Flat Hunting

I'm currently enjoying/ enduring* (delete as applicable) flat hunting in London. Thanks to being unfeasibly lucky, I inherited some money that will allow me to buy somewhere in Canary Wharf despite being self employed. I haven't mentioned yet that I work for myself in conjunction with my business partner/ mate Terry (aka the talented one). We've been in business for a couple of years now, but still mortgage lenders laugh in our faces at our puny self-employed financial status. Sad that someone has to die and leave money before someone in our profession can actually buy a place of their own, but that's London for you. If you're looking for a flat in London, I can highly recommend using Felicity J Lord. I have dealt with 2 of their offices and they are the epitome of helpfulness. Quite the opposite of Foxtons in fact, whom I used to work for. They never, ever listen to what you want, instead preferring to try and sell you something they need to get rid of.

Another friend of mine is buying a flat for the same amount of money I'm spending, but in Glasgow. I haven't seen it yet, but fully expect it to be 3 times larger and considerably sexier than whatever I end up with. For those of you thinking "yeah, but it's in Glasgow" I'd urge you to visit the place. It is one of my favourite places in the world and loads more fun than Edinburgh. Why is it that whenever you speak to someone English and say "I live in Glasgow", as I used to, that they say "Oh, have you had a chance to go to Edinburgh yet? My answer would have to be "Yes, I've had the chance, I took it, and found the place to be just like England with Scottish accents. It's a bit dull". Apologies to anyone reading this that might be from Edinburgh. It's not that it's a bad place, it's just not Glasgow.

If you're bored...

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If you can't beat 'em...

Well, after a while of seeing other people's blogs out there, and recently helping a client start writing their own I thought maybe I should practice what I preach. So here it for what it's worth. This is where I intend to type the things that are in my head, share experiences, good and bad, and generally rant about stuff like the highly opinionated individual I am.

I'm also going to be attempting, in a decidedly cack-handed fashion to learn the basics of HTML coding and cascading style sheets while I write this. As an IT Consultant, I really should know the basics.

If you read this, then I'll be surprised, but it beats keeping a diary/ journal the old fashioned way.

James