u/YupItWasMeMate

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152446355#/?channel=RES\_BUY
Bridge over adorable stream? Check!
Massive fireplaces? Check!
Its own folly? Yup!

Loving this…

I read all these posts about people trying to steal plane seats that you’ve paid for and I always assumed they were made up karma farming nonsense but no, it actually happened to me! Hands down, a woman genuinely tried to blag my window seat with the extra leg room this week.

It was a tiny island hopper plane, so the views are worth paying for, frankly, and I’d nabbed the best seat on the plane, the window seat at the front where you can also see the pilots operating the plane. I got on board and there was Bitcherella, all comfy in my seat and looking firmly out of the window.

“Excuse me,” I said very civilly. “I’m in that seat.”

She feigned deafness.

I said it again a bit louder. She ignored me. I said it very loudly. She continued to survey the runway through the window.

“EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!” I yelled in the voice I usually use when I find my cat Gordon eating the chicken I’m defrosting for dinner. “I’M IN THAT SEAT!!!!!!”

She turned and glared at me.

“Oh,” she said. “Isn’t this 2B?”

I smiled broadly.

“Nope,” I said helpfully.

“Oh,” she said again.

Then she just sat there blinking up at me, all comfy IN MY SEAT.

So I just stood there waiting expectantly until eventually she said: “Would you like to sit in the aisle seat?”

I smiled beatifically.

“No thank you,” I said with tremendous bonhomie.

Then the huffing and sniffing started. She hauled herself out of my chair limb by limb and stood grumpily by while I settled in. Then of course she had to sit next me for the entire flight. Her seat still had extra leg room but no view because my smiling head was blocking the window.

I had the loveliest flight. I admired the coast as we took off, and the little lighthouse that we flew over. I gazed at all the cargo ships in the Channel. I admired the Isle of Wight as we flew over it and the white cliffs as we headed into Southampton airport. She sat with her back to me glaring at the in flight magazine.

I didn’t need a magazine because I had AN ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT VIEW.

I was so polite. I even offered to help her with her bag when we got off. She didn’t smack me in the head with it but I could tell she wanted to.

Edit to pay cat tax! OK OK here is Gordon:

https://i.postimg.cc/433qCvFN/IMG-3540.jpg

Almost everything I select just gives me this message rather than the selection boxes. I can no longer narrow down the search for pretty much anything…