On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:33:33 -0600, Paul Orrock pa...@digitalcraftsmen.net
wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli
* I hear Vespas are good :-)
I want a jet powered hoverboard[0], because it has the power to work on
water [1]
:-)
P.
[0] -
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 17:45 +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:38:34PM +, Tom Barrett wrote:
2009/11/20 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com
FWIW, I'm finding Lloyds to provide an acceptable level of service for
After my personal experience with Lloyds, I rank them as
2009/11/24 Mike Woods m...@geofront.co.uk:
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote:
All we have is a 2 deck gun in the yard of a hire shop.
On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural
salvage place with a Bloodhound missile.
Roger Burton West wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:54:22PM +, Mike Woods wrote:
Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost,
last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost ?2.50!!*
Much the same here in Darkest Wycombe.
High or West ?
Basically
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote:
All we have is a 2 deck gun in the yard of a hire shop.
On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural
salvage place with a Bloodhound missile.
There is? Whereabouts?
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 21:54:32 Mike Woods wrote:
Years ago there used to be a company called bulldog who sold odd
salvage etc, at one point their catalog included cheiftan tank
targeting lasers and some disarmed missiles, ah those where the days!
It's good to hear someone
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:31 +, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote:
All we have is a 2 deck gun in the yard of a hire shop.
On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural
salvage place with a
2009/11/19 Dermot paik...@googlemail.com:
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net:
Hi all!
Some questions I have:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
Another one to avoid : Felicity J Lord, I wouldn't deal with them
again on
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli
- anything else a foreigner really ought to know?
Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport
as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London,
all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli
* I hear Vespas are good :-)
I want a jet powered hoverboard[0], because it has the power to work on
water [1]
:-)
P.
[0] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tUB1f3ICow
[1] - I'm assuming most people get this
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport
as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London,
all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is far, far better.
If you do go the public transport route most places can be
Mike Woods wrote:
If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached
within an hour
Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The
flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes about
an hour to reach.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet
2009/11/24 Mike Woods m...@geofront.co.uk:
If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached within an
hour, and while people will whinge about works etc (because it's so much
better broken ?) most of the time a quick look at the tube map will provide
an alternate route.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote:
Mike Woods wrote:
If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached
within an hour
Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The
flip side of that is that pretty much
2009/11/24 Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com:
Mike Woods wrote:
If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached
within an hour
Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The
flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes about
an
Dominic Thoreau writes:
I've been in Britain for 8 years now, and I know the biggest lie in
the country.
How are you?
Oh, can't complain
The Brit can always complain, but mostly it's about things that don't
really matter. It's when the complaining stops that they're really
pi$$ed
Dermot wrote:
2009/11/24 Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com:
Mike Woods wrote:
If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached
within an hour
Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The
flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London
On 2009-11-24 Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote:
Ah, walking distance doesn't count as travel. Oh that's another point
for our original poster - you will walk lots in London. If it takes
less than 15 mins to walk somewhere, just do that (unless somewhere is
another tube station on the
On 24 Nov 2009, at 12:26, Dermot wrote:
[...]
Normally I'd agree but apparently according to tfl.gov.uk it will take
me 24 minutes from w9 to w2 3RL - for Crispy Duck not Dim Sum - by
bus and 28mins to walk.
To get a sensible routing, you have to go to Advanced options and
uncheck Bus.
Richard Huxton wrote:
Oh, and don't automatically assume a cab is quicker than either of the
above.
(*) Bloody hackers are all pedants.
But do find a decent cab company and stick with it, some of them are
just a little bit worrying!
Mike Woods
Full of squishy
From: Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com
Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 12:17:27
Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport
as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London,
all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is far, far better.
I've
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:29, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
[...]
Of course, my opinion might be slightly biased by the fact that most
of my life I've used public transport in third world countries,
where, I can assure you, everybody prefers to have a car and handle
the maintenance burden and the
Peter Corlett wrote:
That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside of
London.
Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost,
last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost £2.50!!*
* However if you look to your right for most of the
Peter Corlett wrote:
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:29, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
[...]
Of course, my opinion might be slightly biased by the fact that most
of my life I've used public transport in third world countries,
where, I can assure you, everybody prefers to have a car and handle
the
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:54:22PM +, Mike Woods wrote:
Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost,
last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost ?2.50!!*
Much the same here in Darkest Wycombe. Basically if there are two or
more people going between my
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:54, Mike Woods wrote:
Peter Corlett wrote:
That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside
of London.
Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the
cost, last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost £2.50!!*
Sucker. It's
From: Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net
Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 14:37:34
Yes, I realise that the trade-off exists. Actually, for my previous
job, I'd walk every day 3 Km each way. I'm not afraid of walking :)
Gianni, you'll be more afraid of walking when you figure out that
On 24 Nov 2009, at 15:09, Mark Keating wrote:
Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside
of London.
Nope that's just because you came from Yorkshire which is the third
world.
I see the War of the Roses is still going strong :)
As it so
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Luis Motta Campos
luismottacam...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com
Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 12:17:27
Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport
as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli
dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
Original poster here :)
Yes, I realise that the trade-off exists. Actually, for my previous
job, I'd walk every day 3 Km each way. I'm not afraid of walking :)
my (san francisco) commute is walking 1.75 miles
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote:
All we have is a 2 deck gun in the yard of a hire shop.
On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural
salvage place with a Bloodhound missile.
--
Rabid Gravy:http://rabidgravy.com/
On Soundcloud:
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote:
All we have is a 2 deck gun in the yard of a hire shop.
On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural
salvage place with a Bloodhound missile.
Years ago there used to be a company called
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Yeah, I'm not dinging TfL, and yes, they do provide a reasonable means
of getting around London with the caveat that you check for line
closures on every journey (something that I don't recall methodically
doing 10 years ago).
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Yeah, I'm not dinging TfL, and yes, they do provide a reasonable means
of getting around London with the caveat that you check for line
closures on
Abigail wrote:
I opened a bank account at Barclay's in 1996 when I spend a few months
in London. No problems at all. They didn't ask for a rental agreement
(I wasn't paying rent) or a mortgage statement (didn't own property).
Neither did I pay for utilities.
Be careful if you go the barclays
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Mike Woods m...@geofront.co.uk wrote:
Be careful if you go the barclays route, there have been a few horror
stories in recent years about employee's tacking on premium services to new
accounts without your prior consent.
By no means unique to Barclays. I've
On 20 Nov 2009, at 13:50, James Laver wrote:
[...]
By no means unique to Barclays. I've got much worse horror stories
about Natwest. Including the time I tried to close my account (oh,
they *really* don't want to let you go).
I don't recall NatWest being particularly hard to leave. Abbey's
2009/11/20 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com
FWIW, I'm finding Lloyds to provide an acceptable level of service for
After my personal experience with Lloyds, I rank them as the worst bank ever
conceived. I simply cannot put into enough terrible words how awful their
service is. I struggle to
James Laver wrote:
By no means unique to Barclays. I've got much worse horror stories
about Natwest. Including the time I tried to close my account (oh,
they *really* don't want to let you go).
It's interesting to see how this little thread of conversation has shown
how a lot of these
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:38:34PM +, Tom Barrett wrote:
2009/11/20 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com
FWIW, I'm finding Lloyds to provide an acceptable level of service for
After my personal experience with Lloyds, I rank them as the worst bank ever
conceived.
So, to sum up this thread -
Hi all!
I'll be starting a job (permanent position) in London at the beginning
of January. I have until then to:
- find an apartment (renting, I think)
- open a bank account
- set up all utilities, and an ADSL
- move some of my stuff from Pisa
Now, since I know very little about how these
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net:
Hi all!
Some questions I have:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
On this point all I would say is avoid Foxtons.
This site has lots of private property rental so there's no agency fees
Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
I've had trouble with Black Katz in the past, and have heard similarly
bad stories from others.
Though, that said, estate agents are almost by definition
Gianni Ceccarelli writes:
- is there a no-interest, no-fees, everything-on-the-web bank that can
be trusted (at least a bit :) ) with my money?
