The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

ivyleaf

Thinking of you, MMF and VJsmum xx

burtha Hope you're as ok as poss xx

spirit

monnagran wrote: »

Morning all. Thank you for your commiserations but it's on with the dance.

Yesterday got frittered away somehow so today I really must force my nose back to the grindstone . The book to be edited stares at me reproachfully from the kitchen table.

MMF007 and VJsmum I hope you find the situation with your respective Dads better than you feared, and safe journeys both of you.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

What doesn't kill you gives you a set of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a dark sense of humour.

De lurking to respond re your house sale Monna,


Almost exactly a year ago I was in the same position as you. I'd started looking at houses and had found one I wanted. This move was so I could be near my daughter/son in law who had just lost a baby. I thought I'd not get another buyer til the New Year with it being too near to Christmas.


In fact, I had a few 'proceedable' buyers come round. One of them offered and here I am. I completed on 6th April this year and DD is expecting a (healthy) baby this time, due in January.


So my message is, hang on in there, all is not lost.


Do you know if the buyer would still like yours but lost her buyer? Is there a chance the buyer could come back?

monnagran

Hi spirit. Thanks for your imput and I'm glad that things turned out well for you.

The big drawback here s that we have a substation in the front garden. To be honest, we forget about it. It is enclosed in stone walls to match the house, it isn't next to the house but on the other side of the garage, we can't see it from the house, we had it checked out before we bought the house and I would never have put my precious grandchildren in danger. However, my buyer suddenly got cold feet about it. Understandable, but I think her surveyor probably told her that she would have difficulty in selling the house on.

It will all be fine in the end.

karcher

Monna, small mercy I know, but at least it happened at a very early stage. My poor, elderly, Mother, after months of waiting and much expense, had the buyer pull out on the day of exchange with absolutely no explanation at all. She had everything packed and the movers booked for the day of completion the following week. She lost the place she was due to buy and spent another year surrounded by boxes...she never did discover why the buyer pulled out and lost money she could little afford to lose

IMO buying and selling in England is a farce and the system needs a massive overhaul. Not in relation to your sale falling through at such an early stage but for the likes of my Mother who lost a ridiculous amount of money she could ill afford to lose (hence why she was selling).

In other news I am pee'd off as I didn't notice a cut on my hand when I was turning my white 100% cotton bedding which was almost dry..it now has a couple of streaks of blood on it from my cut hand ...I was not going to wash it again as drying it is such a nightmare, but I'm aware the blood may become a permanent stain!

Any advice from you OS'ers for when it's next washed will be very much appreciated

Thanks in advance and I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing, happy weekend xxx

nursemaggie

I would wash it again Karcher unless you don't like it.

The noisy neighbours continue to get worse. They have about 1000 kids all with permanent clogs. Monna is likely to hear their whispers. The world and his wife visit them every night, Someone uses the floor as a drum kit.

DS tried to bang on the ceiling last night with a broom. It made not a sound. We do not think they would hear us if we knocked on their door. I cannot get through to the housing association. Neither of us has had four hours sleep in the last three nights. If they stop banging about it is all stamps rather than walking and shouts rather than speaking. They do not appear to have music or a TV, perhaps the kids would shut for a bit if they had a TV.

They eventually went to bed the first night but we don't think they have been since. If they stop for a second the baby, who appears to be very young only a couple of weeks old, goes WAH WAH for half an hour or more before they bother to pick it up.

Either DS will have a serious accident through lack of sleep or we will go mad from the noise before we can get out of here! Sorry about the rant, if only I could get to speak to someone.

I think the last few days has been noisier than all the antisocial noise I have heard in my life. DS says they are the world champion professional anti social neighbours.

karcher

nursemaggie wrote: »

I would wash it again Karcher unless you don't like it.

The noisy neighbours continue to get worse. They have about 1000 kids all with permanent clogs. Monna is likely to hear their whispers. The world and his wife visit them every night, Someone uses the floor as a drum kit.

DS tried to bang on the ceiling last night with a broom. It made not a sound. We do not think they would hear us if we knocked on their door. I cannot get through to the housing association. Neither of us has had four hours sleep in the last three nights. If they stop banging about it is all stamps rather than walking and shouts rather than speaking. They do not appear to have music or a TV, perhaps the kids would shut for a bit if they had a TV.

They eventually went to bed the first night but we don't think they have been since. If they stop for a second the baby, who appears to be very young only a couple of weeks old, goes WAH WAH for half an hour or more before they bother to pick it up.

Either DS will have a serious accident through lack of sleep or we will go mad from the noise before we can get out of here! Sorry about the rant, if only I could get to speak to someone.

I think the last few days has been noisier than all the antisocial noise I have heard in my life. DS says they are the world champion professional anti social neighbours.

It's my favourite set and the most expensive sheets I've ever bought. Bought in a sale many years ago and a huge treat.
I'll wash them again tomorrow.

Sympathy re the noisy neighbours. I do feel your pain as I have it daily but there is nothing I can do about it.

Right now I have a pair of noise cancelling head phones on with the radio on. Not ideal as I am very noise sensitive and claustrophobic but it is better than listening to the neighbours.

I always sleep with ear plugs in now but I'm still woken regularly and as I find it hard sleeping I see about 19 hours of every day....it's taking it's toll it really is.

Isn't life great?

Floss

NM call your council's noise team - usually in Environmental Health. They may have an out of hours team that can come & witness it.

nursemaggie

If mine were just normal noises of moving about but they don't walk the stamp like toddlers having a temper tantrum. It is perfectly possible unless you have on, clogs, stiletto heels, are tap dancing not to make a sound when walking. I learned it when I did my pre-nurse training and woe betide any nurse who made any noise while walking anywhere in the hospital in those days. It only takes a couple of hours to learn and you never make a noise when walking again.

What I can't understand is how they could get a thousand kids into a tiny two bedroom flat.

I can hear them walk across the the floor with loud rock music blaring out of my headphones.

I think yours has been going on so long I think you ought to have a search for a noise abatement charity. I am sure someone can do something.

nursemaggie

Floss you have to spend two or three months recording every sound before they will come. By recording I mean keeping a diary. I would not be sleeping for doing that because they never stop for more than a few seconds. I cannot even get them to answer the phone.

karcher

Floss wrote: »

NM call your council's noise team - usually in Environmental Health. They may have an out of hours team that can come & witness it.

Floss, in theory a great idea but no easy feat for NM!

My neighbours make noise during supposed respectable hours so aren't touchable and the noise they make at night is random. So it's hard to convince others they make my life a misery. On the very rare occasion I have people visit, you could hear a pin drop as the neighbours know and are keeping quiet!


In theory a great idea but in reality it would take months of recording before anything was done. xx