Odd things your neighbours do?

Odd things your neighbours do?

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Timbuktu

1,953 posts

154 months

Tuesday 30th August 2016
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Alex_225 said:
Was out the front of my place today washing the cars and watched one of the neighbours over the road cutting back a bush.

Garden sheers or hedge cutters? No, he was dragging one of those old fashioned push along lawn,mowers over the hedge and just tearing chunks out of it, very odd.
Errrr.... firstly how the hell did he manage that (body builder?) and secondly was it even cutting anything?! Surely it would need some resistance to get the blades spinning?


HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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My neighbour moved his car 5 times over the course of yesterday to make sure that "his parking spot" was occupied by one of the three people who live in his house, my daughter then overheard him moaning to someone down the road about someones parking; bit rich!


Edited by HTP99 on Monday 5th September 17:44

HarryFlatters

4,203 posts

211 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Ours was digging his front garden at quarter to seven this morning.

He did come over to tell us that he's just off night shift, and isn't actually mental hehe

Blown2CV

28,698 posts

202 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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retired couple over the road have got themselves a wood burner, it would appear. It would also appear that we are downwind, in the prevailing direction. I can smell it even when we have no windows open, but I don't think we'll want to be shutting all our windows for a few weeks yet. They've been using it on and off even in July when it was hot weather. Now as it's dropped below 20deg the fking thing is on all the time, and as they are retired we are talking even during the day. I am working from home as i usually do on a friday (not on PH all the time honest) and it stinks. Sigh.

Caveat: it may be me being odd... i'd prefer not to have a house full of smoke though, esp in summer.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Blown2CV said:
retired couple over the road have got themselves a wood burner, it would appear. It would also appear that we are downwind, in the prevailing direction. I can smell it even when we have no windows open, but I don't think we'll want to be shutting all our windows for a few weeks yet. They've been using it on and off even in July when it was hot weather. Now as it's dropped below 20deg the fking thing is on all the time, and as they are retired we are talking even during the day. I am working from home as i usually do on a friday (not on PH all the time honest) and it stinks. Sigh.

Caveat: it may be me being odd... i'd prefer not to have a house full of smoke though, esp in summer.
If they're using it properly there shouldn't be a huge smell or any smoke?

thetapeworm

11,192 posts

238 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Probably putting coal on the wood burner or they have a multifuel and are burning it on that.

hairyben

8,516 posts

182 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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omgus said:
DaveGoddard said:
SiDon said:


For the last 10 nights
This is usually done for Asian weddings - I see a lot of houses done up like this in Birmingham - but not sure why it'd be left there for 10 days.
10 days, first ceremony to last ceremony if they wanted to go big. A couple of friends had 4 parties and a registry office do.

The brides sister got married the summer after and she just had to go bigger than her sister, that was excessive. hehe
yes

4 "main" ceremonies... they do make a big deal of it. Some Clients of mine had 5 marquees in their garden, I had to fit a 3 phase distribution panel to handle the specified catering/disco/lighting power requirements... they were like "whys it cost so much, its just a temporary electric supply right?"

Blown2CV

28,698 posts

202 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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bulldong said:
Blown2CV said:
retired couple over the road have got themselves a wood burner, it would appear. It would also appear that we are downwind, in the prevailing direction. I can smell it even when we have no windows open, but I don't think we'll want to be shutting all our windows for a few weeks yet. They've been using it on and off even in July when it was hot weather. Now as it's dropped below 20deg the fking thing is on all the time, and as they are retired we are talking even during the day. I am working from home as i usually do on a friday (not on PH all the time honest) and it stinks. Sigh.

Caveat: it may be me being odd... i'd prefer not to have a house full of smoke though, esp in summer.
If they're using it properly there shouldn't be a huge smell or any smoke?
not sure why they'd be using it at all in the Summer. I can only assume they are not using it properly!

Tomo1971

1,127 posts

156 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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My dad (RIP) used to moan all the time about the house/family across the road from him as they bought a caravan and parked it on their driveway as it spoilt the view.

"But Dad, we used to have a caravan here and you used to park it in exactly the same manner.". His response - "That was different".... HOW??