Most 'normal' UK current accounts are without ongoing monthly charges
for merely having the account. There are some 'premium' accounts which
charge
2009/11/19 Avi Greenbury avismailinglistacco...@googlemail.com:
Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
Er, south? That's nice and
Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m?)
apartment for under ?800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
This
Dermot writes:
This site has lots of private property rental so there's no agency
fees http://www.gumtree.com/london/2548_1.html
When I moved to London I found Gumtree very frustrating: lots of ads
still up even after the room has been taken, or people who weren't in
when they said; lots of
2009/11/19 Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net:
At the moment, I'm in a cheap, nice 2 1/2 bed terrace in West London -
price is £975/month
I've just realised I neglected to mention that this location is *very*
West London. Almost Berkshire. Door to door (Soho) commute is ~90
minutes.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44:44AM +, Dermot wrote:
On this point all I would say is avoid Foxtons.
Why?
(I would too, but I'm not coy about my reasons - going through agencies
is an expensive pain in the arse, I prefer to deal directly with the
landlord)
This site has lots of private
On 19/11/09 11:20, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
Where will you be working ?
This can have a great bearing on the commute. Some places that
2009/11/19 Dermot paik...@googlemail.com:
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net:
Hi all!
Some questions I have:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
This site has lots of private property rental so there's no agency fees
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk is your friend for figuring out journey times.
On 19/11/2009 11:20, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
Some questions I have:
- can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for
the apartment?
Try nestoria.co.uk?
http://www.nestoria.co.uk/w2/property/rent/maxprice-250/sortby-price_highlow
Note prices are per week, I assume
Ok, based on feedback from the list and IRC, I'll add some more
information.
Job is (going to be in a few months' time, but let's simplify) in W12,
Westfield IIRC. That would suggest looking westward.
Also, my 30 minutes commute seems a bit optimistic: I'll probably
have to raise my expected
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net:
Ok, based on feedback from the list and IRC, I'll add some more
information.
Job is (going to be in a few months' time, but let's simplify) in W12,
Westfield IIRC. That would suggest looking westward.
All places within 30 minutes commute
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:37 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the
On 19 Nov 2009, at 12:32, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44:44AM +, Dermot wrote:
On this point all I would say is avoid Foxtons.
Why?
They are very slimy.
I had a bit of time on my hands, so thought I'd give them a spin,
partly because I was actually looking for
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Gianni Ceccarelli
dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
Ok, based on feedback from the list and IRC, I'll add some more
information.
Job is (going to be in a few months' time, but let's simplify) in W12,
Westfield IIRC. That would suggest looking westward.
Also, my
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:37 +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
On 2009-11-19 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
I used to live in W12 and you can probably pick up a nice flat for a
little over a grand a month. If you want cheaper but a short commute,
try heading west on the central line. Nice and snappy and a regular
service without *too many*
2009/11/19 Denny 2...@denny.me:
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:37 +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- is there a no-interest, no-fees, everything-on-the-web bank that can
be trusted (at least a bit :) ) with my money?
You'll have to
2009/11/19 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44:44AM +, Dermot wrote:
On this point all I would say is avoid Foxtons.
Why?
There was an article in one of the papers - possibly a London paper -
that detailed several cases of Foxtons charging excessively for
On 19/11/2009 14:57, Dermot wrote:
2009/11/19 David Cantrellda...@cantrell.org.uk:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44:44AM +, Dermot wrote:
On this point all I would say is avoid Foxtons.
Why?
There was an article in one of the papers - possibly a London paper -
that detailed several
From: Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote:
Also, my 30 minutes commute seems a bit optimistic: I'll probably
have to raise my expected commute time?
When you're doing your maths on all this: remember to factor in the price of
the train fare (plus how much you value your time/mind
Quoting Philip Potter (philip.g.pot...@gmail.com):
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net:
Ok, based on feedback from the list and IRC, I'll add some more
information.
Job is (going to be in a few months' time, but let's simplify) in W12,
Westfield IIRC. That would suggest
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pgp/w127sl.jpg
I would suggest picking a few places in that area and having a mooch around.
I quite like Acton which is not too overpriced. I suggest using a site like
primelocation for price guide and then use Loot paper (although at the
moment agencies are a bit
Quoting Gianni Ceccarelli (dak...@thenautilus.net):
Hi all!
I'll be starting a job (permanent position) in London at the beginning
of January. I have until then to:
I moved from a european country to London in 2000, so I have some stale
info to offer.
- find an apartment (renting, I
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:00:27PM +0100, Merijn Broeren wrote:
- open a bank account
This is the one that prompted me to respond. I had lots of trouble with
opening a bank account. One thing that is strange for a foreigner like
me and most likely to a .it citizen is that there is no
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