Dirty Pigs!

RuthnJasper

mandragora wrote: »

All of that was a very long time ago - and as I grew up moving from house to house every year or two (services dad) and was well used to giving things a throrough clean on 'march-in' as well as 'march out' (hyper-clean mum) very little phased me. I took lots of photos at the time, it gave me a wierd sense of pride and self-respect to get stuck in with the Marigolds, a BIG bottle of bleach, hot water and some bin bags.

You're right Mandragora; there is a certain pride in beating all that. As for the males of the neighbourhood 'herd', I strongly suspect that they'd much rather have you in the house than the smells... Imagine what it must've been like in a heatwave...! _pale_

mandragora_2

RuthnJasper wrote: »

You're right Mandragora; there is a certain pride in beating all that. As for the males of the neighbourhood 'herd', I strongly suspect that they'd much rather have you in the house than the smells... Imagine what it must've been like in a heatwave...! _pale_

I don't think it was their noses that were leading them...

It's fine - you'd have to see them to know just how fine it was - that they were slightly disappointed and then turned back to their normal business, which is, ironically, for most of them, running herds of cattle!:rotfl:

RuthnJasper

mandragora wrote: »

I don't think it was their noses that were leading them...

It's fine - you'd have to see them to know just how fine it was - that they were slightly disappointed and then turned back to their normal business, which is, ironically, for most of them, running herds of cattle!:rotfl:

Haha! Probably not - though their noses were probably the bigger appendage of the two... :rotfl::rotfl:

I dare say some of their cattle were/are quite attractive in the right sunlight...

"We-ell, Jacob, looks like we got us here a runaway..."
"Oi s'll git me ferrets roit onto it Obadiah, soon as oi c'n git 'em owt me trowserz...";)

You've got to pity the poor kids who had to put up with all this through no fault of their own, though. Hope life holds better things in store for them. (And the ferrets).
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debrag

You should see our oven, the inside is great but one side of it is horrible full of god knows what, we don't want to move it as we have no clue what is living there! It has never been cleaned, same as the windows, it's like they went round every one putting dirt & mud in every place possible, also with the back door. It's tooth brush time for us.

clg86

vet8 wrote: »

Yes, as a former pig keeper, I agree. Pigs have a bad name. We should start a Pig Freedom Movement or something.

Really! I keep telling my boyfriend that we should get a pig. I know they are clean, it's just trying to convince him they are...

bap98189

Different people have different standards of hygiene and cleanliness. There's no right or wrong. Some people keep pets and let them run all over the house; others are incredibly house-proud, clean all the time and would be horrified if a dog came anywhere near the inside of their house. As for brown water, we used to get it all the time when I was a kid, especially if there had been rain recently. It was just silt or sand in the water as we lived in the country and the water supply for all the places round about came from a spring up on the hill and was filtered through gravel/sand. I'm guessing whoever sold this house fell into the first category whilst the OP falls into the second.

clg86

bap98189 wrote: »

Different people have different standards of hygiene and cleanliness. There's no right or wrong. Some people keep pets and let them run all over the house; others are incredibly house-proud, clean all the time and would be horrified if a dog came anywhere near the inside of their house. As for brown water, we used to get it all the time when I was a kid, especially if there had been rain recently. It was just silt or sand in the water as we lived in the country and the water supply for all the places round about came from a spring up on the hill and was filtered through gravel/sand. I'm guessing whoever sold this house fell into the first category whilst the OP falls into the second.

I agree, everybody has their own standards. I for one admit that I am not the tidiest of people, but having a professional come into my house and tell me that the brown water coming through my taps is, not due to sand or gravel or because the water has been sat there a while unused, (which it hadn't because we moved in on the day they moved out), but because the whole heating system had been put in wrong, quite dangerously and possibly illegally, and these people have been living with this water for god knows how long, makes me wonder how these people lived like this for so long.

I know people are used to living how they believe is acceptable, and that's fine, but to not be able to use a cooker or put food in the cupboards because of the the state they have been left in, to me puts those people in a completely different category...surely that is wrong on some level?

To be honest, my main concern now is finding the money to have my new house ripped apart because of a botch job that this guy did, and who tried to blame it on an "engineer that fitted it about 16 years ago", when the system and tank that is in is only a few years old!

We have an electrician coming round tomorrow too and god knows what he's going to find...:o

Owain_Moneysaver

bap98189 wrote: »

Different people have different standards of hygiene and cleanliness. There's no right or wrong.

I am the first to admit to not hoovering very frequently, but I think there's nothing wrong about being a bit judgemental on people who don't clean out ferret cages.

It's just not fair on the ferrets.

RuthnJasper

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

I am the first to admit to not hoovering very frequently, but I think there's nothing wrong about being a bit judgemental on people who don't clean out ferret cages.

It's just not fair on the ferrets.

Totally agree Owain. The hoover is NOT my best chum (quite apart from the fact that Jasper the dog thinks that the hoover is Satan's own representative on Earth and barks his threats to burn me in a giant "wicker hoover" if I so much as touch it in his presence). But the important areas (bathroom/food preparation areas/Jasper's bottom;)/etc.) are all kept 100% clean and hygenic.

I prefer to regard where I live as a 'home' rather than a 'house'.

Perhaps it was the ferrets that stitched-up their scuzzy neighbours...? They could've nicked the household credit-cards and max-relaxed on Ebay in a desperate whiskery bid for freedom and cleanliness!
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Bullfighter

Well, that's why you keep 5% of the purchase price aside in cash as a contingency for these sorts of issues.... you have kept 5% of the purchase price aside haven't you?