Owning your own home

https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/19200930.secret-cinema-granted-permission-use-walthamstow-grounds/

They can't do it this year because they couldn't get Covid insurance and are saying they're going to do it next year instead.

I wouldn't mind if it was say three nights a week for two months or something, but they're proposing 5000 people, six nights a week, for three months (the whole of summer).

Also Secret Cinema are a commercial business which pretends to be an arts organisation to get funding and preferential treatment:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/14/secret-cinema-bailout-arts-venues

@Mickie_Cricket is the door connoisseur

Maybe I am an anti social fun sponge but I really hate this fad of taking over green spaces for expensive events. Finny P used to be a right state for ages after them.

Also Secret Cinema are a commercial business which pretends to be an arts organisation to get funding and preferential treatment

Not a very successful one. Even pre-COVID they appear to have burned about £15 mm of venture capital money without ever turning a profit!

That is the Active Partners business model.

That's only slightly more than our refurb. That progresses this weekend, all being well. Hoping to look slightly less like a squat once it's finished.

Ta. I didn't think it was a horrendous cost until I considered how many days I have to work to pay for it. Le sigh

My main annoyance is that the rendering and porch still look shit so it will stick out like a sore thumb.

But, I have a nice little project to try and wire a traditional looking brass doorbell button into our cheapo wireless doorbell to save having the ugly white plastic thing blutacked to the door frame.

We have a shit / fucked porch too. And woeful pointing.

Another project on the go to sort that and the front garden. £££££££

Should just knock the whole thing down and start again TBF

The VC priority checklist - hype > growth > users > revenue > gross profit > +ebitda

YEP!
Good news. As much as I like it, not to the detriment of the local area.

I thought they said 3 weeks? Set up is 3 months...

Nope

The company plans to hold one outdoor screening every day of the week – except Mondays – from Tuesday 6th July until Sunday 12th September.

http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/secret-cinema-set-to-host-walthamstow-events/

Setup is two weeks I think. Are you less relaxed about it now?!

That's 60 nights of having to listen to Dirty Dancing on repeat, with one day off a week.

I reckon that would be grounds for culpable homicide.

Soz - the missus has tickets to that.

If you could launch a subscription product for £X.99 / month (Cinema as a Service) this business is worth a billion, no sweat.

EWS1 survery has been completed, awaiting results. All good = sell flat, buy a nice house up North, girlfriend retrains, new jobs for us both. Not good = fuck knows, into the abyss.

Good luck! Keep us updated.

Fingers crossed, see you up North soon.

Thanks both, we'll see. I think it might fail because of the balconies but the part I'm really worried is if it's missing fire breaks or something outside of the scope of the govt funding.

Are the balconies stacked vertically or made of wood or something?

Can you share a pic of the building or streetview?

Some of them are sold as "winter gardens" but they're basically balconies. There's some wood like material on the floors and some cladding like material around them. I think the cladding stuff is some kind of pressed concrete and the wood is actually a plastic but I can't find the document I was looking at before but I'm hopeful they'll pass.

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Looks like a posh version of my old flat in bow, and that seemed to sail through the whole EWS thing without a hitch.

How was the survey done? They can't know if something behind a wall was missed out if they don't pull the wall apart and look. If I understand it correctly anyway.

Looks like a posh version of my old flat in bow, and that seemed to sail through the whole EWS thing without a hitch.

don't get my hopes up, but I'm happy for you.

How was the survey done? They can't know if something behind a wall was missed out if they don't pull the wall apart and look. If I understand it correctly anyway

dunno tbh, I've heard quite a bit of drilling and similar noises the last few days but that could just be a neighbour. There's a building down the road that failed the EWS1 hard and it's got little patches of brick missing all over with numbers signs behind.

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