Moving part two.. and machine situation

[spooky]

My move is making me temporarily, I hope, reorganise my bikes. The RE Classic will stay, the Terrot will stay. If I get the little vespa that will be occasional use in bonny scotland, for tiddler runs,. My 350 Honda is advertised and i would lik it to be gone before i move, but if it doesnt it will stay in Durham for use when I visit daughter/brother/in laws and be used as planned for sprints.  The Gilera with a bit of luck will go today and the c90 will be either part exed for the Vespa or sold.  then....when I am established a cd200 or a gn250 will become the daily hack.  how does that sound ?

[iansoady]

Delightful.

We (well, I) were very lucky with our move as not only do I have a double garage which is now fitted out as a workshop, but a further workshop running down the side of it which I have donated to my wife as a potting shed, plus a further wooden garage some 20' x 10' in which the previous occupant kept his vintage Rolls Royce.

The latter still has loads of stuff from our move but as we'd lived in our previous house for 35 years we have tons of stuff.....

[spooky]

We are hoping to get somewhere that has a big garden , at least third of an acre, big garage and workshop, space for more gardening  sheds, stream and woodland would be nice. There are loads available within our price range at present. Hopefully some of them will still be on the market in October. We are looking from west of Lockerbie to Castle Douglas and up to Sanquhar and down to the coast.  Quite a big search area.

[mthee]

Sounds like the good times are rolling for both of you - big congratulations! Biking first, acreage and grass cutting, weeding, second, gentlemen, please! Nothing worse than being behind a mower, listening to bikes howling up and down...

[themoudie]

Aye Rufus, beware the garden size, it all sounds very nice but the 40 plus inches of rain per annum and the Silurian lithology (soil parent material) mean that the soils are heavy/clayey, yet fertile. Hence the lack of tillage and the predominance of dairying and grazing enterprises in the area and forestry. The soils are fertile but wet! Grass, raised beds and maybe a polytunnel for veg., rather than lots of borders etc. If you go further west of Castle Douglas or up as far as Moffat the climate definitely has more rainfall.

As for the "bikes howling up and down"! Where I bide, we have that all the time, along with the lemming mentality of overtaking at warp factor when you can't see further than the end of the vehicle in front!    I'd rather be mowing my grass and waiting until the back of tea time when the 'Green Wellie' brigade of gone home and then going for a 100 mile canter along deserted biways that few other motorcyclists frequent.    Last night in the gloaming, I watched an otter fishing in the Tay, whilst others whizzed over the bridge behind me. Biding up here has its compensations. Just dinnae shout to loud about it 'darn sarf'!

Good health, Bill

[spooky]

Thanks Bill, some good info. I have/do spend a fair bit of time further up around Stirling and Fife where my brother lived and where my hooligan nephew is. Also my daughter has been staying in Dumfries for last 4 years, hence one of the reasons to go there. I will just make sure we are on a hill  not beside the Annan ! My wife is chief gardener so I will make sure she starts collecting raised bed wood !  and maybe get her a polytunnel. I still have my ride on mower as we already have a lot of grass.  Any spare land will get trees  planted, always wanted a bigger Arboretum.  Which part are you in ?

[themoudie]

Aye Rufus,

Perthshire. We go traipsing around Fife and Stirlingshire quite a bit. All part of a night times canter!  Stirlingshire Council aren't the best at road maintanence! 

All the best with the shufty and I hope that you find a place to your liking.

Good health, Bill

[spooky]

Update.... buyer pulled out, back to square one,  i must admit I wasn`t really hopeful that it would all be plain sailing , so it`s back on the market..

[themoudie]

Aye Rufus,

Naff English property market!    I don't intend to join the 'chains' or be beholden to 'estate agents' doing 'deals' with solicitors.   My experiences of ten years ago, when selling my parents house reinforced my jaundiced view of the whole pantomime.

The market up here is different, but also has its own scumbag scams and schmoozers.    But, at least your solicitor up here can do the whole job, just make sure they are not the other parties solicitor as well! 

Good health and good luck, Bill

[BrendanO]

Spooky, you're moving to a great part of the workd for thumping! I also have rels there (Castle Douglas and KKB). Loads of tiny tiny roads to get lost in, lovely coast, and that middle bit "not quite as wet" as the rest of D&G region, tho rainy compared to our lovely East coast.

2 Forest Roads (always funny taking folk along there (did that once with CX club!), Galloway hills, and an off-grid bike breaker/scrapyard near Ae village.

Obvs Dumfries is underwater half the time so font move there

[spooky]

London buyer back in the game !  fingers crossed . again.
Kippford/Rockcliffe, KKB and Castle Douglas all within my search area, also up near Auldgirth,  wait and see

[Ian]

Ahhh the joys of moving house 🙄

[spooky]

Ahhh the joys of moving house 🙄

all new to me !  first house I have ever sold...

[iansoady]

Good luck with the buyer. I must say buying & selling earlier this year was one of the most stressful things I can remember - and ours went very smoothly! The system (in England at least) seems devised to make it as nerve-shredding as possible as nothing is final till you actually have the keys in your hand and are walking through the front door.

[spooky]

Here's another thing I need advice about...when/if I finally sell my house, what do I do about the bike insurance until I have a new permanent place to keep them? They will be temporarily garaged in different places.. Anyone done this ?