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over a year ago
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!"
If he hadn't been such an arse, got an architect in from day one and stopped changing his mind then it probably would have been finished before the crash. It was his own fault, and I doubt he'll ever feature on a future revisited programme. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!
If he hadn't been such an arse, got an architect in from day one and stopped changing his mind then it probably would have been finished before the crash. It was his own fault, and I doubt he'll ever feature on a future revisited programme."
There is that. But what a setting for a home! Jacuzzi in a turret would be cool. I also can't watch these shows without thinking what a great swingers club some would make!  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!
If he hadn't been such an arse, got an architect in from day one and stopped changing his mind then it probably would have been finished before the crash. It was his own fault, and I doubt he'll ever feature on a future revisited programme.
There is that. But what a setting for a home! Jacuzzi in a turret would be cool. I also can't watch these shows without thinking what a great swingers club some would make! "
We all need to chip in and buy it from him as a Fab retreat. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!
If he hadn't been such an arse, got an architect in from day one and stopped changing his mind then it probably would have been finished before the crash. It was his own fault, and I doubt he'll ever feature on a future revisited programme.
There is that. But what a setting for a home! Jacuzzi in a turret would be cool. I also can't watch these shows without thinking what a great swingers club some would make! "
That placd would be awesome wouldn't it? Put a jacuzzi on the roof and have covered outdoor play area! And all the rooms it had in it, plenty of places for a bar. Get some huge shaggy rugs for in front of the fire during winter. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!
If he hadn't been such an arse, got an architect in from day one and stopped changing his mind then it probably would have been finished before the crash. It was his own fault, and I doubt he'll ever feature on a future revisited programme.
There is that. But what a setting for a home! Jacuzzi in a turret would be cool. I also can't watch these shows without thinking what a great swingers club some would make!
That placd would be awesome wouldn't it? Put a jacuzzi on the roof and have covered outdoor play area! And all the rooms it had in it, plenty of places for a bar. Get some huge shaggy rugs for in front of the fire during winter. "
sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment  |
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By *obletonMan
over a year ago
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sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment "
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses |
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I love architecture but some times is so frustrating knowing that most of he people on this programme don't actually appreciate the power of good architecture.
The drawing out of the spirt that is unique to that spot in this beautiful land is a skill
Give me the money and I will show you the sublime
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Starting with a castle that is a folly. Fabulous.
Lovely place. Shame about the collapse of the banking system preventing him finishing it!"
Delaying him finishing it you mean. The house isn't going anywhere.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses"
Someone get out of the wrong side of the bed? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses"
Well thats us told.
Calm down dear, You do realise that no one was being serious don't you?
Next series of Dragons den has a tranny and another bloke pitching for half a million to open a fuck palace. Can't see it myself. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses"
Jesus!!! I second the Calm down dearie!!!! 
Have u ever heard of humour darling?? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"
sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses
Well thats us told.
Calm down dear, You do realise that no one was being serious don't you?
Next series of Dragons den has a tranny and another bloke pitching for half a million to open a fuck palace. Can't see it myself. "
Jodie, I was being serious! You can sort the furnishings, I will run the bar. I dont want Deborah Meadon or Duncan bannatyne on board, cant stand either of them and they dont seem to know how to have fun.
I think our best bet is Hilary DeVey. Not only does she look like she has partied, but we could use her as a gargoyle as well. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"
sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses
Jesus!!! I second the Calm down dearie!!!!
Have u ever heard of humour darling??"
Jealousy trumps humour every time with some people |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"
sounds like a plan, lets get on Dragons Den for some investment
Oooh yeah - can see it now
"so you want to take a hugely impractical, energy inefficient crumbling relic that's goin to have enormous planning headaches, local resistance and huge bills - spend a fortune on it - in order to create a business that's been done before and never realised much of a profit ...... fucking genuis mate"
pass - you must be joking
pass - are you an idiot?
pass - do you think I'M an idiot?
pass - I'm not even going to grace such idiocy with an reply
seriously - it's just property porn - people with more money than sense pumping cash into gradiose pipe dreams that inflate their already over inflated egos.
fuck grand designs - fuck it and the people in it in their stupid arses
Well thats us told.
Calm down dear, You do realise that no one was being serious don't you?
Next series of Dragons den has a tranny and another bloke pitching for half a million to open a fuck palace. Can't see it myself.
Jodie, I was being serious! You can sort the furnishings, I will run the bar. I dont want Deborah Meadon or Duncan bannatyne on board, cant stand either of them and they dont seem to know how to have fun.
I think our best bet is Hilary DeVey. Not only does she look like she has partied, but we could use her as a gargoyle as well. "
Hilary could provide the transport too. Win Win. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Anyone watching this week?
