well fancy that...

so there we were chillin out in front the telli after filling a skip with perfectly useable items luckily though a bloke turned up about two minutes after the skip lorry left to ask if he could take one or two things out - adam said ok and before we knew it he'd backed his van around the corner (hidden conveniently out of sight) and then proceeded to sift anything of any value and put it into his van. this had the effect of us trying to fill a skip which by the time we came to put the next items in it had miraculously emptied itself. maybe thats a sort of reverse angle on how jesus fed the five thousand perhaps a mobile chippy van was parked around the corner!! anyway i don't see that happening in good old exeter maybe because we're too posh down south or perhaps not quite as enterprising! back to the telli because we were watching a programme called under the hammer a documentary where people buy houses at auction and they show what they intend to do with them and it was featuring a house in exeter. ok you may say wow how amazing but then we saw it was 1 grendon buildings just off preston street and we used to live at number 12 for a couple of years when we first moved back to exeter. but then it turned out that the bloke who now lives at number 12 was friends with the people buying number 1 (an ex pet shop right opposite in the little victorian mews) and they wanted to transform number 1 to the same standard as this bloke had done in number 12. so then they did a tour of number 12 as it is now (yes our old house) which was quite bizarre to say the least. its now a very posh glass and stainless steel high tech town house but just shows what you can do with a property with some vision and plenty of dosh. a bit sickening when they sold they pet shop in need of complete renovation for £114500 at auction and it would probably need £50000-£100000 spent to reach the standard of number 12 (we bought number 12 for £9000 and sold it for £18500!! around 1980) so there you go, c'est la vie as the froggies say. they make very good wine having just finished a bottle of chateauueuf-du-pape and listening to my new birthday cd corinne bayley rae which is very good....yeaaaaaa