The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

I am now picturing you crawling around on hands and knees using your head to dust the floor...sorry

You guessed........ my secret is out............:(

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Doozer, I saw on another post that you have had a stressful time. Hope all is OK.

"This week, so far, my kitchen ceiling collapsed, my son dented my car and my house and car keys were stolen from my husband's car along with evidence of where we live. This afternoon I had to return from London, change my door locks, have hidden my expensive car hoping the perpetrators don't come looking for it before I can get the keys reset at the dealership tomorrow."

Gah! It does sound stressful, although I can't think of anybody more capable of dealing with it all than DG.

PasturesNew

I have dog poop.
It looks fairly fresh and two deposits.
It's in the front garden.

I need to find/buy a cheap battery operated motion pir door chime to sit on the window sill, so I can pop it there and it'll go "bing bong" when anybody/anything walks past my front window....

Cheeky farquers.... irresponsible dog walkers. Either the walker is walking their dog down the path to my garden to let it poop, or they're walking past and the dog scoots my side of the wall and they continue in parallel to it on the road, then the dog poops and runs back along the path, round the wall and catches their owner up.

If I can get a "bing bong" I can fly out there and give it a large dose of "OI!"

Photo shows layout: red circle shows poop "behind" the wall.
My house the end one.
Street is where the pavement is.
https://s18.postimg.org/iurp2auqh/Poop.jpg

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have dog poop.
It looks fairly fresh and two deposits.
It's in the front garden.

I need to find/buy a cheap battery operated motion pir door chime to sit on the window sill, so I can pop it there and it'll go "bing bong" when anybody/anything walks past my front window....

Cheeky farquers.... irresponsible dog walkers. Either the walker is walking their dog down the path to my garden to let it poop, or they're walking past and the dog scoots my side of the wall and they continue in parallel to it on the road, then the dog poops and runs back along the path, round the wall and catches their owner up.

If I can get a "bing bong" I can fly out there and give it a large dose of "OI!"

Photo shows layout: red circle shows poop "behind" the wall.
My house the end one.
Street is where the pavement is.
https://s18.postimg.org/iurp2auqh/Poop.jpg

Very inconsiderate owner not to call their dog away.

Can't help thinking that the higher those bushes grow, the more lack of natural light there will be to the front rooms of your house. I would be inclined to keep them well trimmed.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I would be inclined to keep them well trimmed.

Firstly, that's the kitchen window, so I'm not in there. It's complex, that was my first thought .... and the very first thing I did was cut them right back to just under the wall level - but then the big winds came, so I wondered if growing them would help to filter out some of the wind (still undecided). It doesn't grow much/fast.... I probably have to trim it by 8" a year, which is done April/May when it's warm enough to feel like being out there for 20 minutes.

The whole row in the photo is four houses, so I've only got that one (end) window. There are two houses with doors at the ends, and two houses with doors in the middle. That is a terrace of four. If you see the first house, you see the door and it has one bay. Beyond that is a "peaked porch" - that's two front doors. My front door is round the far end/corner and can't be seen in the photo.

The only "public space" is that footpath/road going past. Once you step off the footpath to any of the houses and the driveway you see starting in the photo, it's all "private land" individually owned. The path behind the wall and in front of the houses is owned freehold by each of the houses, with my right to walk over it to reach my house. It's not a public right of way at all, nor a public path. The public footpath is outside of the walled area.

The house is also lower than the road/public path, so they afford some privacy from the "eyes of people who walk down streets idly staring into every window they pass as there's nothing better to look at". I keep it trimmed to that height, so they'd have to go out of their way to "peer in" which people aren't intending to do.

Since then there are "naughty children" to consider - and keeping them higher will dissuade kids from climbing onto the wall and running along the wall and into and around the front garden to get on/off the wall and chase each other.... so I've kept them higher to prevent that. Also, when kids are playing in the street the other side of that wall, it means they're not gathering in a gaggle and standing out there peering in and throwing stones at my window (I've seen some of the boys from the new houses throwing stones to try to smash the windows of the offices opposite, so I know they're "that sort").

Over time I'll be "sorting out" that general area until it's "wanderproofed and playproofed"

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Can't help thinking that the higher those bushes grow, the more lack of natural light there will be to the upstairs front rooms of your house. I would be inclined to keep them well trimmed.

A slight tweak needed :rotfl:

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Over time I'll be "sorting out" that general area until it's "wanderproofed and playproofed"

Man traps or just landmines?
:rotfl:

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Man traps or just landmines?
:rotfl:

Exploding paint bombs .... so the perp's identified without question. If I could get exploding paint bombs I'd have to do nothing except wait .... sooner or later that kid'd go home and mum'd ask what they'd been doing and come round to bang on my door to moan ...... whereupon I could point out that their feral nasty was a nuisance and in order to have been paint bombed they'd have to have been somewhere they shouldn't and - based on my past observances of "this type" of sticky child .... doing things they shouldn't be doing. Then I could shut the door in her face.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Doozer, I saw on another post that you have had a stressful time. Hope all is OK.

That's kind, thank you. All is well. It wasn't my intention to complain, stuff happens, the measure of how bad things are is how much we allow it to affect us. I was probably more irritated by the OP essentially creating problems instead of solutions than the damage to things in my life . They're only things. The ceiling collapsing at 3am was an interesting thing to contend with when I was fast asleep. I thought a bomb had gone off, DH slept through it! My car is spending a few days in the dealer's compound just to be elsewhere for a bit and the missing key is being blocked. All should be well.

I went to Waitrose yesterday morning for a tea and croissant to take out. I didn't have my waitrose card for my free drink so explained why (on stolen keyring). The lady that served me was devasted for me. She then chased me out and gave me a bunch of roses and a cuddle! Lovely things happen all the time.

PasturesNew

It's been a free weekend on ancestry, which I didn't spot until late yesterday afternoon ... been through my lookup list, but the reality is that there's little new to discover.... it's just the same old records, which is OK if you've a whole new tree, or whole new person, but you do end up with a free weekend and nothing to look up.

From the lookup lists was Soldiers Effects and I did spot that my gt-uncle's death in WW1 was just a "Presumed dead", although I could probably work that one out as there was no burial.... he's just a buried pile of bones out there somewhere in a random field.

So, nothing new - no brick walls broken down at all.