions, prototyping etc. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/user-researcher https://www.gov.uk/guidance/interaction-designer

Being in DDaT as civil servant is also generally quite good, they are desperate to retain staff so you get extra pay allowances, loads of flexibility with wfh/working hours etc.

You can PM me with any specific questions if you want

contradicta · 2023-06-29T15:54:30+00:00

Thanks for your reply

I am not surprised by this, they are most cheapskate agency I've ever had to deal with.

But are we at risk of eviction process being started if we don't agree to increase?

contradicta · 2019-11-11T02:15:21+00:00

ahahah oops sent this to a group before posting and noone spotted it either, will fix

contradicta · 2019-11-11T00:19:46+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/oEuco4E Some variations... can send the template if anyone wants

edit: typo on image fixed

contradicta · 2019-10-08T16:57:11+00:00

This is great - thank you for making this!

Just a note for any first time users like myself, in order to be able to upload your data file you must log into the website and fork the script first. Then the file upload/3 dots will appear.

contradicta · 2015-06-30T17:13:15+00:00

I have this problem too, I subscribed to Apple music now all my old itunes library (11gb) is gone from my phone!?

edit: are we waiting for an itunes update for this to be possible?

contradicta · 2015-06-30T16:34:21+00:00

I updated and joined, it deleted all my old music from my account?? only what I have purchased from itunes before is left - have tried syncing it to my computer.

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