Isn't a growbag is an old bagpipe filled with dirt? :) I'm surprised Scotland is zone 8, but I guess that's what happens when gardening zones are defined by minimum winter temperatures. I'm in western Canada, zone 3, so winters would be a heck of lot colder than Scotland, but summers maybe warmer. Anyway, I'm at 53.5 degrees North, so probably have similar long summer daylight as Scotland. Your greenhouse and temperate climate should give you a long growing season, but light may play a factor too, with growth slowing as the days get shorter even if you can keep the temperature up. I get shut down here by late September regardless as frost threatens. As someone above mentioned, varieties of C. annum will probably work best for you as they grow and ripen the fastest. In my experience, I find getting fruit set on hot peppers a lot easier than on bell peppers. You might do okay with bells in your greenhouse. Watch for insect pests, they can multiply quickly in a greenhouse, though you certainly wouldn't have any natural pepper pests in Scotland. That's all I can think of off the top of my head... oh, I'm growing "Matchbox" this year, a hot pepper, going to start hardening them off tomorrow in preparation for planting into pots and maybe directly in the garden too, in another week or two.

$171K would reimburse their purchase price and pay the commission. BUT -- maybe they overpaid; maybe yours is a buyers market; maybe their company will pick up some part of their costs. (Never mind that they paid real estate taxes, etc.; they were LIVING there! It's like "rent".) Fair market price may be $175K, but maybe it will sell for less. If you are in a buyers market, and YOU have to sell in another year, what might YOU get for it? I'd offer $165K and start negotiating. You can always go up, but you can't easily go down. You will want a time constraint in the contract offer and a building inspection clause. The house will need to appraise for the price for mortgage approval. I'd bet they would be happy to get their original price back, and that their company will pay the RE commission. If they don't like your offer, they can counter. Don't tell anyone what your top offer would be but know it yourself. ($175K? Less?)

Thanks Emily. Litterbox seems fine, though he shares with two other cats so it's hard to see what he's producing all the time. But his urinalysis came back normal. He does seem to be drinking a lot but his kidneys came back normal too. The vet specifically did some extra tests to make sure the kidneys were fine. Appetite is fine, he's sleeping a lot too but I think that's correlated with moving less. He doesn't hesitate to jump up and down on things. We had an incident over Christmas break where another cat of mine got loose (he's separated and has his own room because he attacks my other cats) and got into a huge fight with this cat. The mean cat was chasing this cat all over the house, attacking, and i'm sure they both flew down the stairs. We were able to get them separated after a few minutes, and this cat seemed fine but I'm wondering if he was injured during that attack. This seems to be about the time when things started changing. But 2 months seems like a long time to have an injury that doesn't show up on xrays. The vet said xrays aren't really helpful in showing soft tissue problems. I'm just frustrated because he seems to be in pain but I don't know what to do for him other than continue the supplements. He doesn't need to use the stairs but unless I lock him in a room, he's going to keep using them. All his stuff is upstairs but of course he wants to be downstairs with the family so he ends up going up and down the stairs at least 10 times a day.

I don't get calls from my own number, but sometimes I will get a call that has the same area code and the same first three numbers but then different last four numbers. I know not to pick up. When I was in college in the 1970s, I got an obscene phone call, which I found amusing. I asked the caller to be more specific, and he hung up and did not call back. This was way before caller ID.