Hi Scaatland!

So, after a lot of soul-searching, ancestry.com results, and a can of sugar free IRNBRU extra I decided to move to Scotland, from Scotland! I just can't take Starmer anymore. I didn't vote for him, and he's ruining Cumbernauld's reputation. Not everybody here is a gun loving bible bashing people hating miserable cunt. Some are only one or two of those things.

I'm considering moving into a croft on Saracen St where my clan ancestors lived, and reconnect with the tarmac.

Do you have some tips about how I can get a visa, adapt quickly, and keep wild haggises away since I'm terrified of animals?

A lot of these posts are main character syndrome.

Basically anyone who’s perhaps famous in their field but not everyone would have heard of them. I’m into history and ww2 aircraft so for me it’s Eric “Winkle” Brown, I was talking to my colleagues today and was surprised none of them except for one have heard the name before; which is surprising given he’s considered by some to be the greatest pilot to have ever lived. For those who’ve also never heard the name:

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/ericbrown.html

I read his biography and often thought to myself “if this was fiction I’d say the author has overdone it because that can’t be real”.

One year after Kristian Stevenson bought his first flat, the 34-year-old received an unexpected demand for £4,000.

The property factor who looks after the roof, garden and maintenance of his tenement flat in Cessnock, Glasgow, claimed that he was liable for a debt owed by somebody else in the building.

The letter from 91BC, which manages almost 4,430 properties, said: “Our role as factor is to facilitate communal works and charges relating to your building. We have exhausted our debt collection process and as a last resort, we must reapportion this debt to you.”

The £16,000 bill for the building, which Stevenson said was run up before he purchased the two-bed property, had never been mentioned in conveyancing and he was liable to pay £4,200. Nothing existed in the title deeds to suggest he would be culpable for somebody else’s debt. The factor said the deeds were outdated and he must pay the bill according to their written statement of service, which he said he did not receive until two years after moving into the property he bought for £180,000.

The statement of service did state that homeowners were jointly liable for debt, even if they did not cause this themselves, as is the case for most property factor contracts.

Stevenson, a freelance TV and film production co-ordinator, pays about £130 a month to 91BC and said the “absurdly high bill” included £6,000 in late payment fees and legal fees the property factor paid when chasing the other owner’s debt.

“If I was to pay this off it would wipe out any savings I’ve rebuilt,” he said. “A substantial bill without notice, consultation or even a real explanation is both unethical and a poor business strategy.

“Dealing with a massive sum of money like that puts significantly a lot of pressure on me.”

There are hundreds of thousands of property owners like Stevenson across Scotland collectively paying tens of millions of pounds each year to factors who are almost impossible to hold to account.

A long multi-step complaints process, which requires homeowners to compile evidence and documents and often take legal advice, has been blamed for poor regulation and accountability of property factors.

do you have any personal paranormal experiences? what’s your favourite ghost/folklore story/legend that’s tied to scotland? Just came from a post about how edinburgh has a dark eerie energy, what’s your thoughts?!

Anyone noticed how many supermarket items are wrongly priced and go through Morrisons tills a couple quid more than they are advertised on the shelf.

I spotted this happen to me in a co op and started to pay a bit more attention. Didn't happen again at the co op but at morrisons it's every single shop. Yesterday it was pepper marked at 1.79 that went through the till at 2.20. Morrisons immediately alter it which makes me think it's a known intentional scam.

Every single shop this year there has been at least one. Some as far as £5 marked up from what's advertised. It's not a members discount or anything as I made sure of this early on. Just either incompetence or a scam.

Just went to Sainsbury's there as I'm fed up with Morrisons and had the same thing happen on a £2 kombucha that went through the till at 2.95. No club card discount just the shelf price then an invisible 95p added to it ...

Not like the massive hikes these firms have put on everything isn't enough they now put up fake prices.