BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Careful! You'll get me started on poetry again and Brian will be prosaically annoyed

I might be prosaically annoyed
But I think that you might well be buoyed
As you know, I like Rime
And a jolly good time
Iron Maiden can fill up the void.

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/i/status/2029187307438301588

 

[Pross]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...-day-iron-maiden-english-literature-pop-music

I object to Iron Maiden being called pop, otherwise, I also discovered The Rime of the Ancient Mariner via their Powerslave album.

It certainly helped me out when we were studying the poem in school.

 

[briantrumpet]

Looks rather like they learned some useful lessons from the covid contracts awarded under the UK's 'VIP lane' system.

 

[briantrumpet]

For "unsellable" try 'overpriced'. There, that's fixed it. (Gift link below, if you want to read of their distress.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4bee99fdc09063c1

 

[Pblakeney]

For "unsellable" try 'overpriced'. There, that's fixed it. (Gift link below, if you want to read of their distress.)

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4bee99fdc09063c1

A tale of the ages. Any item is only worth what a buyer will pay.

 

[icowden]

For "unsellable" try 'overpriced'. There, that's fixed it. (Gift link below, if you want to read of their distress.)

Journalism at it's finest:-

At €850,000 (£744,404), the Attridges’ house is significantly more expensive than other similar four-bedroom properties in the area, which are typically marketed between €150,000 and €500,000.

Maybe that's because according to the agent:

Designed from scratch and built in 2004, with the owners' use in mind, the home is built upon 3 levels and boasts a total of 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, an open plan kitchen with dining area and amazing veranda with panoramic views, a spacious lounge, a private garage for several cars and store rooms. It is connected to mains electricity and water and in addition benefits from renewable energy by solar panels. It has central underfloor heating throughout and the impressive swimming pool can also be heated

But yes, you can buy similar sized houses for significantly less. In fact you can currently buy a licensed 11 bedroom hotel with pool and 12 acres of land for £705,429. Or a 6 bed detached house with pool for E500k, and loads of 5 beds with pool for <E485,000