Who else had the feeling that the ex husband was going to shaft them?"
SKY plus'd it. Been enjoying Kevin's Man Made Home as well. |
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When it started I thought I'd not even want to put up a set of shelves for this couple....was expecting lots of hassle between them and the contractors ...but it all seems to be going swimmingly .....still 15 mins left to go though.. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"When it started I thought I'd not even want to put up a set of shelves for this couple....was expecting lots of hassle between them and the contractors ...but it all seems to be going swimmingly .....still 15 mins left to go though.."
They have the neighbours from hell for planning permission. I think it looks great on the inside and I like the outside but I wish the deck had been made of wood and not plastic. I just want to run a comb through her hair, it's been annoying me. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"" I wish the deck had been made of wood and not plastic. I just want to run a comb through her hair, it's been annoying me."
The deck will be made out of wood within 5 years. I've seen that plastic stuff and it gets really badly affected by sunlight...she won't stand it in a few years time when it is almost white.
Wondering how long new hubbie will last ....he'll be ok providing he does as he's told.
Sorry E I thought too many bits of inside looked like the reception area of a multi-national company..... just needed the company propaganda on the voice activated TVs.
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I couldn't live there, I'd be worrying about the basement flooding and the neighbours drilling holes to ensure it happens. I can appreciate that sort out home for some. She wanted it to look like it came from a design magazine and it did look just like that. |
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v" I wish the deck had been made of wood and not plastic. I just want to run a comb through her hair, it's been annoying me."
The deck will be made out of wood within 5 years. I've seen that plastic stuff and it gets really badly affected by sunlight...she won't stand it in a few years time when it is almost white.
Wondering how long new hubbie will last ....he'll be ok providing he does as he's told.
Sorry Lickety I thought too many bits of inside looked like the reception area of a multi-national company..... just needed the company propaganda on the voice activated TVs. |
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"I couldn't live there, I'd be worrying about the basement flooding and the neighbours drilling holes to ensure it happens. I can appreciate that sort out home for some. She wanted it to look like it came from a design magazine and it did look just like that."
She certainly got the design magazine look..and I think the neighbours would all have bought long drills to make sure they get through the walls....althoughI think it is mainly the building they don't like..not necessarily them (her) personally although she seems to think itis they the neighbours hate.... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Oooo showing Abbey Mills. I've been there a few times and it is sumptuous. I have been past this tower in the past but I'm going to have to go back and look at it again now."
I like the idea of living in a water tower, it would only be trumped by a lighthouse |
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"The grandest Grand Design ever - how exciting!
already £500k short and thats just digging a hole!!!  "
LOL it made me laugh when they said they had gone down 4 metres and they were just above one of the underground lines, imagine the chaos if they had drilled through....
and 1/2 million short on what turned out to be a 2 million project to build a house, he was spending more a week than most people earn in a year. Mind you I wouldn't mind meeting his mate who lent him 1/2 million pounds.... |
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"Oooo showing Abbey Mills. I've been there a few times and it is sumptuous. I have been past this tower in the past but I'm going to have to go back and look at it again now."
ooo i'd confused it with merton abbey mills a completely different place didn't think I'd seen the building before....silly me.... |
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"1/2 million short on what turned out to be a 2 million project to build a house, he was spending more a week than most people earn in a year. Mind you I wouldn't mind meeting his mate who lent him 1/2 million pounds...."
aye but he was originally 1/2 a million short on what he thought was going to be a 1 million pound project...and then spent another million on it.....class real class....I do live in a completely different world... |
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"This one really does look like more money than sense."
Summed it up
" Oh to have someone to bank roll all of your desires "
And wasted a lot of it I think....
One thing summed up the whole thing for me...the gorgeous cast iron newel post.....or at least it was till she covered it in chrome.....yuckity yuckity yuck yuck yuck.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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""This one really does look like more money than sense."
Summed it up
" Oh to have someone to bank roll all of your desires "
And wasted a lot of it I think....
One thing summed up the whole thing for me...the gorgeous cast iron newel post.....or at least it was till she covered it in chrome.....yuckity yuckity yuck yuck yuck.
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She wanted it to be shiny! There isn't an emoticon on here for the face I want to pull at that. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Def one of the best shows on C4! What are some of the most memorable builds ppl have? Mine is def the house with the inverted roof a few seasons back..where it rained before it was sealed!"
A friend had their house on their. A Miami style home in Exmouth. Its a lovely home |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Too cold for me. I loved the cinema and master bedroom.
