Holiday/ short term letting would produce a nice income and keep you busy. And you can always sell at a later date that suits you. Either way it’s a very fortunate position to be in.
Somebody reminded me of that yesterday afternoon on the dog & bone You make your own luck in life but sometimes there's a helping hand to guide you
There’s method in that madness. Look at Exige (and Roberano with his Desmosedici), sound investments as they ain’t making anymore
Just changed the two spark plugs over on the Buell that's been sitting around for ages & it fired up for first time but doesn't idle at all.........carb clean
Heading off into Beds and Herts this afternoon delivering a birthday present to Mrs EPJ's godson. Long way there and back obvs. Any excuse......
Replaced the lower chain slider on the Multistrada this morning and ended up having to helicoil all 3 M5 threads in the swing arm. Took a good look at the chain whilst I was there as it’s 10,000 miles old and we will be doing at least another 5000 miles over the next 3 months. Decided on balance to change it as I have had a new spare in the cupboard for a while. Looked at the front sprocket as well and it’s definitely auditioning for a part in Peter Pan. Andy
We had to go back the half mile to the house to get the schnapps.. my mate let me drive the 3 tonne dumper ( not exige's girlfriend btw) back up the track.. I'm not allowed to drive it again... I didn't hit nothing but I was a bit errrr uncoordinated....
My lump sum and pension will be protected wisely. Although I can see me buying a bike when I retire as a present for 35 years at the coal face. not sure what as I have about 7 years left. The bikes can supplement my pension when I decide to sell them, but predominantly they were bought as bikes not investments. But I watched the marked carefully before buying stuff I liked and I should do OK. They are certainly better than my shares. These offer a good dividend return and tax break, but the value of the shares themselves is up and down like a hookers knickers.
The value of my pension pot (which is shares based) is the same. When the market drops the value of my pot drops by thousands, and very quickly. Yet when the market is bullish the pot rises in piddling amounts........HTF does that work??
I have a Final Pension Scheme, so guaranteed lump and pension linked to my salary and inflation once I retire. The shares are worth doing as you get 40% discount on the purchase price (tax) as it's a company SIP, but if it weren't for that, I'd have lost money in the last 2 years. They are still worth doing and I'm buying shares now at the lower value, so it's swings and roundabouts. You have to look at them as a long term thing.
I do look at them as a long term thing (though I look at how they are doing regularly) because if I didn't I'd shit myself every other day.
