Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Here you go 
Scotland forum
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowForum-g186485-i107-Scotland.html

Haven't watched this 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qlmnr/episodes/guide
This could be the same, haven't watched it either 
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-most-beautiful-road

Loads of YouTube videos.

So that's you sorted for the foreseeable 😁

Dustyevsky

wort said:
Some strange neighbours you lot have. Talking of which mine pressure washed his drive, which in turn sand blasted all over my garden and dgsons car 😱. So cleaning and painting and quietly fuming were done.

I'm afraid that's fairly typical behaviour nowadays. Not blatant 'couldn't care less,' just not thinking through consequences. I don't expect any neighbours wished us ill when they opposed changes we were entitled to make to our property; they just thought about what they wanted. The result was a hold-up that gained them nothing, but cost us roughly £4k when our contractor revised his bill. Now, one is being extra pleasant, possibly because it's hoped we'll reinstate privileges enjoyed before, but that won't happen. Like you, we don't like confrontation, and we live by basically Christian principles, but that doesn't mean we're everyone's doormat. There should be consequences for choices made.

Last week, when we were chatting, this person said, “Oh, do you hear that? The horses have heard me, and they're slamming the lid of their feeder!”

I replied, “Yes, they often do that at 3 o'clock in the morning too!” 

My remark went straight into the ether, without touching a single brain cell. This person is so wrapped-up in her own life, she wouldn't consider a horse feeder banging at all hours close to someone's house an inconvenience. 

twopenny said:

As for neighbours mine stay in the house with the blinds closed in case anyone sees their business. 5 o'clock start this morning.

Ah, that's ours on the other side.  Like GB's neighbours they belong to a sort of cult which the Dad has invented, in which the rest of the world is out to get them.  The kids never went to school, and now everyone's grown-up, they're all on benefits, except the eldest child, who escaped at 16 or 17, never to return. I'm not joking when I say they all look like zombies, but then people do, if they hide indoors for weeks on end with no sunlight. They're brilliant near neighbours, because we don't hear them, and we only see them when it's rubbish & recycling time. And if you think we're callous, allowing this sort of thing to go on, many years ago we approached our local MP (now a big headnob for the Nasty Party) and social services. The MP refused to see us and social services were polite, but dismissive, saying it was “all in hand.”

Gosh I've written so much and not even covered the weekend!   

Mrs D and I did something useful on Saturday, but I forget what now. On Sunday, we moved a van load of DD2's belongings over to her new house, and somehow became employed as skirting rubber-downers for the rest of the day.  They've done wonders, eliminating bumpy walls and swirly ceilings, but the pressure was on, with carpet man person due tomorrow!  

OT: Yesterday, with rain imminent, Mrs D cleared and disinfected the chicken shed, while I attempted to give the posh gates some winter protection, and also Creocote the outside of the poultry shed. The latter ambition was only partially realised when dark fell, but I noticed the wind had gone around to the west and there were hints of a mackerel sky....

Sure enough, when I rose to inspect the plumbing at around 05.00 there was steady rain. On waking properly at 07.30....blue sky! Currently, it looks s if we shall have showers, but nothing spectacular.