lodgers and cooking on the landing

monkey-fingers

travelodger said:

Section62 said:

travelodger said:

markin said:

travelodger said:

 

At 70 is it not time to sell up and buy a smaller house now and enjoy peace and quiet in your own home?

If they eat in their rooms its not like they are even good company.

Also Add to any agreement they are not to charge E-bike, Or Scooters in the house.

You may want to actually remove the power sockets so only the MW and fridge can be plugged in.

Also just spotted that the Socket may be to close to the sink, Is it RCD protected?

Markin, why do you assume my main goal must be to get "peace and quiet"? As it happens you could not be more wrong. I love having lodgers in my house and would be miserable and lonely if I were not able to interact with my housemates several times a day, as I do. It's the main reason I have lodgers, in fact. We don't sit down and eat meals together but we have many conversations, short and long, and lots of laughs. We are all good friends and do favours for each other literally on a daily basis. 

I find your assumptions about what kind of home life a woman must want, based solely on her age, truly offensive. 

To be fair to markin, you did say the below earlier in the thread. A "complete rethink" as "a disabled and decrepit old pensioner" might reasonably lead someone to wonder whether you yourself feel it is time for a change?

travelodger said:

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I need to have a complete re-think. Particularly as 25 years ago I was a young, fit woman who was trained (by a former employer) in the use of fire extinguishers and could race up the stairs if need be. I am now a disabled and decrepit old pensioner who gets to the top floor at the pace of a particularly lazy snail.

They are two completely different things! Disability prevents me climbing to the top floor. Why would anyone twist that into assuming that means I want to live on my own with no young lively, chatty lodgers for company?

Anyway, this is all sorted. The lodger who created the unsafe setup has moved out, the others have been suitably admonished and told that no similar unsafe situation will be tolerated, new fire extinguishers, fire blankets and smoke alarms have been fitted in prominent places, new house rules written, etc.

So there is no need for anyone to post sexist or age-ist comments about how I "ought" to be living at my age.

This sounds like an ideal fix and ending - everyone's happy.

I'd honestly suggest closing the thread. As I said a couple of pages back, these are sadly the kinds of threads that end up going down rabbit holes and as above, unnecessarily being mean to people.