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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HTP99 said:
My neighbour moved his car 5 times over the course of yesterday to make sure that "his parking spot" was occupied by one of the three people who live in his house, my daughter then overheard him moaning to someone down the road about someones parking; bit rich!
Wife parked in "his spot" a few days ago, she kind of did it on purpose.

His girlfriend went out and the wifes car was parked up in a bad spot, half on the path due to the road being busy the night before so she saw an opportunity to park it in a safer spot off the path. As she was manoeuvring into "his spot" he came out with keys to his car to move it, he was not happy.

He didn't confront her but he shouted at her "that is my fking spot, there are other places you can park", "you lot are a pain with all your cars", err we have two and they have three, "all the neighbours moan about your parking", err don't think so, it's you that hog spaces by strategically parking and manoeuvring.

The wife ignored him and came indoors.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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HTP99 said:
Wife parked in "his spot" a few days ago, she kind of did it on purpose.

His girlfriend went out and the wifes car was parked up in a bad spot, half on the path due to the road being busy the night before so she saw an opportunity to park it in a safer spot off the path. As she was manoeuvring into "his spot" he came out with keys to his car to move it, he was not happy.

He didn't confront her but he shouted at her "that is my fking spot, there are other places you can park", "you lot are a pain with all your cars", err we have two and they have three, "all the neighbours moan about your parking", err don't think so, it's you that hog spaces by strategically parking and manoeuvring.

The wife ignored him and came indoors.
Park a manky leyland bus there laugh

V8Matthew

2,675 posts

165 months

Tuesday 6th September 2016
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thetapeworm said:
I may well have missed a memo on this but apparently there is a trend to install televisions in the garden now - two neighbours at the back of my rear garden have put up brackets in their gardens. One on their extension, the other right up the top of the garden on the fence. On a regular basis they run long cables out of their houses, mount the screens and sit watching TV in the garden. Often at volumes which mean I can't hear my TV inside the house if I have the patio doors open.

One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.



Edited by thetapeworm on Monday 15th August 19:39
Air rifle.

littleowl

779 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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Not me, but some friends who moved into a new house on a cul-de-sac....

As above. After a couple of days they posted cards through the letterboxes of the other houses on the close.

"Hello, we are Brad & Angelina[*] that have just moved into #10. We are having a barbecue at 2:00pm on Saturday. You are welcome to come, when we can say hello & introduce ourselves properly (sorry about the removal vans etc etc). Hope you can make it & look forward to meeting you. Best regards B&A" smile


Well most of the close turned up & the barbecue was a great success. New friends were made, but B&A were warned on the day by their new neighbours about the 'miserable old sod at #6'....

And a couple of days after the barbecue, a letter turned up from a solicitor:

"Dear Mrs & Mr B&A,"

"Please do not speak, contact, disturb or put anymore unsolicited mail through the letterbox of our client, Mr Grumpy of #6 The Close. Any further contact will be reported as harrassment and the necessary legal steps involving the police & courts will be taken, Yours Faithfully, Git & Tosser[*] Solicitors"

frown


[*] Not really.

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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I would sign Mr Grumpy up to every bit of junk mail that I could.
smile

littleowl

779 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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Tempting. But given the fact he felt angry enough to get solicitors involved for a friendly invite, he would probably get the police firearms unit round.

He didn't have to go. He could have said no thanks, He could have ignored it and done absolutely nothing. But no, he felt he had to spend £xx's on a solicitors letter for that.

What an utterly miserable tt frown

The Nur

9,168 posts

184 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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I can't help but be suspicious about people like that. Anybody that defensive makes me think they've got something to hide.

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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I cant believe that a solicitor would actually write a letter in response to that invite.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense advice.

littlebasher

3,767 posts

170 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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surveyor said:
I cant believe that a solicitor would actually write a letter in response to that invite.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense advice.
££££££

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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littlebasher said:
surveyor said:
I cant believe that a solicitor would actually write a letter in response to that invite.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense advice.
££££££
Not many £££££. Quite pathetic of whoever wrote the letter - more so than the twit of a neighbour.

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

9,460 posts

129 months

Tuesday 20th September 2016
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surveyor said:
Not many £££££. Quite pathetic of whoever wrote the letter - more so than the twit of a neighbour.
Perhaps it was another neighbour having a laugh sending a spoof letter