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Whoah! That's lovely. Comes with it's own former bread oven too!

Dayum, Troops! That's nice!

Cheers all, i'm sure we could accommodate a few people if you wanted to come visit, or crash over after the BeexBQ etc... It's not quite stumbling distance to Grim... acres, but I can't imagine a taxi would cost a fortune.

A few interesting things with the house. The bread oven is completely sealed up, I assume there are dead bodies inside or something. Opening it up would be an option to make the kitchen bigger, but we certainly won't have the cash for that to start with!
There is also a safe that comes with the house that is too heavy to move and the current vendors have never opened it as they don't have a key, it was in the house when they bought it 15 years ago. I expect there are gold bars inside, for sure.

We are going to be living like savages though for a while. It doesn't have a dishwasher.

It is a wonderful space, Trooper, and one which I hope with all my hopes that you and Mrs T will spend many happy years in. You are so lovely that you will both bring warmth and live to that space. It sounds like there are many things to discover in that house. I wonder if you'll ever find out what is in the safe? Do you remember someone posting here about a locked safe once, and someone had the same model and managed to find the set spring code for it to get it open? Those gold bars could pay for the kitchen remodelling

Wasn't there a load of people on Reddit finding locked safes in houses they'd bought and people helping them get into them? It's possible this only happened once and my memory is making it more of a thing than it ever was.

Ah, no, it seems there's a whole sub-reddit for it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing

I'll give you one of the gold bars when you and the mister come to stay one weekend.

That could come in useful, cheers

No problem. I'm very jealous of both your lovely new house and the mystery safe it contains.

It's not ours yet, there's a lot of steps to get through until that happens, but fingers crossed

Can I suggest calling the thread in the upcoming Reddit "Dread Oven"?

Yes.

That's a big old place, Troops. It's going to take ages to add network cables.

Are you going to drive to Bedford station?

I'm hoping that 500mbit ethernet over electric will work, but we shall see!

Drive to Flitwick and get on there, much easier than coming into bedford.

That looks awesome Troops!

It was Joans; no gold bars though.

Hmm, if it has two ring mains you're going to have trouble.

Should be OK, i'd expect there to be separate rings for the bakery and the house, but the bakery only has the kitchen and main bedroom, which can both make do with WiFi (might need a booster though), the rest of the house should hopefully be on the same ring.

The bread oven could make a very nice office if you can get into it. I'd be tempted to get an endoscope camera once you are in, and drill a couple of holes for a nose.

The main issue is going to be restricted head height. The part of the rear hall that runs alongside the oven is 5'10" to the ceiling. I'm 5'11"...
Opening up the oven wouldn't be too tricky, but I expect i'd need to excavate down about a foot to make it a workable space, which wouldn't be cheap.

I've got an endoscope camera with a light. And some drills!

What time should I get there?

Probably best to wait till he actually owns it.

Where's the fun in that?

My dining table at the moment.



Yes, those furniture cutouts are to scale.
Yes, I am a total nerd.

If we lose this house for some reason, i'm going to be moderately annoyed...

I've done the scale model furniture cutout thing. But even worse, when I moved to this flat, I did a 3d render of the living room with furniture in various places.

Thought that was 'Kill Doctor Lucky' for a moment.

How the fuck is it 4-15 on a Sunday already? Weekends get very depressing.

Cook and Becker are a company that do prints of a load of officially licensed artwork from various game companies (as well as independent artists doing their own stuff) and there's some really pretty stuff in their selection. From a quick browse through I see:

• Dragon Age Inquisition
• Jak and Daxter
• Street Fighter
• Mass Effect
• Uncharted
• The Last of Us
• Okami
• Battlefield 4
• Bioshock Infinite
• Journey
• Mirror's Edge
• Killzone

I'm genuinely considering some of the Journey stuff to fill my currently fairly empty living room walls.

Ooo, some of the pieces are lovely.

Had there been a Shadow of the Collosus artwork or two I'd have had to take out a second mortgage, as it stands, it's very pretty but I sharn't be dropping no dollar on it. Er, yo.

Me, too.

Does anyone know how to set up MS Outlook 2010 to forward only emails from an external source to another email address?

Do it the other way round? Setup a rule to forward all email, except when it contains your internal domain?

Live action game, anyone?

there isn't any logic function, so you can't say, 'not'. However, I solved it, you say, if it contains '@' in the sender's address.

Err.

How about this?

Or even this?

They're quite nice. I like the first but it doesn't capture the atmosphere of the setting.

The second is really nice but it doesn't have cricket bat guy in it. That fight (with the cricket bat guy) epitomises the game in my mind: the setting on the tilted structure that looked like a Colosseum sinking into the lake, a huge behemoth sleeping on a massive roof; the lonely cricket bat guy, with a cricket bat, smashing your fucking face in.

These ones were quite nice too though...

http://society6.com/product/shadow-xoj_print#1=45

http://society6.com/product/barba-the-c ... print#1=45 (Cricket Bat guy. Not on a roof. Not smashing your fucking face in.)

I've done what I always do when looking at possible art for my flat: find a few nice looking example and get very excited, then dig a bit further and suddenly find myself drowning in possibilities and unable to decide what to do so getting bored looking and give up.

I got a couple of nice pieces of Portal artwork for Christmas. One was a handmade Mimi original, the other was a commissioned original!

I'll need something to go on the wall of my dedicated gaming room, apart from the projector screen, of course

Because of you, the "let's move to a cottage in Haworth" train has spluttered back into life. You dick.

You're welcome

Mortgage application has been put in this afternoon. That's the major possible blocker, so hopefully all will be well!

Here you go
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 26661.html

I've even saved you the effort of finding a place.

I like that. MrsA likes this:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/40575019

Or

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/48218624

My preference is the second one of those. However, gardens and parking are a problem.

Both very nice, I think I prefer the first one.

The bed in that 2nd one.... Wow. Much cushions. So luxury.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/47888258 or this for some balcony fun!

Is it wrong that when I look at photos of the interior of houses the main question in my head is "Will I be able to fit a table big enough to play Arkham Horror on?"