Tried to buy a house ...

Went to view a house.

The home value was £380,000, asking for offers over £275,000 £375,000, not had any offers for a year.

Offered £365,000 – sellers declined.

Offered £370,000 – sellers declined, indicating they were looking for £380,000.

Offered £380,000 – sellers declined, and took the house off the market.

So that was a big waste of time then.

EDIT: I HAVE MADE A HUGE ERROR! It was offers over "£375,000", not "£275,000". Apologies!

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Pair of desirable collectables

Refuelled alongside this beauty on the weekend. The owner was bemoaning the lack of E5 petrol ... hopefully the gaskets and whatnot survived ok.

u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 19 days ago

The Bookseller's Bullying Survey: staff welfare an issue for sector, as Hachette and Sweet Cherry are singled out for criticism

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/the-booksellers-bullying-survey-staff-welfare-an-issue-for-sector-as-hachette-and-sweet-cherry-are-singled-out-for-criticism

>... pervasive use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) ... 69% of respondents to the survey said bullying "has happened to me" ... Of the big groups, Hachette was referenced more than most, with some describing its tough working environment as an “open secret”. ... The Leicestershire children’s publisher Sweet Cherry was not mentioned by name in the survey directly, but five people came forward about their experiences following the survey’s closure, a high number given the independent’s size, believed to be fewer than 30 staff members at the time (it was later confirmed that three survey responses were about Sweet Cherry). ... One former employee alleged "inappropriate jokes about staff members’ mental health" at Sweet Cherry and claimed that "inappropriate jokes and sexual innuendoes were commonplace". The Bookseller has seen screenshots from a member of senior management’s social media supporting this assertion.

Not a pretty picture.

u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 1 month ago

F01 740d 2009 missing fixings

Just spotted that she's missing three fixings for a panel on the RHS rear of the engine bay.

Can anyone point me to a part number for these?

Thank'ee

u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 2 months ago

Sweet Cherry redundancies ...

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sweet-cherry-made-quarter-of-staff-redundant-after-repositioning-financial-results-show

From the accounts https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07822004/filing-history/MzUxNDMyNDk1M2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0 (PDF)

>A comprehensive review of the business was conducted by the director during the year. He concluded that a significant proportion of the book titles held in stock are no longer marketable and its valuation should be reflected in the financial statements. Also, the loan from a related party is written off. The number of staff employed by the business was also reduced by just over 27% during the last four months of the year.

Bit grim.

u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 2 months ago

Oil change? Or no.

F01 740D, 2009, 50k miles.

Bit of history – bought the car at 25k miles maybe 6 years ago, clearly very low mileage for a few years before.

After buying it it threw a high oil level alarm, so clearly some diesel getting in there I guess (?), and the service place (a BMW dealer) said it was a software problem, changed the oil etc.. Hmmm. For various reasons I think they were full of shit, but there you go.

More recently I started bunging diesel fuel treatment in, and the mileage on long runs went from 34mpg to 40mpg, so that clearly fixed something.

Only 5,000 miles and one year since the last oil change, but the oil level is right at the upper limit and I'm wondering about throwing an oil change at her again in case that's diesel in there from a problem that the fuel cleaner might have fixed.

Am I fussing too much?

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u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 2 months ago

Great news for me

I drove 1,216 miles since Friday morning, on a combination of motorways including the M90, M40, M74, M4, M42, M6(Toll), M5, M6, A74(M), and many back roads, and so far nobody has uploaded a video of me doing anything reckless, inconsiderate, ignorant, exuberant, or incompetent to Reddit even though I was driving a black BMW 740D.

I hope everyone else had a successful motoring weekend.

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u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 2 months ago

Something I've recently noticed

I've recently noticed people noticing things recently more.

Has anyone else recently noticed this? It seems really noticeable. Recently.

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u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 2 months ago
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Tip on monitoring ActiveRecord activity

I needed to run a whole bunch of code on the console and detect whether it was causing particular forms of SQL to be sent to the database, without viewing the logs by setting `Rails.logger.level=0` (too much noise on the console)

ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe("sql.active_record") do |*args|
  puts "book deleted" if /DELETE.*BOOKS/i.match?(args.last[:sql])
  puts "book created" if /INSERT.*BOOKS/i.match?(args.last[:sql])
end

That's it. Enjoy.

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u/Zestyclose-Turn-3576 — 3 months ago