Odd things your neighbours do?
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My Dad has a big St George flag hanging outside his semi-detached house and although he is an intelligent and proud Englishman he is also one of the most respected and easygoing men I know. Even as a child I recognised that my Dad always saw the best in everyone, whatever creed or colour and would not think twice about engaging anyone in friendly conversation. His politics have also always been very centrist.
I think in my Dad's case the older he gets the more curmudgeonly he gets. He lives on his own in his late 70s and I think he enjoys being a little bit mischievous and provocative and not unlike the Clint Eastwood character in Gran Torino he sees his home as his castle. There was a lot of talk in his area about banning flags outside houses a few years ago and to someone like my Dad that was like a red rag to a bull - it has been flying proudly ever since.
Things are not always as they seem; sometimes there is a reason for peoples belligerence!
I think in my Dad's case the older he gets the more curmudgeonly he gets. He lives on his own in his late 70s and I think he enjoys being a little bit mischievous and provocative and not unlike the Clint Eastwood character in Gran Torino he sees his home as his castle. There was a lot of talk in his area about banning flags outside houses a few years ago and to someone like my Dad that was like a red rag to a bull - it has been flying proudly ever since.
Things are not always as they seem; sometimes there is a reason for peoples belligerence!
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That's the cover photo at the moment on the 'Britain Furst' (Britain First parody) page on Facef**k:
https://www.facebook.com/BritiainFurst?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/BritiainFurst?fref=ts
nadger said:
knitware said:
Not quite a neighbour but the first house at the entrance to my old village Catcliffe, a northern ex-mining community between Rotherham and Sheffield.
I lived there a few years and a flag has been there all that time. I’m all for a bit of Pomp and Circumstance, but driving home and seeing this, ugh, chavtastic.
Was I being churlish, what does it say to you?
I've told you before. Stop taking pictures of my fI lived there a few years and a flag has been there all that time. I’m all for a bit of Pomp and Circumstance, but driving home and seeing this, ugh, chavtastic.
Was I being churlish, what does it say to you?
king house, or I'll set the staffer on you! Or the wife. Velour burns aren't a laughing matter!;-)
...knitware, I do believe you're nadgered.Dragging this back on to the subject for a minute.
There's an elderly chap down the road from me who is obsessed with his driveway, I've walked past his house a number of times at gone 11 at night, and he's out there on his hands and knees with a dustpan and brush.
Last week he had a bowl of water and a cloth and he was cleaning his rainwater down pipes. Normally not too strange, but in the middle of the night?
There's also another cat walker in the same road as my mum, but this one cat is on a lead, and leads the owner everywhere, you'll see them wandering halfway up peoples drives as that's where the cat wants to go.
There's an elderly chap down the road from me who is obsessed with his driveway, I've walked past his house a number of times at gone 11 at night, and he's out there on his hands and knees with a dustpan and brush.
Last week he had a bowl of water and a cloth and he was cleaning his rainwater down pipes. Normally not too strange, but in the middle of the night?
There's also another cat walker in the same road as my mum, but this one cat is on a lead, and leads the owner everywhere, you'll see them wandering halfway up peoples drives as that's where the cat wants to go.
Issi said:
Dragging this back on to the subject for a minute.
There's an elderly chap down the road from me who is obsessed with his driveway, I've walked past his house a number of times at gone 11 at night, and he's out there on his hands and knees with a dustpan and brush.
Last week he had a bowl of water and a cloth and he was cleaning his rainwater down pipes. Normally not too strange, but in the middle of the night?
There's also another cat walker in the same road as my mum, but this one cat is on a lead, and leads the owner everywhere, you'll see them wandering halfway up peoples drives as that's where the cat wants to go.
Perhaps the old chap is an old amphetamine head ,mind doing overtime in the still of the night,whizzing his tits off.There's an elderly chap down the road from me who is obsessed with his driveway, I've walked past his house a number of times at gone 11 at night, and he's out there on his hands and knees with a dustpan and brush.
Last week he had a bowl of water and a cloth and he was cleaning his rainwater down pipes. Normally not too strange, but in the middle of the night?
There's also another cat walker in the same road as my mum, but this one cat is on a lead, and leads the owner everywhere, you'll see them wandering halfway up peoples drives as that's where the cat wants to go.
Well our neighbours that I have never even seen have just brought round a bottle of Prosecco. That for me is odd as I'm not used to having such nice neighbours. Only moved here a few weeks ago so haven't had chance to introduce ourselves yet.
We did pop a card through their door earlier in the week.
Sadly the Mother in Law answered and didn't tell us they'd been until after they'd gone!!
I will invite them round for a drink on boxing day to say hello and thank you.
We did pop a card through their door earlier in the week.
Sadly the Mother in Law answered and didn't tell us they'd been until after they'd gone!!
I will invite them round for a drink on boxing day to say hello and thank you.
Every time you look out the front our neighbours on the one side are getting in or out of their car. Constant little trips all day, seemingly taking nothing and coming back with nothing.
In the time it takes me to wash the car (which I admit can be around 2 hours) they've come and gone at least 3 or 4 times.
The chap also sometimes arrives back and just sits in the car staring at the garage door for a good 5 minutes, then gets out and goes in. Very strange.
In the time it takes me to wash the car (which I admit can be around 2 hours) they've come and gone at least 3 or 4 times.
The chap also sometimes arrives back and just sits in the car staring at the garage door for a good 5 minutes, then gets out and goes in. Very strange.
CoolHands said:
Tim662 said:
The chap also sometimes arrives back and just sits in the car staring at the garage door for a good 5 minutes, then gets out and goes in.
Can't face the wife. We know what that's like 
Or maybe I'm weird?
MagneticMeerkat said:
I do this and I'm not married! The sitting in the car thing is done because a good song ALWAYS starts on the radio at the very end of the journey. If I'm in no hurry I'll sit and listen until it ends. Same for Radio 4, I have sat around in car parks waiting for programmes to finish. It's horrendous, during the actual driving bit there'll be an ad break, or the nine-thousandth repetition of Union J's latest. As soon as the wheels touch the driveway the DJ will switch to the Thompson Twins or something. Gah!!!
Or maybe I'm weird?
Nope, I do the same.Or maybe I'm weird?
Radio 4 is additive.
rambo19 said:
MagneticMeerkat said:
I do this and I'm not married! The sitting in the car thing is done because a good song ALWAYS starts on the radio at the very end of the journey. If I'm in no hurry I'll sit and listen until it ends. Same for Radio 4, I have sat around in car parks waiting for programmes to finish. It's horrendous, during the actual driving bit there'll be an ad break, or the nine-thousandth repetition of Union J's latest. As soon as the wheels touch the driveway the DJ will switch to the Thompson Twins or something. Gah!!!
Or maybe I'm weird?
Nope, I do the same.Or maybe I'm weird?
Radio 4 is additive.
rambo19 said:
MagneticMeerkat said:
I do this and I'm not married! The sitting in the car thing is done because a good song ALWAYS starts on the radio at the very end of the journey. If I'm in no hurry I'll sit and listen until it ends. Same for Radio 4, I have sat around in car parks waiting for programmes to finish. It's horrendous, during the actual driving bit there'll be an ad break, or the nine-thousandth repetition of Union J's latest. As soon as the wheels touch the driveway the DJ will switch to the Thompson Twins or something. Gah!!!
Or maybe I'm weird?
Nope, I do the same.Or maybe I'm weird?
Radio 4 is additive.
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