More money than sense, but bet because of its size its worth millions"
Not just its size. Its location would mean each floor is worth about a million in its own right. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Def one of the best shows on C4! What are some of the most memorable builds ppl have? Mine is def the house with the inverted roof a few seasons back..where it rained before it was sealed!"
I have a soft spot for the charcoal burners house in the woods. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Such a beautiful location this week."
I asked why build there it looked so bleak.... That was until the camera panned round and showed the views.... I saw why... Stunning dont come close!!! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Such a beautiful location this week.
I asked why build there it looked so bleak.... That was until the camera panned round and showed the views.... I saw why... Stunning dont come close!!!"
I loved the house too. Can you imagine waking up in that bed every morning and then just looking out of the window? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Such a beautiful location this week.
I asked why build there it looked so bleak.... That was until the camera panned round and showed the views.... I saw why... Stunning dont come close!!!
I loved the house too. Can you imagine waking up in that bed every morning and then just looking out of the window?"
Couldn't agree more it would make for a great start to every morning |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We just watched it. What an amazing island and stunning views. Very nice house, perfcet for them, would make a great holiday home to escape the world.
I was waiting to see if that guy DrMoreau who used to be on here was gonna be a neighbour! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"We just watched it. What an amazing island and stunning views. Very nice house, perfcet for them, would make a great holiday home to escape the world.
I was waiting to see if that guy DrMoreau who used to be on here was gonna be a neighbour! "
That would have been great! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We just watched it. What an amazing island and stunning views. Very nice house, perfcet for them, would make a great holiday home to escape the world.
I was waiting to see if that guy DrMoreau who used to be on here was gonna be a neighbour!
That would have been great!"
And a nice talking point for kevin! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Where do they all get their money from to build these Grand Designs ?
Same with that Kirsty and Phil malarky
'Janet works part-time as a school librarian and John drives a minibus for the local variety club. They have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a parrot and a baby on the way. They have a budget of £1.2 million'
I think I should write in and see if they can find me anywhere - or better still see if they can find me one of these part time jobs that pay enough for me to move into a stately home'
And don't even get me started on A Place in The Sun or A place in The Country or by the Sea whether it be at home or away. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Where do they all get their money from to build these Grand Designs ?
Same with that Kirsty and Phil malarky
'Janet works part-time as a school librarian and John drives a minibus for the local variety club. They have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a parrot and a baby on the way. They have a budget of £1.2 million'
I think I should write in and see if they can find me anywhere - or better still see if they can find me one of these part time jobs that pay enough for me to move into a stately home'
And don't even get me started on A Place in The Sun or A place in The Country or by the Sea whether it be at home or away."
You really are getting your rant quotient before you go on holiday!
I do know what you mean... I want one of those part-time jobs too. |
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"Where do they all get their money from to build these Grand Designs ?
Same with that Kirsty and Phil malarky
'Janet works part-time as a school librarian and John drives a minibus for the local variety club. They have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a parrot and a baby on the way. They have a budget of £1.2 million'
I think I should write in and see if they can find me anywhere - or better still see if they can find me one of these part time jobs that pay enough for me to move into a stately home'
And don't even get me started on A Place in The Sun or A place in The Country or by the Sea whether it be at home or away.
You really are getting your rant quotient before you go on holiday!
I do know what you mean... I want one of those part-time jobs too."
I think you can only get on them programmes if you want either stables and room for horses or if you want space to run a business from home.
They seem like pre-requisites.
And being a graphic designer helps - that seems a popular line of work to be in for house hunters these days.
As you can see, I have my cynical head on tonight |
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"Where do they all get their money from to build these Grand Designs ?
Same with that Kirsty and Phil malarky
'Janet works part-time as a school librarian and John drives a minibus for the local variety club. They have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a parrot and a baby on the way. They have a budget of £1.2 million'
I think I should write in and see if they can find me anywhere - or better still see if they can find me one of these part time jobs that pay enough for me to move into a stately home'
And don't even get me started on A Place in The Sun or A place in The Country or by the Sea whether it be at home or away."
but Kirsty is a bit 'well hello' though..  |
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but Kirsty is a bit 'well hello' though..
I hear ya, but, like some of the properties she showcases, I have a feeling she could be high maintenance "
probably nothing that a good thrashing over ones knee could'nt resolve
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By (user no longer on site)
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"New series starts tomorrow. One of my fav shows on TV!"
Love tonight's and wish I could get my neighbours to pat £500 a month to rent 1metre of my back garden. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Yuk yuk yukity yuk. IMHO the worst house he has ever had on there. It ended up looking like a house at the ideal home exhibition, you know, a house in a warehouse.
If I were the neighbours whose house they made leak for 8 months, I think I would have wrapped one of their girders around their heads |
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