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

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HUGS GQ, shame you don't have an oubliette in the basement at Shoebox Towers for the permanent incarceration of idiots isn't it? perhaps the council would fund the digging of one as an alternative use of all the cash it must take to repair the damage to thier properties? Hope today isn't too ghastly for you as a result , Cheers Lyn xxx.

VJsmum

monnagran wrote: »

Then I did a bit of watering during which I laid the the running hose down on the garden for a moment. It promptly kinked itself, reared up and treated me to an unscheduled, al fresco, very cold shower. Not funny.

x

Erm, it is quite funny!!

GreyQueen wrote: »

Haven't managed to get off to sleep since. That's the 3rd episode if just under a fortnight. All just before or after midnight and causing maximum alarm and disturbance.

Poor you - I will know something of this feeling over the weekend as, finally, it's Glastonbury :j:j:j:j (Obviously mine is self-inflicted so not really the same). I have ear plugs and eye mask packed.

DS and I are packed and ready to go. We've got everything into 2 rucksacks, a bag for the tent and a bag of food.

Catch you on the other side, all. Have a good weekend.

Valli

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Mrs Fuddle! I am shocked, shocked. I thought it was a northern thing, but mebbe it was NW not NE.

I was told about this by pals who are expatriate Lancastrians who are about 60-ish. It was already a bit old-fashioned in their childhood, sort of rubbing the donkeystone over the front step titivate it.

Erm I'M not that old and I know what it is and I *think* I remember seeing pinny-clad ladies actually doing it.:rotfl:

(popped over from Flylady - might stay/pop in if I may?)

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

HUGS GQ, shame you don't have an oubliette in the basement at Shoebox Towers for the permanent incarceration of idiots isn't it? perhaps the council would fund the digging of one as an alternative use of all the cash it must take to repair the damage to thier properties? Hope today isn't too ghastly for you as a result , Cheers Lyn xxx.

If only.

They're not council tnts in that place, btw; it's owned by a housing charity providing temp accomodation for the homeless.

We have a lot of their properties around here and they cause such a lot of trouble that they have to provide a 24/7/365 emergency phone line for us to ring to report whatever disgusting and antisocial thing their residents are up to on any given day or night. It was their people who were brawling t'other night and the polis were in and out of that address all yesterday whilst I was at work, according to SG.

Given the unutterably vile behaviour of so many people thus accomodated, I find myself unsurprised that they aren't able to keep a conventional roof over their heads.

Valli, do stay; it was a 60 y.o. pal from the NW who told me that it was already opn its way out when she was a child.

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Hello VALLI, lovely to have new friends come in and play, please do stay and chat and share with us all, the more the merrier, and we're pretty merry most days!!! Nice to have you with us, Cheers Lyn x.

Valli

Thanks for the welcomes! (note to self p 16) am much amused by the number of you who are EXACTLY the same vintage (1960) as yours truly.

I'm orginally from the NorthWest (near Blackburn) but got transplanted in 1974.

I'm all excited because my spuds are flowering (well the first lot I planted) - gave up the allotment when I moved here but have a patch in the garden I'm working on. I also grow strawberries, rhubarb and blackcurrants.

day off (paid work, I'm P/T) today and lots to do (cleaning etc) also DS has gone out so I can get on unhindered.

monnagran

GQ: Surely the blighters have to sleep sometime. It would be good to invite a brass band round to have a quick practice outside their place, say about 5.30am with a repeat performance every couple of hours or so. If they could be kept awake all day they might be desperate for sleep themselves come nighttime. Plotting your revenge might be the only way to combat this.

VJsmum: enjoy Glastonbury. Our festival was a couple of weekends ago and was much quieter than usual. A combination of fear of what happened last year (torrential, nonstop rain and traffic chaos with ferries banked up unable to get their passengers off), and less money about to spend on extortionate ferry fares and entrance fees, were probably responsible. We'll see what the Bestival is like in September.

Valli: Welcome. It's good here. Lots of love and support and moments of pure comic silliness.

This is my displacement activity. Should be writing a magazine but keep being interrupted by visitors and phone calls.
Come to think of it, it must be time for coffee.

Have a good one everyone.

x

nuttyp

GQ, that would have scared the pants of me, those fireworks must be industrial sized. We have similar things here, next door were raided sunday for having a 'farm' in there house. It was numerous plants of the dodgy sort. There was a strange stinky smell from there, so now we know why!! Dim I am lol

Yesterday was another busy day, only saw one fight in the street outside work. Things are improving.

I watched the tennis at work, one of the perks of the job along with drinking lots of tea and coffee!! Its a hard life sometimes.

Today is the ALDI voucher in the paper, the other % coupons aren't really that helpful to me today. Mainly for sun cream, and a few baking bits n bobs and sweets. Still I saved £5 and I have another one to use up next Thursday.

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MONNAGRAN on the plus side, you don't have to find OS ways of dealing with the I O W Baguette mountain this year do you??? Cheers Lyn xxx.

FairyPrincessk

OOh, thanks for the mention of the Aldi vouchers NuttyP. They're usually in that paper named after the big yellow ball, aren't they? Will get OH to check the staff room at the end of the day as they usually throw them out.

Welcome Valli!

Work is very slow today, so slow I've barely gotten started. Trying not to be too hard on myself though, as I'm just beginning something new and it always seems slow at the start. Usually means I'm getting my thoughts sorted out.