Wreck of the Week

So I was having lunch in Harvey Nicks Leeds with my grown-up daughter and a friend from way, way back and we were talking about the cost of buying a house and how almost impossible it is nowadays for our younger children to buy their first home, and Sian (daughter) started talking about how families should buy bigger properties together and share them. Sort of communal living but with investment. Olivia (friend) mentioned wills and what if one couple in the group split up, and we went back to concentrating on the six perfect starters we were sharing. Anyway, a few days later I saw this property and fell in love with it. I thought of being to live there with our six children/step-children and having enough space and privacy for everyone to live their own lives and raise their own families, but get to know each other better as we grew older. So, I emailed them all and told them to buy lottery tickets this weekend. Of course that failed. I felt bad about not putting th...