Big Badger House (aka Noisy Lodger) HE'S GONE!

poppysarah

omg. that's pretty mad.
Do you live near the vets?

Badger_Lady

poppysarah wrote: »

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Do you live near the vets?

Yeah - it's no more than five minutes' walk away. I still thought it was funny though - he hates it there and the waiting room was full of dogs! :rotfl:

poppysarah

hehehe oh wow that's a mad cat then!

harryhound

Are you sure he was not trying to contact his drug dealer?

My late mother in her "middle" age had a minor nicotine habit and a rescue puppy - he had just turned up on her door step starving. Well he was part Labrador part foxy terrier and he grew up to be very "fly".

Mum used to take him with her to the local tobacconist, perhaps in recognition of a regular customer; the staff got into the habit of slipping him a chocolate drop.

Before long they had another regular "customer", who would wait outside and seeing a human going into the shop, he would nip in on their heels.
Then he would sit in the middle of the shop and bark.
Being a partially trained dog we was prepared to be ordered home after collecting just one chocolate drop - fortified for his other interest in life - "lady" dogs.

Badger_Lady

harryhound wrote: »

Are you sure he was not trying to contact his drug dealer?

That's what my Dad said! :rotfl:

Thing is, it's me who gives him his morphone twice a day - the vet only sells it to us. But maybe his hips were hurting and he thought, "hmm, last time I went there they made me feel better"...

Badger_Lady

Hey guys, hope you're well!

ClumsyLodger and I have made friends properly now - we went out for the Wetherspoons Beer Festival last weekend with her boyfriend and another mate... and last week she came to see my play.

Incidentally, we performed for the Glamorgan Drama League festival over the weekend - our play won Best Play and I won Best Individual Performer! I'm all inspired now, and might write a one-act play based on the lodgers

essexgal

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Incidentally, we performed for the Glamorgan Drama League festival over the weekend - our play won Best Play and I won Best Individual Performer! I'm all inspired now, and might write a one-act play based on the lodgers

Yay - way to go Badger :beer:

oh, and a one-act play might not be long enough - who votes for a whole series......:D


essexgal

aliasojo

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Hey guys, hope you're well!

ClumsyLodger and I have made friends properly now - we went out for the Wetherspoons Beer Festival last weekend with her boyfriend and another mate... and last week she came to see my play.

Incidentally, we performed for the Glamorgan Drama League festival over the weekend - our play won Best Play and I won Best Individual Performer! I'm all inspired now, and might write a one-act play based on the lodgers

Oh my! I know a famous person.

*heads for the 'do you know a famous person* thread.

Well done you.

Badger_Lady

OK folks, new problem, not strictly lodger-related:

My house is built on a hill, so the houses that back onto us, as well as being much smaller, are also lower down. We all have very small gardens so the houses are pretty close together (about 30-40 feet).

Well the old dear who lived behind us passed away before Christmas and whoever now owns it has decided to do some major refurbishment work, including adding a large extension on the back. As part of this, they've ripped down the fence between our gardens, leaving direct visual between my kitchen and their new bedroom... not a problem, as long as they put a new fence back up again!

The workers seem really poor - they only turn up for a few hours a day and visitors have commented on their techniques throughout the building work, such as "well I imagine they're going to render that wall, but it would be nice to think they'd get the breeze blocks roughly straight first". In other words, I won't be asking them to do any of my work for me.

Now, my dressing room is on the middle floor at the back, so it's level with the old dear's roof. As long as I step back from the window (no, I don't have curtains), then no-one working on the extension can see up. However, last week, I was getting dressed as usual when I saw something in the corner of my eye - one of the workers had pulled himself up onto the roof and was sitting in direct eyeline staring into my window! Well, I was only wearing a thong at the time, so I dived through the wardrobe into Narnia and finished getting dressed from there.

Since then, most mornings when I walk to work the same chap is hovering by / in his white van parked round the corner. He's started pointedly saying "good morning" as I walk past, even if I'm obviously texting on my phone and crossing to the other side of the road. This morning he said, "do you work at [can't remember what name he said]?" I replied "no" and he pushed the point... to my paranoid mind he was trying to make me reveal where I do work.

Eep! Am I entirely overreacting or is this creepy??

Miss_Imaginative

Personally, Badger, I find it very creepy, so it's not just you. That's just really... seedy. *shudders* Urgh!

I'm not entirely sure what you can do about it, unless you complain to the building company? I would say chat about it to the new neighbours, but it would put them in an awkward position with their builders.

Hopefully somebody who knows how to deal with this will be along in a bit, but I just couldn't read and run!

Miss_I