I was on my way to my next ‘assignment’ to day, walking through ‘new’ Broadmead, to the Quaker’s Friars development when I was hit on the head by a sea gull that collided with me. No real damage and I live to tell the tale, but I wonder whether or not had I been wearing my ‘High- Viz’ jacket and hard hat that I had to don when I arrived on site he would have seen me! It was back to good old ‘Health and Safety’. No, I could not go up a ladder, because it did not belong to the developer. Anyway, I did not have harness, and oh, ‘”We don’t own the roof, so we’ll need 48 hours to get a pass”. Pass on…   more »

I have been to see a pleasant one bedroomed flat in St Andrew’s today. The house had been divided into two units and my Client was purchasing the lower flat. The property as a whole was in reasonable condition as was the flat in particular, though the garden is shared, which I think is a bit of a disappointment, as was part of the under croft, but I thought that this was less of an intrusion. Never mind, so long as my Client is happy, then so am I…   more »