TwinkleToes

Thanks to those of you who gave helpful unbiased advice, and for the PMs - it's appreciated. Also fair enough to the people who have enough time to trawl the forum and express their opinions on 'buy to lets' but it might help if you knew our full story and intentions before expostulating! Best wishes, Mrs P Rachman

Does anyone have any experience of trying to get a 'buy to let' mortgage? We're interested in the idea of getting somewhere to develop or do up and then let as a source of income. Probably not in London due to the initial costs.... We'd be really interested to hear anyone's experience both pre- and post-covid.

I know the main idea of wearing masks is to stop passing germs on to others and most people wear the most basic ones but which are the best ones for protecting ourselves against getting Covid which are available to the general public?

thanks for the replies so far - interesting. It would be great to see photos of the art that some of you have described. Do any of you visit the Art markets atno 57 Northcross road? There are a few coming up on Saturdays - - fine art on Nov 30th then a mix of art and design on Dec 7th and Dec 14th.

I hadn't realised some people in East Dulwich were so hilariously witty, or had so much time to waste, Capt Marvel and Artful Dodger. It will be helpful for my next survey to find the average IQ of the population of East Dulwich. On the other hand, thanks for the helpful feedback, KidKruger + sweetgirl. I'm trying to help local artists and designers get a better understanding of the local demographic and look forward to more helpful comments such as yours, ideally with photos of any original art that people have on their walls.

If it's mainly family and friends, would you ever consider buying original art or prints from local artists or online? Or if you were able to choose an artwork for free, would it be a painting/original print/ photo? Would the subject be landscape, abstract, portrait, cityscape, or something else? All replies are really helpful for our survey, thanks for replies.

I'm trying to find out what East Dulwichites put on their walls to help our large artistic community and also out of general interest. Do you collect original art, or do you prefer prints or photos? Landscapes? Cityscapes? Portraits? Family photos? Minimalistic plain walls? If you'd like to send a description or better still, post an image of anything you have on your wall, I'll make an East Dulwich 'gallery' once we have enough. Personally, I have a mix of photos of family and friends, past and present and paintings by my Dad, partner, son and friends, so I'm starting it off with attaching a couple of photos of my walls. Looking forward to seeing everyone else's, in particular original art rather than family photos.

I've always found Epson the best for artwork and the inks are not as expensive for newer models, especially if you can buy the economy size individual ones. I'll check the model no I currently have and send you a PM later.