Some pictures from 2008

Perhaps you haven't visited our own website yet at bluedoorlettings.com but if you have and you think it looks good that is only partly down to me! All the hard work was done by a team of fantastic chaps at Switch Media in Liverpool.

I went up to visit them in the summer to talk about a new idea I have and I took some pictures while I was there. I had no idea that Liverpool was so cool! I'd never been there before and found everyone to be really friendly which was great for me who can talk the hind leg off a donkey.

Here are some Super LambBananas which I think were to to with the Capital of Culture 2008
This is Steve and Will the web designers
And some views that you don't see in Abingdon. I felt like a right country mouse visiting the Big Smoke!

And now to the countryside. I saw this nest and little chicks at a house in Eynsham in the spring. They were down low next to the front door so mama bird must have been quite confident that a cat wasn't going to get them!
Perhaps they thought I might feed them!

And here's a comfy cat (or is it a snake?) just for balance


Continuing on the animal theme, I almost jumped out of my skin at a new property on Cumnor Hill a couple of months ago. I pulled into the drive and got out of the car and as I turned around towards the house I was faced by a big deer about 10ft away. I think I out-stared him because he moved before I did!

My office is at the top of the stairs in 7 Stert Street and the dogs from downstirs in Redmayne Bentley have got me down as a soft touch. They wait until I am in my chair in the mornings before slinking up the stairs and poking their noses round the door for a biscuit.

We've had a couple of dog friendly houses this year too and the current owner's dogs featured in the advertising we did. A new dog is now happily installed and no doubt still sniffing the garden like mad!

Another year almost gone

It is almost the end of another year. We are still here fighting the good fight, doing lettings as it should be done and keeping landlords and tenants happy.

We are still growing, meeting new people and finding that people like us and what we do. We have only lost three customers in the whole time we have been trading which is a pity but we don't seem to be able to deal well with control freaks who want to micromanage everything about their property themselves. You pay us £65 per month to get on with it not to do it all yourself! Oh well, they have gone to new agents who we know are now suffering as we did.

Sadly not all agents have survived this past year. Charles Lawson has gone from Stert Street, Buckell and Ballard Sales or Adkin as it used to be has gone from the High Street and their lettings department from Bath Street have moved in there.

We hope that everyone else in Abingdon can hang on in the year to come as even though people hate estate agents for some reason we are all human and lots of us have families who need a salary coming in every month to keep a roof over their heads.

We are still hopeful that our way of doing business will continue to be attractive to new customers and there is no reason why it shouldn't be. We are the only fixed price agents in Oxfordshire with no add-ons or odd charges for this and that, just one simple fee and in times when money is tight even landlords like to know exactly what they will be paying out from month to month (barring changes in VAT......)

And, if I hit the target for new lets set by the wife I can buy myself a new pen!

Abingdon Blog Man He says YES!

Well the man from Abingdon's blog has put us back on his links! Thanks for that! It really is the best place to catch up on what is happening in Abingdon!

Happy Christmas to him and all who look at this blog and the popular www.abingdonblog.co.uk!

Been struck off the Abingdon Blog!

Well with this old credit crunch we have been so busy letting the properties that will not sell that I haven't updated this blog for months and months!!! To top it all the Abingdon Blog man has taken me off his links which made me a little sad.

Anyhooooo I hope to keep updating it from now on!