We all need to be heard for a little while.

codemonkey

I would but I don't want to get my neighbours in trouble too. They deal a bit but they're nice people. I'm ok with that. Just don't want a farm on my street.

Think I'll look for the other signs and if they're there, I'll think about it. I'm from an area where being a 'grass' was the worst thing you could be so...

Plus, after my attack and the police blaming me, I have no confidence in them.

whitewing

It probably wouldn't get your neighbours in trouble.

In any case, your neighbours are drug dealers.

ETA: if you want to pm me the address of the potential cannibis farm, I will report it for you.

tea_lover

I wouldn't worry code. A friend of mine had dealer neighbours for years and it took the police ages to do anything about it. These were heavy duty dealers and real nasty pieces of work (used to scream at my friend and her baby when they left the house, bang on the door in the middle of the night etc). This was all in a supposed 'nice' area.

The bloke was eventually sent to prison and the house reposessed. But it took years.

whitewing

I thought there were new powers that came in at the end of last year that gets things dealt with more quickly?

codemonkey

I don't mind the 'dealers'. They deal in their own crop to a few people only. They're nice people and good neighbours and I wouldn't know if a mutual friend hadn't told me. I've considered buying from them when the pain is bad.

The potential farm is a few houses up and something potentially bigger than a few plants which is not good, if that's what it is. I'm going to have a nosy on the way home and see if I can spot anything else, like blacked out windows. There was one busted on my mum's street with loads of plants and they'd stolen power from the lampost.

whitewing

I am happy to report it for you, if it will help.

codemonkey

Might take you up on that later whitewing. I can't remember the house number and I want to take another look.

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Today I got a volunteer firemans number, things are going well.

Could I have your volunteer fireman's number, too, WaS please? Please WaS?

Georgie, you have such lovely memories! You are sooooooo lucky to have had such a lovely Dad! And it sounds as if you are just like him!

Do you have any children? If you do, a lovely legacy would be to pass on to them your Dad's zest for life in the same way! If you don't have any, then why not pass on that zest to other people anyway.....friends, yes, but even strangers! You know, like seizing an opportunity to make a funny comment to someone next to you in the supermarket queue, or suchlike!
I think passing on a smile or a joke to someone is great, cheers them up a bit, cheers yourself up too!

Mind you, the lady serving in the Charity shop I popped into after Zumba today wasn't very responsive to my inane grin! She was a right grumpy old thing! Moaning because I didn't have less than a £20 note to buy something for £2.99. She had to go and speak to the manageress, for some reason, because when she returned and opened the till, she had the change in there to give me! Derr! Anyway, I just kept stumm, and she'd cheered up a bit by the time the transaction was over! I think I was the third person to give her a twenty or something. At the end of the day, they want to sell things though, don't they?
It reminds me of another Charity shop I was in last year, and I heard someone ask to try something in the window display, and the manageress said could she come back in a couple of days, because she'd only just done that display! I couldn't believe it! Why have a display if you don't want people to buy the things in it? I should have said something, really, but I didn't. I felt sorry for the person, though.

Anyway, today I got a nice amber glass plate, divided into three, which matches another that I got from another charity shop a few weeks ago, £1.49. I like amber glass.
Then, after I'd paid for that with the right money, I saw this dinky little shoulder bag, quite small, round with a hard shell case made of multicoloured interlocking strips, just right and light enough to wear when you're popping out somewhere for a meal or drink and don't need to take your usual day-bag, if you know what I mean! It's almost an ornament! That was the £2.99 thing that Mrs. Grump grumped about! Perhaps she didn't want to get sent to the bank to get more change.........maybe she's a bit nervous of doing that. Poor Mrs. Grump!

God! I do ramble on! :rotfl:

Birdie85

Pyxis, I hate the £20 grumbles, it's not like it's an unusual note nowadays and it's pretty much all you get out of ATMs. We got a grumpy bus driver moaning about us giving him a £20 for 2 bus tickets (which came to £11 so all we needed was £9 change, hardly like asking for change for a £50 note!). I hate the charity shop 'come back in a few days' requests too, I once saw a lovely dress in the window and asked for it but it was part of a display that they didn't want to ruin so I couldn't have it...I think they sometimes forget what the point of their shop is! OH still gets grumpy about that 4 years later!

Code, I'd report the farm too. Did you see that photo that was doing the rounds of a snowy street and the weed farm house clearly obvious as it was the only roof without snow?! :rotfl:

codemonkey

Hmmm just walked past it and it looks and smells normal. Not sure now.

I do think some charity shops lose sight of what they are and start acting like they're doing you a favour. There's one near work which I don't use because they were rude to me once. So the nice cancer research shop a few doors from that one get all my old stuff.