The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Possession

LOL my parents are in their late 60's and eat virtually anything! Although my dad now has various food intolerances and has a lot of things he can't eat but would really like to.
Mar if pasta tastes slimy to you you're probably eating it overcooked. Try it al dente (with a bit of bite).

Pooky

DH's parents will eat anything and everything too and love coming round for one of my chillies, I love cooking for them as they just enjoy their food so much.

My grandparents were amazing cooks (we lived in the same house as them when I was growing up) and I would be constantly called into my Nans kitchen to try something new - duck in orange sauce, steak in pepper sauce, garlic fried potatoes etc - all very exciting things to me considering the bland food my mum used to serve. My uncle and grandad owned a fishing boat so we used to have crab crawling around the patio most weekends until it was their turn for the pot, I loved sitting there with a little hair pin, picking the meat out of the claws...yum!

It's amazing how many memories of my childhood relate to food and my grandparents - they grew everything they could, the sheer pleasure of being allowed to go pick my own bunch of grapes from the greenhouse vine was something I took for granted but the smell of vines now really takes me back. My great aunt had a small holding nearby so we used to go collect eggs and play with the lambs, very idyllic really.

Just been to buy paint and supplies to decorate the downstairs loo - it's very "old lady" with patterned tiles and an almond coloured loo and sink....it's very much a case of a coat of paint to cover it all and make it more appealing for now as it's not getting properly replaced until the suite needs replacing. Just need to find the energy now to clear it out and get it all scrubbed down......oh and I need to finish cleaning the drive - DH has lost enthusiasm for that, I got the sand to repoint the joints so there's no excuse......unless someone can think of one? please? ....

paidinchickens

Hello everyone........ neighbour wars update.....


Next door and the Crazy Woman (CW) had another set to on sunday.

Just thought I'd pop a couple of pics on for you to see what I'm on about.

PiCx

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PIC is the silver car in the front of the picture hers? and is the tarmac she's parked across your only access in and out? If it is and she constantly parks like that trapping you and your neighbours in she is also parked in a way that would keep emergency services out. I would think the first thing to do is have a word with the letting agent about it, he/she is responsible for the interests of the owner and might be able to have a wee word in crazy womans ear. Does she actually have off tarmac parking available to use? If she does then she's pushing her luck, if she doesn't she's being very inconsiderate to the rest of you, looking at the photo surely she could park the car along the front of the house and leave room for access for the rest of you?

paidinchickens

Lyn that is the corner of the house, she has a length of drive and a garage.



There is another half a car length then a garage. This is how she parked when she knew her landlady was coming today!

Poor next door has had enough, the landlady was lovely but at a loss of what to say. The woman has it in her head it's a shared drive not shared access. She thinks she can park on any of the shared area but then she knows she's wrong when she moves for her LL.

She also has a gravel front to the side of the silver car where she parks in the day when next door is out.

paidinchickens

Forgot to add this is are only way in or out for three houses

PiCx

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Might need a solicitors letter and do you have your deeds showing you have a right of access? If so she doesn't have a foot to stand on, show her the clause and ask her very politely to allow enough room for you all to pass. Might be worth taking some advice from Citizens Advice if you have a branch close enough to get to. It would be worth taking a photo of where she's parked every time she does it with the date and time of day on it to show the landlady next time she comes to inspect the property. I think it's not lawful to block access for the emergency services but I'm not certain, might be worth checking that out, Lyn xxx.

paidinchickens

We have the deeds with it all written on and she has had a copy from a neighbour. The whole lot of goings on has been relayed to the LL and to be fair to her there's not a lot she can do apart from tell her not to park there.


I think she just had it in for next door and as I wouldn't side with her she has turned on us. The dog poo blame made her look silly and yesterday afternoon she shouted hello blahh bllahhh etc over our gate and we ignored her (as earlier in the week she was shouting over the back fence that her son would be back soon to have words with certain people). Later on she brought her sister up to pick a fight on the parking issue.

I just popped the pics up so you had a rough idea of the lay out when I blabber on about it in future really as I can't see this being the end.

On the plus side ........... no drama over the dog issue, he stopped following and this morning we nearly came nose to nose at the park gate and he just looked at his dog .........who was on a lead!

PiC x

Hard_Up_Hester

Thank you all for your suggestions about food for the inlaws.
Mrs LW, thank you for your lovely thoughtful comment on both threads, hubby is bearing up better today, I think he was in shock y'day, I had a feeling there would be no good news & had tried to prepare him, either I was too subtle or he didn't want to hear.
Hester

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Well done on one problem being on the way to be sorted out, I'm glad the poor GSD was on a lead, it's its own worse hazard isn't it? If you talk to the local fire brigade they might have a fire prevention officer who will come and look at the situation and maybe have a word with her? She might just listen to 'officialdom' where she won't listen to the three of you. At least you'll have taken some advice on fire safety which might benefit you and have flagged up a potential problem to the Fire Brigade for the future.