CLOSED -Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

[Handyman]

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Coffee Break and a fag, just a little break from clearing a bank of dangerously overhanging branches and brambles.

Hi all, If and Loo thanks for your kind words. I'm OK now and trying to get back to normal. OH isn't too good at the moment, some kind of Virus so her temper is worse than normal. Good job I have skin that's thorn proof (helps with the Brambles as well .

Right that's it for now back to the job in hand. 5 minutes of cutting branches means 30 minutes of dragging them out into the trailer to take to the bonfire.

Regards all, Handy

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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I haven't even had a rollicking from her Ladyship since before Christmas, I must really be doing something wrong

She's probably ill.

Is her nose wet?

[Handyman]

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She's probably ill.

Is her nose wet?

Nose is Dry and still the mood remains good especially as her financial advisor sold all her Tatco shares last week. Some folks have all the luck or insider information.

Mind you it's not surprising if I could tell you what business his Lordship was involved in

CC did you get my pm about the wood?

Regards, Handy

[Numpty Monkey]

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I often wonder what he would think of the things I have done and the places I have been in the last 20 years.

Proud I'd say mate

It's easy as you get older to drown in nostalgia.

Yes

Life for Handy is quite normal at the moment even by my standards.

what's normal

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Nose is Dry and still the mood remains good especially as her financial advisor sold all her Tatco shares last week. Some folks have all the luck or insider information.

Mind you it's not surprising if I could tell you what business his Lordship was involved in

Did he run a chain of knocking shops?

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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At least here I'm safe from the Jehovah's witnesses knocking on the door every 5 minutes.

Wouldn't you prefer to save their souls by converting them to Common Sense - or, at least, to have some fun getting them to contradict themselves?

I like to ask the Jehovah's Witlesses (NAT) how many times they have predicted The End Of The World, how many of those predictions has come true and why, with that history of dismal failure, one should believe anything they might now claim?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah...ed_predictions

History of Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

vere, capita eorum in asinorum sunt

[Johanino]

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Okay so how did I manage to burn my hand on the rice cooker last night (veggies weren't even half cooked )

And why is everyone plotting against me Handy? Never mind Knocking shops (this soundeth interesting....a shop for knocks. Never seen one . Someone enlighten me. Do they sell removal door knobs? Are they attached with ultra strong velcro?)....Lady is plotting against me.

Lady has bugged the walls again. Am sure of it (or else Dr.P or Dr. C)...

All the ward say is meds. I DON'T NEED THE MEDS

SC

[Johanino]

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I have warned half the planet that Dr. P is part of the conspiracy :

He says he's not...am sure he's an FM min....

To that mind he's part of the conspiracy....

SC

[Handyman]

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Good Morning All. Cor look at the dust in here I take a couple of weeks off and look at the cob-webs.

No Handy must do his best to get back to writing up his memoires

Not much to report over the last couple of weeks, it's all been pretty mundane. I am stuck out in the woods cutting the long hedge by hand. (some may say that's the best place for me )

So for now it's a fast gargle of my coffee and back to work.

[IF]

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Good Handy we have missed your posts here

[Handyman]

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Buy my Debt, Vindication of Sorts.

Good evening all, I was going to do another story about Handy’s exploits this evening and then on FB I saw one of Scorpio’s news updates. While I was looking at it I noticed another link to Buy my Debt and how it had now been shut down by the High Court Insolvency Service, leaving it’s clients some £75,000 out of pocket and most instances in a bigger mess than they were before.

LINK "Debt purchase" firm shut down by High Court

I first became aware of this company in July 2010 when a newbie posted on MSE asking if anyone had heard of them and if it was a good idea. They promised to take over your debts using a secret piece of Government legislation. (So Secret not even the Government knew about it). It would cost you 10% of the outstanding balance up front and if they couldn’t get you debt free in 6 weeks they promised to refund your outlay in full.

The poster who started the thread got jumped on by a few of the older hands, as a relative newbie myself I stuck in my two penny’s worth with my don’t shoot first policy. Thanks Numpty for sticking up for me.

It didn’t take long even for me to work out we were being spammed, I did manage to track the OP down to an address in the West Midlands where he was not only an agent for this company but running a cheque cashing and payday loans company.

