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@blinky465  Elkie Brooks!  That’s a blast from the past.  Top quality.  Perfect Midlantic singing accent too, not bad for a girl from Salford.  For those of a non-British persuasion her accent would have been this:

As to making big purchases I have one of my own coming up soon (hopefully) as I’m selling up and moving back to London so will be buying a property for the first time in nearly 30 years.  Needless to say they are a bit more expensive than when I left 😀  As to my approach I’m a horrid bore and work through as many possibilities as I can.  After all, you can think about spending money an infinite number of times but you only get to actually spend it once.  I’m gradually working my way round bits of London that fit my criteria and deciding on general areas I want to look.  I walk the streets and then make mental notes of the bits I liked.  When my place sells I’ll have an idea of my budget and can then start to focus on looking at properties in the areas I’ve picked out.  I’ll view ones I like more than once and take a friend along as a second pair of eyes is very sensible.  Despite all of this I know that I’ll end up buying one that just has the right feel.  So I try to get a balance of head and heart.

For me, answering spur of the moment whims is what my hobby is for.  I love a bit of shiny syndrome.  While you are at it chuck in a big dollop of magical thinking, as I genuinely believe I’ll get to the bottom of the pile of potential one day 😀