A couple was bamboozled after trying to find a property on GumTree they could move into together, after finding a dream place they were shocked on the morning of the first viewing

Renting a new home can come with a variety of complications, but one couple certainly were not expecting to find a 99-year-old already living in the home they had paid a deposit and rent for.

Young couple, Amy Da Cruz and Matthew Morgan, from Bridgend, wanted to find a place close to where they worked. Amy’s mum posted an advert on Gumtree, which was successful in catching a landlord’s attention. He approached them and said he had the perfect place.

Amy, a 22-year-old driver, said: “We started talking to the landlord on WhatsApp and got excited about the house. We were sent pictures of the inside and it seemed to have large bedrooms, a driveway, a big kitchen and a garden, so we were keen.”

The landlord had recently moved from the area to Plymouth and asked for a security deposit on advice from his lawyer. The couple, who hadn’t even seen the house yet but were desperately eager to have found their dream place, paid two payments of £300, believing they would get the deposit back if they didn’t like the place.

The landlord also claimed this would ensure that the couple would be able to afford to rent the property. Amy said: “We wanted the house. So we paid £300 in two payments on the understanding that we would get the money back if we didn’t like the house.”

On the day of the viewing the property in 2020, the couple’s excitement got the better of them and after being asked they dolled out another £500 as the first month’s rent. Amy said: “All of the emails and texts mentioned his solicitor and we had seen a copy of the tenancy agreement, so we had no reason to believe that something wasn’t right.”

The couple had transferred a significant amount of money but they had no reason to be suspicious of anything that had been asked of them. However after they turned up at the property they found that the house was occupied by its actual owner – who had no idea his home had been falsely placed on the rental market.

“I was so annoyed,” fumed Amy. “I emailed the landlord straight away asking what was going on. They emailed back saying that they had injured their foot and that they would meet us the next day. We knew something was up. I asked for the money back, but have not heard from them since.”

Matthew, then 26, who had given notice to his current landlord, was able to reverse the process before a new tenant was found. Whilst there were silver linings, the couple had been left £800 out of pocket.

Amy said: “We will never do something like this again. From now on we will only go through property management companies and never give money over before. We had our heart set on this place, we thought this would be our family home.”

Having willingly transferred the money, Amy’s bank have since said it’s unlikely she will ever get the money back.

The 99-year-old, Frank Ballinger has lived at the property in Brackla for around 30 years, described the moment he met the couple and realised that his home was offered for rent without his knowledge. “The couple came here one afternoon and they said that they were here to look at the house,” Mr Ballinger, a retired special constable at South Wales Police, said.

“I was confused at first, I said to them ‘are you sure it’s not the number across the road’ as there’s a couple of houses up for rent in the street. They were adamant that it was this house. I was just confused as to what was going on as I knew that I hadn’t put this house up for sale.

“I just told them that this house belongs to me. At first, I had my suspicions that I was being scammed.Hopefully, the person who is behind this scam is found.”

source: Mirror 

Do you like baths? Do you like KFC? If so, you might like KFC’s new fried chicken bath bomb.

The fast food giant has launched limited edition bath bombs, which smell like its secret spice mix.

Unlike conventional fizzybath products, KFC’s is shaped like a chicken drumstick. Though it still promises to create an ‘explosion‘ in the tub. So, if you want to smell like a boneless banquet, jump in.

Novelty retailerVillage Vanguard has worked with KFC to manufacture the oddity. Apparently, it really does smell like KFC’s famous recipe, a homage to the delicacy.

Sadly – of course – it’s not available anywhere. The company has launched the quirky bath bomb in Japan as a limited edition. Just 100 lucky winners will get to enjoy it.

Still, it’s quite interesting. How on earth do you get a bath bomb to smell like fried chicken? People around the world are excited.

One Twitter user said: “Be thankful you exist at the same time as KFC bath bombs.

“Another said: “Might quit my job and sell homemade KFC bath-bombs on Etsy”.

Not everyone appears all that keen, however.

One Twitter user said: “Somebody out there wants to smell like a bucket of chicken? Really?”

source: Mirror 

A pretty teenager is so scared of most foods she eats almost nothing except tinned spaghetti. Slender Leah Frost, 17, a college student from Leeds, has munched only on the stringy snack since she was a child.

Her mother Yvonne has tried everything to persuade her daughter to have a varied diet, including therapy, but nothing has worked. The only other foods Leah has been persuaded to add to her limited menu are chips, bread, cheese and sponge cake. Yet despite her poor high-carb diet Leah remains a svelte size eight.

Leah said: “If someone puts something down in front of me and I know it isn’t right it makes me feel anxious and scared to eat it. Even with the food I do eat it has to be right. Like with chips – I can’t just eat any chips. It puts me in some difficult situations when I’m out with my friends because a lot of them don’t know how bad my phobia is.”

to be scared of – félni valamitől, megrémülni valamitől
almost nothing – szinte semmi(t)
tinned – konzerv, tartósított
to munch – eszik csámcsogva, rágcsál, élvezettel eszik
stringy – madzagszerű, szálas, nyúlós, itt: spagetti szó helyett
to persuade sy to do sg – rávesz valakit, hogy valamit csináljon, meggyőz
varied diet – változatos étrend
including – beleértve, magába foglalva
to be persuaded to do sg – meg van győzve, hogy csináljon valamit
sponge cake – piskóta
despite sg – valami ellenére
high-carb diet – magas szénhidráttartalmú étkezés
svelte size eight – karcsú nyolcas méret (kb. 34-36)
anxious – itt: szorongó, pánikoló
any chips – itt: bármilyen csipsz
to put sy in a difficult situation – valakit nehéz helyzetbe hozni
phobia – fóbia

source: Mirror

Match the expressions with the definitions. 

