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Can't your daughter speak directly with the landlord and try to resolve the issue? From my daughter's experience with rented accommodations most of the letting agents are useless and ignorant.

Yes! I haven't been to so many places as you but my impression is the same. Remember walking behind a small group of teenage girls, going home after school. No joke, from every 4 words they were pronouncing, one started with F. Several times in a sentence, if you can imagine. Everything is...

hi1 - as fas as I know, he wasn't desperate to find a job here, it was offered to him, so he decided to stay for some time. I suppose eventually he would go back. Syria is not an oil country, the average monthly wages there are equal to about £200-300, and the prices for food and other everyday...

Fellow forum members, most of you have your ideas about immigration from the media. Don't forget that for the media in 99% of the cases only the bad news is news. And after reading an article in a newspaper about a business project I worked for, I take everything with a pinch of salt - the...

garden hose???

YES!!! :lol:

Unfortunately there are not many islands left but I would like the LA to have their own properties in a desolate area and to accommodate the troublemakers there. The 2 families I described get on very well with each other and don't communicate with the rest of the neighbourhood. Why not provide...

My house is an ex-council property, as all the houses on the street. The area is what they call up-and-coming, many people have refurbished or are refurbishing their houses. There are 3 properties though rented to people on benefits, all of them British. One is rented to an old lady. It is...

I had the same problem with a plasterer skimming one of the bedrooms. He has his own business, a one-man-company, so I assumed he should be good to be able to stay in the business. Wrong!!! I couldn't take a day off when he did the job and have no idea how many times he went over with the trowel...

No idea about the figures but thinking of it - all the people on benefits I personally know (long time benefits, not just between jobs) are 1) home born British, and 2) do NOT want to work. Reason being they can quite comfortably exist on benefits. At the same time I know some Bulgarians...

And you did a good job by the way. Before your explanation what is what, I wondered why you want to get rid of the plants on pictures 3 and 4 :lol:

I think the bbc site has a virtual garden thing. For getting rid of the old staff, try first freecycle. I have seen posts there when somebody offers for free the materials from an old decking, sheds, or patio slabs, or hardcore, or even soil. People who want them go and...

Forgot to say, I am a female too, not retirement age yet but in my 40s. I did some hard-landscaping - a patio, 2 deckings, and a driveway but not on my own - some with my ex, some with my partner. I could do it myself but it wouldn't be a proper thing to do if there is a man in the house :)...

Are you planning to pay someone to do the job? I personally do such things myself, and if you are fit and have enough time (retirement age) perhaps you can do it too if you want. Several years ago I had no knowledge about gardening and started with buying garden design books (look at the...

RedHerring2, thanks for the article. Can sign under every word of you last post.

IMHO - there is nothing bad to keep your ethnic culture alive, to follow the cultural traditions, etc. as far as they don't clash with anything else, like work responsibilities, dress code, or the traditional culture of the country where you live. In my previous place of work, some colleagues...