What really got my interest was the address of the firm, it was in an Industrial estate about 10 minutes walk from where my Mother lived and overlooked by my old School.

A little on line research into the company and I had a couple of names, a friend on MSE with access to better information than you could get from companies house filled in a lot of the gaps. A little more midnight oil and I had almost a full CV on the two main players.

While I was collecting this information and wading through shell company after shell company, Holding company after holding company, (30 in total registered to the same post code and that didn’t include the other 12 in Leeds),.

Meanwhile other things were emerging. There was a hint that if you couldn’t afford the 10% upfront fee, you would be approached by a lender that would provide a loan in order to you to proceed with the sale of your debt.

They were still advertising in the Red Top press for agents to recruit potential clients. When Ames gets back from her travels ask her about this because she offered to go for an interview with them. As I pointed out at the time, the thread was possibly being monitored and they would be expecting our own troll.

I then posted an abridged version of my findings. I was careful in what I said. How the main player had just sold his telecoms business for 17M. This Chap liked boating and on of his Crewmates was at the time Head of Special Projects for Amex. The other Director had was an ex copper with a security company and a conviction for corporate manslaughter.

I didn’t post much more information than this and low and behold the thread was deleted, vanished as though it never existed.

As usual I never got an explanation from the MSE site team, a mate who knew one of the Mods was told they were worried I was just on the side of legal, I should have used the word allegedly a little more often, even though it was a matter of public record regarding the information on the two main directors.

I though Mr Lewis was a Journalist? So a year and a half on and these people have been shut down, basically be being declared Insolvent. Your people shut down a discussion that could have closed these folk down before any real damage was done. So much for being the Peoples Champion.

Come on this was basically a con, at one time I thought they were trying to run a fee paying UE service or that as the MD gave his profession on Linkedin as Security, was it some sort of DCA trap. End of the day it was just a scam run by several already wealthy individuals.

So much as I feel very sorry for those taken in I feel vindicated that my research was correct. What I would like to see now are those who ran this company made to explain their actions. If I worked in Fraud I would be asking what action could be taken.

If any of the Mods would like to see my initial research please let me know how to get it to you.

Regards to all, Handy.

Oh BTW I sat outside their premises with a telephoto lens. Not much to report only that when I was eventually spotted photographing number plates (handy is getting sloppy in his old age) I had to make a hasty exit (several rather large men in dark glasses and bomber jackets).

[Handyman]

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No none of the above, Just a can of rather weak Lager tonight as I have a Hospital appointment in the Morning . I thought I was going to see a Doctor about my Prostrate, but I believe I have to see an Astronomer Well the letter from his Secretary said He wants to see you about your anus

Seriously it was just an issue that got me riled up at the time. I'm glad they have been closed down, would just be nice if they got more than a slap on the wrist. As everything was set up as Limited Companies, the Directors probably won't even get hit for Tax. Meanwhile an unknown number of people are in an even bigger mess than before.

But anyway my last word on the matter, probably best as every one knows Handy don't do serious.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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Well done on being a magnum pi though. That bit made me chuckle

[Johanino]

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I too have been mia (even from emailing you H) as didn't take my pills the other night :niddy.

So two days of paranoia :

And now recovering but feeling a tad hungover from taking my pills last night....

Anyhow handy I have a solution for your prostate.... Simple...two bricks off a hill

Or like a hair band superglued? till it drops off.....

Or just a knife

A+E will love thee

SC

[Handyman]

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Hey SC what have you got against my poor old prostrate .

Was it not bad enough that the consultant had 6 students waiting to examine me

He now wants to drill holes in it!

I would like to keep all me bits fully functioning a while longer.

I always used to laugh at mates that got pulled in at the Airport for a glove search, never again will I laugh.

My idea of being well lubricated is to drink 1/2 a bottle of Scotch

Anyway back to the plot of sorts, things are still going well at the Hall. I'm still cutting the long hedge and will be for at least another week and the squirrel who has taken residence in the Barn roof is refusing to be evicted. He must be deaf by now for I keep turning the burglar alarm on to wake him up. It's loud enough to rearrange your internal organs, but Mr Sqiggle sleeps right though all the racket.

Well that's Handy for now, it's been a long day so I'm off to sit in my rubber ring for a while.

Regards all