frag wrote:
> The Older Gentleman took a blunt brush and painted...
>> The lady who's selling us the land. Her house didn't survive.
>>
>> My mate Patricio (whose missus is going to build our gaff) says she's
>> living in the one room that stayed intact (old house, you see, not made
>> to modern standards). She's asking us if there's anything we can do to
>> help.
>>
>> Christ. Suggestions?
>
> Donate your plot of land to her so she can build a nice, new, earthquake
> proof house on to live in.
>
> The only humane, charitable thing to do.

TOG, if her current plot's better for your needs, you could offer to buy
that plot off her instead. That way she could build her new house sooner
without need for clearing etc.

--
Ian

In message <7Namn.279984$(E-Mail Removed)2>, Ian White
<newsgrops_REM@OVE_ianwhitephoto.co.uk> writes
>frag wrote:
>> The Older Gentleman took a blunt brush and painted...
>>> The lady who's selling us the land. Her house didn't survive.
>>> My mate Patricio (whose missus is going to build our gaff) says she's
>>> living in the one room that stayed intact (old house, you see, not made
>>> to modern standards). She's asking us if there's anything we can do to
>>> help.
>>>
>>> Christ. Suggestions?
>> Donate your plot of land to her so she can build a nice, new,
>>earthquake proof house on to live in.
>> The only humane, charitable thing to do.
>
>TOG, if her current plot's better for your needs, you could offer to
>buy that plot off her instead. That way she could build her new house
>sooner without need for clearing etc.
>
There was a R7.2 aftershock today. TOG had better delay leaving the UK
yet.
--
Tim

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian White
<newsgrops_REM@OVE_ianwhitephoto.co.uk> saying something like:

>TOG, if her current plot's better for your needs, you could offer to buy
>that plot off her instead. That way she could build her new house sooner
>without need for clearing etc.

All he has to do is wait and he'll have two plots for the price of one.