| lesley153
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Sorry, stopped to early. Next time they annoy me, I shall get in touch with the owners and see what I can find out. The last time I spoke to them was before my op. He said he'd ring me to find out how I was. Still waiting but not bothered enough to tell them that it's coming up for twelve months.
He also thought that it was pretty funny that the tenants had severed my telephone wire. Would have been even funnier if it had been my only phone, and their house was on fie. We can but wish. |
Reply #2961. Jul 02 11, 1:38 PM
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Lesley why not ring the owner next time it happens and say that you can smell burning coming from his property but you cant get out to look as your legas are bad. Don't want to phone fire brigade in case it is not a house fire.
If he rings fire brigade is him gets done and hopefully his tennats outed by him because trouble of a false alarm fire call out
Reply #2962. Jul 02 11, 2:01 PM
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| lesley153
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He wouldn't do that. He'd want to see the fire first, and I'd end up looking like the sort of person you see at three o'clock in the morning, wearing her nightie and wandering along the motorway shouting at cars.
I asked the man in the car, the second time he phoned me, if he thought I should get in touch with the owners to tell them what was happening.
"Er... well.. "
Yes?
"Put it this way. How would you feel if someone rang you at midnight..."
No, I had no intention of ringing them now. I was thinking At All, not Now.
I think it's a man thing. Ask a woman and she will think of a time when it might be done, if at all. Ask a man, and he thinks it means dropping everything and doing it NOW! Why does the male brain incorporate immediacy into everything? Well, everything except coming home from the pub. Aaaargh. |
Reply #2963. Jul 02 11, 4:00 PM
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Seems councils do not give a damn really, the noise etc is not effecting me so why worry scenario, been there myself a friend used to have terrible probs with a nosiy neighbour it was eventually sorted to my friends satisfaction but took a few months.
In the end we had video recordings as well as tape recordings and a bit of skull duggery but the people causing probs ended up moving out and were homeless for breaking tenancy conditions, the girls fella was sent down for drug dealing few months later and she was under investigation from dss for benefit fraud.
There are ways and means to sort your problem get Jpnathan to check things out and i will dop some research this end.
Mind you would the owner like 6 0r 7 nights being woken at 3am by phone calls?
Reply #2964. Jul 02 11, 4:30 PM
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I don't think he'd like it at all. When the owners were living next door, she said that she could hear Jonathan's violin-playing. Yes, it did disturb her a bit... I suggested we agree a practice curfew - say 9pm - and she said she went to bed at half-past EIGHT. When Jonathan heard about it, he stopped playing at home.
When I complained that I was now suffering from next door's noise. she laughed. I must confess that this sort of piggish selfishness and hypocrisy does rankle a bit.
He'll be here some time tomorrow. He'll probably need to sleep for a week, and then we can talk about it. |
Reply #2965. Jul 02 11, 5:49 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Welcome home, Jonathan! Lesley, have fun, and do 'stuff' together!:)
Reply #2966. Jul 02 11, 11:07 PM
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Welcome home Jonathan now help mum sort the riff raff next door, am sure you can make them behave like human beings rather then rejects
Reply #2967. Jul 03 11, 1:32 AM
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Lesley.........your 2963 posting...........is training you know, least with those of us who have served Queen and Country.
For example, my good lady wife, can never understand how it is I can waken from sleep and instantly switch to what passes these days for "actions"....she takes a time to "come to" when she "surfaces".
I explained.....we were trained to react instantly, you have not got the luxury of telling an enemy to "wait a moment, whilst I pull myself together"........get up now, MEANS now!
Hence it stays with us.........."do something now", says brain........act first, think second, it matters not WHAT you do as long as you are seen to be doing something!
That's my excuse anyhow!
Neighbours.........I'm lucky, always had good ones......at least since I moved up here in 1994. However, two houses down the road, dwell a family with teenage offspring. Recently said offspring have acquired a drum kit. In fairness, I suppose it is impossible to play drums quietly, and unless I am out in my garden I can't here them anyhow...however my immediate neighbour is not so lucky.
He has had occasion to "speak nicely" to them.......and pondered one of life's little mysteries, namely why the drums only start up when the parents go out! Return of parents to abode = peace and quite returning - strange coincidence that is!
Reply #2968. Jul 03 11, 2:24 AM
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| lesley153
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Now I understand! My H did two years in the Royal Navy, hated every moment of it, hardly talked about any of it, and had little sense of urgency about anything, and yet he still responded to everything I asked him with "not now."
Me too. I always had wonderful neighbours till I moved here in 1986.
