Would you care for a fruited teacake? #Waldy&Bendy #XmasTeacake

Grok reckons this is a real photo.

The process is the wrong way round: buyer finds property they want, then seeks finance.

Solution: all real estate sales to be by auction. Each property to have a Standardised Information Pack™. Lenders offer finance against criteria in SIP. Buyer then bids for something that fits and they like.

What a revelation - just lovely.

Unless emeritus. Suspect Goodwin is more demeritus.

Before the discovery of Neptune?

You can do that with a search engine, with the bonus that you're not burning the planet for a trivial purpose.

It's not always that straightforward. Not everyone purchases their home, and some inherited estates come with constraints that inhibit simple disposal.

In most cases, certainly. But not in all cases.

Many possible scenarios. Mostly around inheriting estates under single or linked titles where constraints (legal or social obligations) mean they cannot be sold without negative external impacts. Small numbers, but such circumstances do exist.

In most cases, but not in every case.

Of the 'landsknecht' type. Anyone seeing 'sticks like this should take the greatest care: most are reproductions or fakes.

BREAKING: the meaning of the word "breaking".

Hazy memories as a young child wandering the path to the lighthouse, but the path was bounded by rusty barbed wire and, I think, signs warning of unexploded mines. 1970s. Am I imagining some of that?

*25 wkts.