Manky Monkey Motors

 :(
Just had a call from the estate agent to say the buyer of my flat's pulled out.
Bugger, bugger, bugger.
So Tazet & I are plunged into financial crisis until we can find another buyer. Really struggling to find the money for mortgage & bills. We've both borrowed up to the hilt & we're literally counting pennies now. So no dream American holiday, the Pop project will have to go on hold for a few months more & I can't even afford nuts & bolts to put the trike together.
Bugger.
And the Post Office union's announced more strikes, for which we don't get paid. Marvellous.

thats s**t news :( really sorry to hear :( lets hope there's some other one round the corner :)

So do we.  :'(
At least the Solicitor has all the paperwork ready just last years accounts of the maintenance charges to get so that will reduce time next time round by a few weeks we hope.

Not much I can say - except get it back on the market fast!  And good luck with the next one.  Pity we don't have a system like Scotland where once you say you'll buy it there's virtually a contract.

STOP PRESS!

While Taz & I were in the garage this afternoon playing with the trike, I got a phone call from the estate agent. They've contacted one of the other people who'd viewed my flat, (another buy to rent landlord), & they've jumped at it, offering the full asking price again.
Woo Hoo! We're trying not to get our hopes up, but looks like everything might be back on again. It'll probably be too late to save our holiday, but hopefully we can just about scrape through financially until things are finalised.
More on the Manky soap opera as it unfolds.  :D

Yeah, like bikergran says up here in Scotland once you agree to buy thats a contract,   if you pull out we send the boys round!!

Same as France, I would have had to pay £17K if I had backed out...as I nearly had to after the fecker in the uk backed out on my sale.

Best of luck MM

Give me some bolt sizes and I will post you some.....
All I can offer Im afraid apart from a free holiday here when the sale goes through

We might just take you up on that holiday offer matey. Thank you.   ;D
Took a little bag of bolts to the HotRod Drags at the weekend to match up threads, but there weren't any bolt stalls amongst the traders. Only small stuff like the SU carb float bowl top bolts. I think they're a BA thread but not sure which one. Any ideas?

So sorry mate, hope it goes better this time ::)

hi you two  ;D
 i hope it goes well this time. dont worry about not being in scotland....if the next one pulls out...we wont send the boys round, we will go round ourselves ;) 8)
best of luck
 :-*

Thanks guys.
Apparently the ground rent/maintenance charges we pay are far higher than they should be for little studio apartments like mine, which is what scared off the last guy. My solicitor's already acting on behalf of someone else in the flats, who's demanding to know where the management company have spent the money, as bugger all maintenance is ever done. The management company have just handed over the maintenance contract to a small local company, so maybe they know they can't justify the charges? Not very helpful when I'm trying to sell the place.
Fortunately our new buyer already owns another flat in the same complex so should know exactly how much the bills come to. I just can't afford to keep the flat on -three quarters of my wage goes on just keeping a roof over my head, so the sooner it's offloaded the better. 

hmm fingers crossed for u guys then, "i prolly missed this bit "  is the garden clearout your new home to go to?

 ;D
Hi VB.
Tazet is head groom/stable manager/general dogsbody, for Lord Onslow at Clandon Park, just outside Guildford. She's got a rent-free cottage in the grounds -a bit run down, but hey, it's free! At the back is a 100 foot long garden with a large shed at the bottom. Behind the shed is about 30 feet of brambles & small trees, then an access road to some more cottages. Taz has got permission from her boss to cut the undergrowth & create vehicle access to the garden, so we can bring trikes & stuff in.
So as soon as my flat's sold I'll move in with her & we'll hopefully be a damn sight better off!
Come & join us for the clearance/BBQ/get together.

Bloody hell!! that'll great for u both, i sorted added myself to the thread thats on about the garden clearance thingy i felt a tad cheeky as i dont now any of you,and aint been on these forums long, is there space to stay over? hopefully i'll be there :)

Don't worry about it VB this will be a good chance for you to meet some of us and us to meet you. I'm sure there will be somewhere to kip. Bring a tent just in case  ;D

Hi VB, it doesn't matter that you don't know anyone, its great that you've decided to stick around though.  If you can make the garden clearance that would be cool.  Don't forget to bring cake as a home-warming offering.  ;D oh and chocolate.  ;)

Cake for all the other Monkeys of course. Not for me. I never touch the stuff.
Honest.
Ahem.  :P

Psst, choocie cake's good & I like Jaffa Cakes.  ;)

dont forget the cream then :)

Now you're talking.  ;D

Jaffa Cakes & cream?  ...yeah, why not.  :P

I once dipped a couple of digestive biscuits into a pot of cream, until Jacko caught what I was doing.  All I can say is "Ouch!"

Dark chocolate digestives. Proper McVities ones, not cheap supermarket own brand imitations. Eaten in pairs to form a choccie sandwich -mmm!
Pringles have to be eaten two by two too, to get the proper level of crunchiness.

it is advisable to eat certain flavours in 4x4  ;) ;D

Yup, but obviously that procedure should only be attempted by experienced Pringle eaters.
Texas BBQ sauce flavour's the one for me.

WIMPS! - so you don't recommend grabbing a handful and shoving them all in at once then for ear shattering crunchiness. HA HA HA

See that's why Dave never takes you to posh restaurants!  :P

not true, dave said he has taken her twice.....second time to apologise  ;D ;D ;D

There is only one way to eat Jaffa cakes and I will bring the teqila for it!

Well you lot will be on your own. I don't like Jaffa cakes. But will have a go at the Pringles and cakes.

any tried kitkats this way.. bite off the two ends and then suck yer cuppa tea through it "briefly" then get it in yer gob before it melts

Urk! I don't like tea or coffee. What a waste of good chocolate.
4 Chunky KitKats, side by side to form a giant 4 finger KitKat.  :)