Sue

But you say in a previous post that you weren't very interested in this house in the first place, and yet you have got to this point despite knowing there had been subsidence, and then having discovered several issues which the present owners hadn't disclosed? I'm wondering at what point it would feel so insufficiently right that you walked away? I completely understand your exhaustion, but won't you be even more exhausted if you go ahead with this purchase? As regards drainage issues, I can tell you from my own experience that Thames Water will argue that it is your responsibility to deal with a drain even if from their own website content it is clearly theirs. And you might find someone in an obscure TW department who tells you off the record that you are right, but that his department is not the department which deals with repairs, and he has no contact with that department, and he asks you not to quote him or mention his name, or he will get into trouble 🙄

I agree he was an excellent councillor, but voting him back will depend on whether he stands!

Eh?!

Just pull out, if you can If the owners haven't been upfront with you about these things, what else might they not have told you? Better to lose some money now than buy it and regret it. Plus as you say, what would happen if you wanted to sell the house in the future? Also, an insurer who will insure you now may not necessarily continue to do so. I have had subsidence, my then insurer withdrew my insurance as a result of the claim, and I had to go through a specialist broker to get insured. I would say it's just not worth the risk and the hassle, irrespective of the structural stability report (which presumably isn't a guarantee?) And don't be embarrassed! None of this is your fault!

That's the most off topic post ever 🤣 A lot better than I was, out of bed, still not great, thanks for asking! Back on topic, C123 if you can't find anything within your price range, you could always go out for a non Christmas lunch and take your own crackers (are they still a thing?), party hats (ditto) and a sprig of holly to put on top of your dessert. And a bottle of Baileys or advocaat.You might have to hide that.

Motorola used to have a thing where you just laid the new phone over the old one to move everything over. Not any more, sadly. I'm getting a Samsung next time I think. I'm disillusioned with Moto (for other reasons).

We will provide words for the carols!

Unfortunately I've had very bad experiences with John Lewis technical help department, who have more than once given me completely wrong information, and once had to pay me compensation as a result. In any case unless you bought the phone there I'm not sure they would help? A local phone shop might, though.

I am no expert, but are your photos not saved in Google or similar, as well as being on your physical phone? If so, you should just be able to access them on your new phone without actually having to move them over? Same with emails, normally, you just have to sign into your email account on your new phone to access them? Not sure re contacts, but I don't recall having any problems when getting a new phone. And apps you can just reinstall. Google or something like ChatGPT could probably "talk" you through sorting, deleting and editing photos and emails, if you can't find someone to help (sorry I can't, I'd be too worried about doing something wrong!) Good luck! Don't delete anything from your old phone until you are sure it's on your new phone!

Surely there should be people below David Lammy's level briefing him on stuff like this?

Is this a reply to my question to Vladi? Could you be more specific about your reasons for saying it's "stupid" and "backwards", instead of making vague generalisations?

Why do you think he is incompetent?

Great name for a choir!

That's good to hear!

But "expected to back down on plans to scrap most jury trials" https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other