Breaking Through, Travelling On

smallholdingsister

Oh dear. I can see why you warned me about semis.

Karmacat

Exactly! You can't ever **trust** that good neighbours will stay good neighbours either. My mum looks like the ideal person to have through the party wall, a quiet elderly pensioner. But she's mostly deaf, and before she got her hearing aid, she turned the TV up **really** loud. And she gets a lot of sleepless nights herself, so she potters around in the kitchen - and she's very careless about closing doors - the neighbours complained, I'm not kidding! I'd put up with an awful lot to have a detached house, SHS :kisses3:

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Unfortunately I won't be making my fortune today - am dizzy with lack of sleep, my neighbours stopped playing music at 1am and started again at 4.15. Most unpleasant. I may have to splash out on sound insulation materials ...

Or you could play your music loud all day as a revenge!


During our 'down-sizing' chats, one of the negatives is that we'd probably have to be 'attached' again. This house is detached, and it makes such a difference. The only noise we hear is our own!


Hope you have a nice relaxing day

[Deleted User]

Grrrrr to noisy neighbours:mad:.

OH's newly-widowed father lived in a semi and we stayed there with him for a year while we were doing our current place up. The neighbours there were absolutely ideal apart from the husband being an opera fan. Most evenings he would play his records at full volume and they were always of some high-pitched soprano going on and on:eek: (Wagner, I think). I quite like opera but his taste and mine were just not the same.

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Or you could play your music loud all day as a revenge!

Ooh no, that goes to The Dark Side Of The Force, there should be a Yoda quote for that, but I can't find it

During our 'down-sizing' chats, one of the negatives is that we'd probably have to be 'attached' again. This house is detached, and it makes such a difference. The only noise we hear is our own!


Hope you have a nice relaxing day

The day was lovely, thank you! A smallish garden centre as these things go, but an individual specialist one, and though they had their Christmas stuff up, a lot of it was completely individual, never seen anything like it. We were really chuffed

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Grrrrr to noisy neighbours:mad:.

OH's newly-widowed father lived in a semi and we stayed there with him for a year while we were doing our current place up. The neighbours there were absolutely ideal apart from the husband being an opera fan. Most evenings he would play his records at full volume and they were always of some high-pitched soprano going on and on:eek: (Wagner, I think). I quite like opera but his taste and mine were just not the same.

Yikes :eek: High pitch drives me crazy in short order - and anyway, I like my quiet

Hope everyone has a good evening.

Cheery_Daff

Aw KC, sorry you've had trouble with the neighbours again It really is the pits. We're looking to move somewhere detached and I've vowed never to be attached again! Hope tonight is more peaceful...

smallholdingsister

That really puts me off1

Karmacat

Thank you Cheery! I'm glad you're going for detached, for your sake.

SHS, these are the real life experiences - you can't control *who* is through the party wall, so be warned!

They were on the pavement when I came home yesterday, part of their building business going on, so my fave dog was out there too - her name is Lady and she's the quietest, most obedient, most devoted dog you've ever seen. I call to her in a really quiet voice, and she agrees to be petted for a minute or two before looking longingly at her owner. It's entrancing

I've been tidying today - kitchen tetris its just about done. Quiet day today, mostly preparing to go back to work tomorrow (i.e. a bit of cleaning, to ensure I don't have to do it all by midday tomorrow!). The morning mist has just about gone, and its sunny and beautiful out there, so I *will* get outside too.

Tomorrow - its the start of week 46 in the retirement countdown. I have to continually acknowledge to myself that actually, its not retirement - its stopping the counselling. The work that will be taking its place is writing, and I'll be doing as much as I can in tandem with the counselling. The whole thing about being a megastar on kindle can then come into play, in short order :D:D

beanielou

Tidying too.
OT visit next week!!

Karmacat

Good news! I had an hour long phone interview from the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome clinic - during the course of which it became abundantly clear that I don't actually have the *syndrome*, I have the fatigue - a combination of stress and burnout. It was remarkable how a simple series of factual questions could make that so clear. Follow up phone interview in a few weeks to work out coping techniques till I retire - obviously, I try my best, but input is always good.

Roll on retirement!

Beanie - hope the OT visit goes well, as well as my phone interview, in fact!

Today, I've got my first in -person session of the week, yesterday I just had a phone session, after a cancellation. So today is the cleaning deadline and I've done everything peripheral, but not the stairs and not the counselling room itself, oops. Or the outside of the porch, which desperately needs to be swept free of spider webs - a white door facing east attracts them like magnets, the little beggars :rotfl: