On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:47:36 +0100, Richard Faulkner
wrote:

In message , Capitol
writes
We are coming up to the "dead" period of the year, when buyers start
thinking about Xmas and not moving house,

I always tended to find that people making offers at this time of year
tended to want to be in for Xmas. It wasnt until mid Novembers' offers
that most realised that this was unrealistic, although some would still
have a go.

Can't understand this urge to be 'in by Christmas' myself. It would be
a lot more fun for a lot of people to do ANYthing to avoid Christmas
if at all possible. If you offered £5,000 to most people if they just
carried on as normal, most would take the money. All Christmas has
become is a cynical, profit-making season of good will - towards the
big corporate coffers. They bombard us with advertising and glossy
gift catalogues, nicely printed in the Far East back in the spring. We
buy piles of utter rubbish at inflated prices, most of which ends up
in landfill by January. Families often fall out, divorce proceedings
are started, kids leave home, the dog eats the turkey, then sicks it
up under the bed.

Christmas? Pah!

MM