The Unoriginal Muse » Development Stuff

We built it, and they came.

Graham Dawson — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:03:12 +0000

Interest in the flats has been remarkable. We haven’t put them up for sale at any agencies but we’ve already had a dozen or more people express an interest. One is definite: we’ll be renting the first flat out to a Columbian family who want to send their children to my old school down the road. Someone else has expressed keen interest in the top flat – and they say they have more than enough money to buy it and that they aren’t in a desperate hurry to move, so they can wait until it’s finished.

What did it? There are still flats for sale in the big block behind us, flats for sale all over town in fact that just aren’t moving. The ones across the canal are still a quarter empty and the development further along teh canal is almost half empty too, and just not budging.

The size might be a factor. Those other developments are huge, but the actual flats in them are tiny. I went looking at a couple a while back to see and they’re just pathetic, and badly finished as well. Rush jobs, cheap, shallow, no space… and no storage. Our flats come with a storage room underneath the building, which seems to be almost unique these days. Everyone see’s the storage and their eyes go like this: O.O

It’s a huge selling point. People want storage. They want somewhere to put their junk, because it’s obviously not going to fit inside the house.

Fingers crossed the two flats sell…

What a way to spend the weekend…

Graham Dawson — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:03:12 +0000

Well, I was going to have a fine day today. Lots of plans, I had… yep. Lots of plans. First on the list was a little idea I had, to upgrade my computer a teeny bit.

Now, anyone who knows me knows I use a version of Linux called Gentoo. Gentoo is not for the faint hearted and the clickers of buttons. It is very powerful. What that means is, it’s very easy to bugger up… and that’s what I’ve done. Right now I’m typing this using links, which is a text-based browser. Why am I useing at ext-based browser? Well it seems that my upgrade sort of broke everything. Bang goes the weekend…

Anyhoo, in the meanwhilst there’s some interesting reading going on at Gates of Vienna, and more than likely over at Silent Running too, which makes a change from the silent norm. There’s others as well.

I seem to be a bit short of comment on anything at the moment. This blogging thing is difficult to keep up on a regular basis unless you have a lot of material to work with, or unless you’re the sort of vapid creature that’s capable of talking about yourself for days on end. I am not the latter and I have less of the former than most, as I don’t generally keep up with the news.

If I get my box working properly before the end of the day I may indulge myself for another whisky review. Or I may just do that anyway. Command line isn’t so bad really. I have my music, my browser and other such things…