Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Spirit_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

It never rains....

have just had to order some graffiti removing stuff, owing to artwork appearing on the house...

That is awful lJ. Is this a one off or have other proprerties nearby suffered?

silvercar

There is a bridge linking our village to its town next door. Our village is reputedly smarter (=house price premium if little else). Petrol station on our side of the bridge has just been converted to an Asda click & collect and mini store. The town meanwhile has granted permission for the pub on its side of the bridge to be converted to a Sainsbury's small store. Much complaints about bridge traffic increasing as everyone tries to get to what they see as their store.

silvercar

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I definitely have a bad feeling about it all.

Woukd also give me a bad feeling. Hope they go away. I'd be tempted together hosepipe out and water the roses and accidentally splash near them. Or start taking photos of your roses and accidentally include them in the picture. Only if I was feeling brave or had company.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Woukd also give me a bad feeling. Hope they go away. I'd be tempted together hosepipe out and water the roses and accidentally splash near them. Or start taking photos of your roses and accidentally include them in the picture. Only if I was feeling brave or had company.

You definitely don't want to start a fight with them.

My mate used to rent a beautiful 2 bed flat down by the river in Wapping. He was paying a pittance for it.

The reason? The owners had decided to 'move on' some teenagers who were loitering outside the flat and said teens made their lives hell as a result.

My mate moved in and saw them outside when he and his OH were in the small outside space enjoying the evening sun. He said hi and gave them a beer and probably something off the barbie knowing him. They left him to enjoy the flat in peace. Never had a moment's bother with them.

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

Are they actually doing anything wrong (petty vandalism, drinking underage, smoking, littering, making excessive noise) or are they just hanging out?

Just wishing them away won't solve anything unfortunately and I would definitely counsel against starting an argument with them.

I've found if doing nothing illegal, just leaving them to it woks best, as they will find somewhere else eventually.

We live on the same road as a school, with flats (with open space) opposite, which never helps matters.

Purchase of the Romanian company went through on Friday, so on top of normal work/holiday, I'm going to be extremely busy the next few weeks. I have their management team until the end of October, so hopefully we'll be able to find a suitable director before then.

The company was part of Sony until 2008, then subject to an MBO, and there are several ex-Sony staff still there, so this should be easy enough. Still looking at about January/February to get everything fully integrated into the main company, though

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Wedvice from GP is to reduce the amount of fruit I eat and to eat more salt. One
to lower diabetes level the other to correct low sodium. Metabolically I am a mess.

Me too. And when one gets those kind of phone calls they sound stupefied.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

Nah, the even better this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RDixZjoc_jlmQ&params=OAI%253D&v=ixZjoc_jlmQ

Kisstory (not kiss tory as my phone has been trying to say :eek:) has been fab tonight. I must be getting old though

Edit: this next https://youtu.be/Q9hpeVwx1Ug

The first link doesn't work but the second, what a great tune! I've not heard that in a while. It brings to mind this which I think was out about the same time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOMD0fvQY4

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

Nah, the even better this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RDixZjoc_jlmQ&params=OAI%253D&v=ixZjoc_jlmQ

Kisstory (not kiss tory as my phone has been trying to say :eek:) has been fab tonight. I must be getting old though

Edit: this next https://youtu.be/Q9hpeVwx1Ug

The first link doesn't work but the second, what a great tune! I've not heard that in a while. It brings to mind this which I think was out about the same time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOMD0fvQY4

Altogether now:

Two months later she said come and get your son
Cause I don't want your baby to come tie me down
Because you are old
And I am young
Yes while I'm young yes I wanna have some fun

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

The first link doesn't work but the second, what a great tune! I've not heard that in a while. It brings to mind this which I think was out about the same time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOMD0fvQY4

Altogether now:

Two months later she said come and get your son
Cause I don't want your baby to come tie me down
Because you are old
And I am young
Yes while I'm young yes I wanna have some fun

Shoobedoowap shoobedoowap shhobedoowooooah swing!

Haven't heard that in forever either

lostinrates

I have. Kisstory on quite a bit each day while I do my physio stretches and / or um....yoga. Sometimes I do my yoga in more meditative background noise only, or switch to radio three. ( music tends to class a little with mmmms and aaahs and oms at the end of session) but sometimes I find when alone because my mind is not where it should be its an easy cop out to use music to keep other noise / disturbance at bay and keeps me from being too goal orientated.