1. to munch

2. varied diet

3. sponge cake

4. high-carb diet

5. tinned food

a, Eating various kinds of food

b, Preserved food in a specal can.

c, A very light cake made of flour, sugar, beaten eggs.

d, To chew food audibly or to eat with pleasure.

e, Eating foods having a high carbohydrate content.

answers: 1. d; 2. a; 3. c; 4. e; 5. b

Italian Spaghetti

Ingredients: 

– 1/2 pound Italian sausage (20 dkg)

– 4 cans tomato sauce

– 1 can diced tomatoes

– 2 bay leaves

– 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

– 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

– 1 teaspoon dried basil

– 1 teaspoon dried oregano

– salt and pepper to taste

– 1  package spaghetti

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Directions:

1. In a large pan, fry sausage over medium heat; drain and set aside.

2. In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, bay leaves, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, basil, oregano, salt, pepper and Italian sausage; mix well.

3. Simmer over medium-low heat for at least one hour

4. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes; drain.

5. Mix sauce with hot pasta; serve.

This is the bizarre moment a man decided to eat TWO spikey cactuses after seeing youngsters trying it online. And the daredevil managed to keep munching despite the needles piercing his cheeks, lips and hands.

The video shows competitive eater LA Beast, who rose to fame after eating 150 McDonald’s chicken nuggets, begin by warning viewers not to try it at home – a great start. His shouts of pain throughout are enough to make you wince, but he keeps going and completes the challenge in less than six minutes. With one liners like "I have spikes in my lips" and regular grimaces, it looks extremely painful. But the video has garnered over half a million hits, so the brave man has done it, he is a viral hit yet again.

source: www.mirror.co.uk

to decide to – dönteni
spikey – szúrós, tüskés
youngster – fiatal
daredevil – fenegyerek
to keep doing something – folytatni valamit, állandóan csinálni valamit
to munch – rágcsál, csámcsog, nyammog
despite – valami ellenére
competitive eater – versenyevő
to rise to fame – híressé válik, elhíresül
to warn – figyelmeztetni
pain – fájdalom
to make one wince – összerezzen, megborzong miatta
one liner – egysoros (mondás, vicc)
to garner – begyűjteni
brave – bátor
viral hit – vírusként terjedő siker (videó, zene)

Fill in the gaps with the right word. There is one extra.

1. You were really ……………….. to scare off the burglars by yourself.

2. My neighbour is a ……………….. . He has tried all the extreme sports.

3. The police ……………….. the public about an escaped prisoner.

4. I need to buy a new car. The old one ……………….. breaking down.

5. Jim went to see the doctor because of the sharp ……………….. in his knee.

answers: 1-brave 2-daredevil 3-warned 4-keeps 5-pain

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Drunk German falls asleep on top of horse called Sandy after mammoth drinking session

A drunk German admitted he ‘probably had one too many’ when he fell asleep on top of a horse called Sandy after a big night out on the town. Gallons of super-strength Bavarian beer did little to warm up car mechanic Guenter Schroeder, 26, when he left a pub in southern Germany without his coat. Having missed the last bus home, the reveller came across some stables, with a bed of comfy straw proving irresistible in the cold night air.

‘When I got inside there was plenty of straw, but the problem was that there were horses standing on it,’ he explained. ‘I’d got zapped on the private parts by an electric fence as I climbed into the paddock, and wasn’t keen to get zapped again. When I saw the blanket on the horse and the horse looked so peaceful that I decided if I can’t sleep under it I can sleep on top of it. And it was really warm and comfortable and the next thing I knew I was waking up with the police there.’

The beer fan came back two days later to apologise for scaring the horse’s owner Barbara Zoch, 38, and her 16-year-old daughter. ‘I tried to wake him up but he just carried on snoring away and refused to wake. So I called the police,’ explained Ms Zoch. ‘Judging by the state of him I imagine he had a pretty powerful hangover.’ A police spokesman added: ‘The one mystery is why the horse didn’t seem to care that he was there and let him just sleep on. In fact he only fell off when the officers tried to wake him and they were there to catch him.’

source: www.metro.co.uk

to admit – beismerni
to have one too many – többet inni a kelleténél
gallon – gallon = 3,8 l
super-strength – szuper-erős
Bavarian – bajor
reveller – mulatozó
stable – istálló
straw  – szalma
irresistible – ellenállhatatlan
to get zapped – áram megrázza
private parts – az alfele
electric fence – villanypásztor
paddock – bekerített kifutó
to be keen to do something – lelkesedni valamiért, kedve van valamihez
blanket – takaró
to apologise – elnézést kérni
owner – tulajdonos
to carry on – folytatni valamit
to snore – horkolni
judging by – valami alapján ítélve
hangover – másnaposság
to care – valakit érdekel valami

Fill in the gaps with the following words. There is one extra verb.

1. My sister decided to ……………….. after realising it was her fault.

2. George ……………….. smoking despite the doctor’s advice.

3. I’m not sleeping in the same room if you ……………….. .

4. I ……………….. take some pictures with my new camera. How about going hiking tomorrow?

5. She ……………….. she had stolen the camera.

answers: 1- apologise 2-carried on 3- snore 4-am keen to 5-admitted

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