There was that chap who started off with the Northumberland nationalists and ended up with the very firmly unionist Slab and then Scottish Tories. (View Post)

Quite right re the mines. Tiddly little partly worked out ones were replaced en masse by a very few superpits hereabouts. It's a process I well remember from when I were younger. The superpits were r… (View Post)

Only with the boost of North Sea oil, though. Any fool could do a lot with North Sea oil money. No sovereign wealth fund, either. Compare and contrast: Norway. (View Post)

I'd been prepared for the issue by the experiences of a friend whose parents died younger than mine. But we did get a pro valuer in - partly to get the cast iron valuation for IHT (not that it was ne… (View Post)

TBF the fire cert is actually a label - not a piece of paperwork. But it is an issue. Another problem with upholstery is whether the owners were smokers. Impossible to get the smell out. (View Post)