Heh.

Heh

Sailo can give you the skinny on looking after aged p’s…

At least they’re not moving in with you.

At least you’ll be around to be able to point out when it is time for your dad to put his trousers in the wash (Sailo-style). 

Umm, this feels like house swap is the better option?!

Do you have siblings you get on with? 
 

Either way you are gonna be lumbered…big time

My mum moved to a house just down the road from us a couple of years ago. We lasted 6 months before moving to the next village over. 

Not sure how old Shooty is, but if one our our younger brethren, it's an superb  babysitting service on tap.

I guess it all depends on how well you get on - my folks live about 8 miles away, and even though I go round and see them for visits 2x a week, I would have loved to be closer to them and have more of a 'pop-in' type of relationship.

Our kids are under firm instructions to settle down very close to home.

This is true, Sails.

JM: I would, but I couldn't afford it. It's a lovely "family" home. But the gas and leccy is £1300 a month at the moment, I wouldn't be able to stay on top of the garden, which is huge. It all needs bringing up to date. the kitchen is very dated. There are two boilers (three including the pool), the wiring is so old, with so many patch jobs that, just out of interest, if you try and use an "internet over power lines" extension thing, it's only 50/50 whether each end will be able to talk to the other. What else? Pretty sure there's asbestos lagging in the attic. The internet speed is appalling. 

I did kind of grow up thinking that one day I'd like to own it, but I don't have that quite so much now. My own house is considerably smaller, but we're happy here. There's a whole sub topic here about ambition and the children of moderately wealthy people. My dad's twin, who is sadly dead now, was fond of saying that he and my dad "made it" as they were born "at the bottom of the tree", and fought to climb it, whereas my brothers and I (he didn't have kids himself) were born in the middle of the tree and would probably stay there.

Add to that that, as a litigator, I hate conflict. Perfectly happy to do it professionally, but don't like it in my personal life, so I don't fight for things, generally. 

Apologies: I'm feeling maudling and I'm rambling. As with some other roffers, it's only in the last 12 months that my parent's age and my dad's memory problems have really hit me. So...

But I love the house. I grew up there. And I'm pretty sure that SOMEWHERE in that f**king house are some Eldar Harlequin and Genestealer Hybrid warhammer figs, if I can just remember where.

Minkie: two younger brothers. Get on well. One is a bit further away. the other is pretty local and has taken on the family business from my dad. So, there won't be any lumbering for a while. Physically, M&D are both still very able.

 Marshall: My kids are 17 and 14. I think that up until the period where they were old enough to look after themselves, we used a babysitter like 5 times? Similarly, happy to report that get on with M&D very well and my kids love them, so that's all good. 

Wonder if I can convince my mum to start doing our ironing...  ;)

I should add that their current house is only a 15 minute walk from us. 

Is there a way you could make it unsellable so they have to stay? 

Shoot you that sounds a lot like my parents suggesting I might take their place over.  I’m quite happy instead to watch my neighbour dealing with updating it all from the late 70’s and slowly realising that there are some things you can’t do without almost rebuilding the place.  The garden is also looking a bit battered as he’s struggling to find gardeners.

Sounds like they need to pay you to take it off their hands. 

Nice humble brag at the house you grew up in being huge. 

As opposed to Davos’s braying-brags about his huge salary and many expensive foreign holidays.

On reflection,  Shooty is the winner.

"There's a whole sub topic here about ambition and the children of moderately wealthy people."

I hear you.

"Apologies: I'm feeling maudling and I'm rambling. As with some other roffers, it's only in the last 12 months that my parent's age and my dad's memory problems have really hit me."

Ramble away. This kind of honest reflective stuff is a pleasure to read.

Drawings m6.

Although pretty telling that red trousered Marshall prefers those who inherit money instead of those that work for it. 

Proper Tory.

Shooty clearly hasn’t inherited anything from his parents yet…

Davos didn't you tell us you've been arrested multiple times by police for "fighting".

Do you expect us to believe that you are in the practice with that kind of record?