I was asked to look at and 'approve' a retirement flat to-day in Fishponds. It was built on the site of a large house that was demolished for the purpose. The original owner, so rumour has it, wqas a keen and sucessful mortor car racing driver (but no one knows his name!), who kept monkeys and peacocks in the grounds. The monkeys left, but a couple of peacocks kept coming back to the site, if you can believe that! The flat was well built, but, and here's the BUT, but it was priced astonishingly high, and I had to tell my Client so...   more »