I seem to remember seeing that it is possible to get a training kit. Plug it in, and the only person who can hear anything is the one with the earphones. |
Reply #2969. Jul 03 11, 5:20 AM
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Having a rock band rehearse in one's living room (especially a "Death Metal" ensemble complete with "Cookie Monster" vocals, seems to cure the neighbours of playing their music loudly. Worked for us anyway :-D)
Reply #2970. Jul 03 11, 11:12 AM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, what are Gothson's rates? Travel expenses paid, of course.
Thank you Gary, all information gratefully accepted. When I went next door with Jonathan, when he was about ten, the owner's first wife was there. She was 23 and she still knew everything, but she was very kind to me - she pointed out slowly, in nice easy words, that she had the windows open because it was A Warm Day. Her response to our request to turn the sound down "a bit" was a lofty "I'll think about it." By the time we got back to the house, she'd actually made it louder. With what I know now, I'd have got her for that, but that was then...
Any approaches to the current neighbours have been met with "Oh shut [space] up" and sprinklings of Anglo-Saxon, so it's not really worth trying to talk to them.
Bed soon. Sprog's gf needs to be at the station at 7am. God help me. |
Reply #2972. Jul 03 11, 4:27 PM
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| lesley153
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Cardiac exercise class today, and I'd spent the week being mildly stressed about what I'd do if the brain-dead old trout came anywhere near me again.
I told the man who runs the sessions that I would give her a wide berth, although what I was really thinking was "you'd better keep her well away from me." A few days later, when I was starting to feel more like me again, I told him I'd rip her head off first and work out where to put it later, although I realise that doing that could make me look like a bad person, so I just contented myself with making sure that my squirty drinking-water bottle was full.
Today when I joined the group, I think she may have leaned out to address me but I just leaned the other way so I couldn't see or hear her. Later on, when we were walking round, I was talking to my partner - a very nice man! - and BDOT and another woman were right behind us. We weren't hurrying, and there was a big space in front of us.
When I've been stuck behind the people at the back of a gap, I've just overtaken them. That's what people do. It's really very easy. No, not today. BDOT's pal told me that we had to move up. I might have been friendlier if I hadn't been convinced that BDOT had told her to say it.
No, I said, we're comfy at this speed. If you see a gap, you're welcome to nip round us to fill it up.
"We can't do that. We're here."
And we're here, I said, so tough 5hit.
Which was a bit naughty of me, I suppose. Do I care? not so's you'd notice.
End of conversation. "We can't move because We're Here"? Never heard that one before! |
Reply #2973. Jul 06 11, 3:09 PM
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| lesley153
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| Today my seventeen-year-old nephew passed his driving test at his first attempt, in London, in the pouring rain, with three minors. Hrumph. |
Reply #2974. Jul 07 11, 2:35 PM
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Professer
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you seem to have a lot of fun Lesley and you are definetly better behaved then i would be, probably have told that woman they can do wonderful things with personality transplants here have you asked about it :)
I loved the blog made me smil after the stresses of today
Reply #2975. Jul 07 11, 3:37 PM
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| lesley153
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Gary, pleased to hear it!
I don't think the Trout's scrawny lackey would have regarded me as well-behaved, since I used A Slightly Naughty Word to her, but Trout can be grateful that at least her head is still attached to the rest of her. So she can be grateful that I've saved her life, and the man who runs the sessions can be grateful that I've saved him a lot of paperwork.
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How do you give someone a lift at four o'clock in the morning? My first thought was to stay up all night, but I thought I'd try and get a bit of sleep. Do people really go to bed at ten o'clock? I got into bed at 10.30, gave it two hours, gave up, couldn't sleep and too hungry to think straight. Went downstairs at 12.30, had some sandwiches and two cups of coffee, and played mindlessly till 3.30.
We piled in the car, got to the station just after 4am, and J went with her to the airport. He got back to Bedford station at 6.30 and I went back and picked him up. Got home and fell into bed. If she ever wants to do this again, I will give her the money for a hotel in Luton. |
Reply #2976. Jul 08 11, 9:59 AM
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Professer
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You are right Lesley how do you get up take someone at 4am makes me pleased i do not drive.
Things are sent to try us hope you have a good weekend.
Reply #2977. Jul 08 11, 2:27 PM
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| lesley153
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| Two cups of coffee helped. :) |
Reply #2978. Jul 08 11, 2:54 PM
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| lesley153
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Happy news to share. Jonathan learnt this evening that he's got a 2:1. Whoopee! The loud noise you heard was a champagne cork popping.
Not real champagne... but still nice. :) |
Reply #2979. Jul 08 11, 5:02 PM
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redwaldo
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Give Jonathon my congratulations-an important achievement!
Reply #2980. Jul 08 11, 5:50 PM
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