Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

no company mentioned, but you guys may find this interesting - from a national agency newsboard ....

‘New type’ of agency botches sale of home after giving sellers wrong advice
February 7, 2018 | Rosalind Renshaw

A property professional from an unidentified “new type” of agency is alleged to have caused the sale of a couple’s home to be delayed by months.
The agent apparently advised that the sellers go straight to market – as they did.
For the next six months, they had just two viewings, while it turned out that the agent had less than a year’s experience, was based over 100 miles away and had already been paid the commission upfront.
The brochure of the couple’s house contained poor photography and was misleading about the square footage of the property, as a whole floor had been left out of the calculations.
**********, who took over the instruction after the couple’s own business circumstances worsened, said: “The client was unaware that his home was being undersold.
“The ineptitude meant that the client had missed valuable marketing time and had exposed the property to the online search portals – which meant that a digital footprint of the sale had been created and could not be deleted.
“New enquiries would see this and as a result could be put off, as they would query why the property hadn’t sold.”
*******, writing in the *************, says he sent the agent packing, and secured a refund of the couple’s up-front fee. Outline planning permission was then achieved for a value-adding extension, and the property has now sold.

Any idea who it is?

of course but it would not be right to name as it is not in the article either

I'm sure a few of us on here enjoy watching a good TV programme of an evening. If so, one or two of you might like this.

Inside last night's £25m "Silent Witness" house:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5366529/Inside-25-million-Silent-Witness-mansion.html

Here are just a couple of 'taster photos':

is it Purple Bricks. It must be as their stock got ravaged the other day. That was of course until CI and IG compulsory closed all the shorts as someone wanted their borrowed stock back

excellent programme last night Millionaire Immigrant Employer or somesuch

From today's DT.

Britain has effectively washed its hands of Isil executioners Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh and will not stand in the way of any moves to extradite them to the US, The Daily Telegraph understands.
The two Londoners have been stripped of their British citizenship, rendering them stateless, and sources say it is "very unlikely" any attempt will be made to bring them to the UK to stand trial for their alleged part in the deaths of British hostages.
The two men, who were captured by Kurdish forces in Syria last month, were part of a quartet of British jihadis nicknamed The Beatles by hostages because of their English accents.
The notorious death squad is believed to have tortured and beheaded more than 27 victims including British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines and American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Hardly Londoners, just ragbags that happened to have lived in London. Lets hope the Americans string them up for the murders of Foley et al. If they happened to be tried here they would be out on the street again after 10 years.

excellent ..... bring them to uk and we'ld be hamstrung by the bleeding hearts and ehcr and similar

i'm sure fred will bleat about how unfair it all is

USA is the best place for them ,they dish out 150 year sentences there not like here where we worry about their human rights and they end up being able to sue us.

I was just wondering if you were a pair of ratbags?

in my case, just a hard-working wandering jew:-)

You must have tears in your eyes.

don't have over-tight underwear either

You probably wouldn't notice if you did.

in that case, i wouldn't have tears in my eyes

Just laughed my head off over that one cynic , brill .

:-)

Carnaval starts tonight in Rio. 35c

I was wondering if in the spirit of the winter Olympics whether Jong will invade the south just straight after the games.....surely.... isn't that fashionable nowadays ?....

Fantastic the carnival....would love to see that in all its glory !....