Looking to move house? If you have won the Euromillions you might be able to afford London’s most expensive property currently on the market. The Glass Mansion in Mayfair is available to buy for £50 million. It can be purchased as two separate properties with each costing £25 million, quite affordable. What do you get for your money? Only four bedrooms in each I’m afraid but each has a gym, spa, garden as well as all the normal mod cons. There is a swimming pool, parking, cinema but I don’t know if you can enjoy a drive-in movie. Would make a great Airbnb destination.
Not so easy to sell even though it has a smallish price tag is a property in Malton, North Yorkshire. The reason the estate agents are having a struggle to sell is because it’s next to a graveyard. It looks good to me, a pretty house with three bedrooms and a decent sized garden on the market for £250,000. I personally don’t see what the problem is, nice quiet location. In fact I live only a few yards from our local graveyard where the author Mary Shelley resides and she wrote Frankenstein. Should I be scared?
Next week the state pension age is set to rise again. Anyone born after 5th October 1954 will have to wait until they are 66 to claim their pension. I wonder how old all those MPs have to be. I remember that people were often cross that they had to retire at a certain age and felt that they had ‘a few more years of work left in them’. I guess with people living longer it’s understandable they will have to work longer. Anyway they’re going to need a few years to pay off their student loans.
You might have noticed that supermarkets around the UK are already selling all sorts of goodies for your Christmas festivities. M&S have a Snow Storm in a bottle gin in two different flavours, Aldi have giant Ferrero Rocher and Sainsbury are offering a sausage dog yule log. Something for all tastes and plenty of time for hoarding if that’s what you are up to. I’d better think about making some mince pies or at least the mince meat.
Much has been made of David Attenborough visiting the Windsor’s and meeting their children. He was there for a private showing of his environmental documentary A Life on Our Planet – not to be confused with A Life on Mars. Anyway like many visitors before him he went bearing gifts with a special one for the future king Prince George. The young man was very excited to receive a prehistoric shark tooth that the tv personality had found while on holiday in Malta over fifty years ago. The Maltese Culture Minister has suggested that it should be returned to Malta as it forms part of their heritage. Others say that the tooth is not at all rare as sharks shed teeth throughout their lives and there are thousands of them to be found and are quite common. Not quite fit for a king then? Good night everyone. 😴💤😴