Odd things your neighbours do?
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Cliftonite said:
ElectricSoup said:
English is likely one of the most hybridised, mongrel languages on the planet. It has countless loan words from dozens of other languages. It is a very young language, compared to Welsh, which is the oldest living language in Europe.
Popty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
Popty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
Blown2CV said:
paua said:
ElectricSoup said:
English is likely one of the most hybridised, mongrel languages on the planet. It has countless loan words from dozens of other languages. It is a very young language, compared to Welsh, which is the oldest living language in Europe.
Popty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
Welsh, the oldest, really? I thought BasquePopty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
GetCarter said:
I find the odd thing about your neighbour is the car he drives! (or drove), - with metal like that in your bloodstream, how can one sink to the depths of a citreon berlingo? Wobbly, clattery, industrial, hard, makes me car sick again just thinking about it! Peanut Gallery said:
I find the odd thing about your neighbour is the car he drives! (or drove), - with metal like that in your bloodstream, how can one sink to the depths of a citreon berlingo? Wobbly, clattery, industrial, hard, makes me car sick again just thinking about it!
Ha. When he's down south he drives all his cars to work (in rotation, so they all get a run out), including the Rocket ...and this lot:
When he's up here he's mainly on his boat. (Though he has just bought a very early Lotus 7 which he's going to bring up)
Murray's partner in the Light Car Company was Chris Craft, one time F1, Le Mans and saloon car racer. My younger son was a good mate of his son while at school and spent a lot of time getting up to no good on the grounds of his home near Chigwell.
Now this might be one for the coincidences thread but Chris Craft's brother Ian was a consultant paediologist at the Royal Free hospital and supervised the birth of said same son, because of potential medical complications.
To add another layer of coincidence, my cousin quite separately knew Chris Craft, and they actually shared a particularly dotty Colombian au pair (not in that way!). My wife, being Venezuelan, was quite friendly with the girl.
Her crowning achievement was letting Craft's goat escape, finally catching it some way down the road. A passing Interflora van driver offered her, and the goat, a lift home. The final coincidence in this post is that for a short time two people were brought together who both had no idea what a goat could do within a very short time in the back of a florist's van.
I once saw a video of Chris Craft rolling a Mini end over end down Paddock Hill at Brands Hatch, but I have never been able to find it on YouTube.
Now this might be one for the coincidences thread but Chris Craft's brother Ian was a consultant paediologist at the Royal Free hospital and supervised the birth of said same son, because of potential medical complications.
To add another layer of coincidence, my cousin quite separately knew Chris Craft, and they actually shared a particularly dotty Colombian au pair (not in that way!). My wife, being Venezuelan, was quite friendly with the girl.
Her crowning achievement was letting Craft's goat escape, finally catching it some way down the road. A passing Interflora van driver offered her, and the goat, a lift home. The final coincidence in this post is that for a short time two people were brought together who both had no idea what a goat could do within a very short time in the back of a florist's van.
I once saw a video of Chris Craft rolling a Mini end over end down Paddock Hill at Brands Hatch, but I have never been able to find it on YouTube.
Just started small building works to our front garden/driveways.
Had the diggervman in and he has dug out the footings for all the walls etc so we have various trenches everywhere.
At the front of the house is a low, dry stone wall with plants in the top.
Last night one if the neighbours was building a wall in the trench, using no footings and no concrete - just stacking stones.
She is probably early 70’s and a bit loopy
Had the diggervman in and he has dug out the footings for all the walls etc so we have various trenches everywhere.
At the front of the house is a low, dry stone wall with plants in the top.
Last night one if the neighbours was building a wall in the trench, using no footings and no concrete - just stacking stones.
She is probably early 70’s and a bit loopy
Blakeatron said:
Last night one if the neighbours was building a wall in the trench, using no footings and no concrete - just stacking stones.
She is probably early 70’s and a bit loopy
An old neighbour on mine used to put cussions in the back of my stripped out 205. Suppose she thought it made it look more homely. Never found her in there thank god.She is probably early 70’s and a bit loopy
BMR said:
I never need to go up the other end of our street, but I see one of the neighbours up there is building a wall out the front. The title deeds say you can’t :/
A lot of people are thick and ignorant and don't care Some are just generally ignorant of restrictions
I always looked for a house with nice clear defined boundaries and all have had walls.
that all dates back to an episode of Brookside where I think Billy Corkhill went slightly mad and churned up the neighbours gardens
Must find that clip.
I have seen in modern build estates people whose garden lawns have been damaged . The damage being done by inconsiderate neighbours /visitors who have parked or driven over them.
techiedave said:
BMR said:
I never need to go up the other end of our street, but I see one of the neighbours up there is building a wall out the front. The title deeds say you can’t :/
A lot of people are thick and ignorant and don't care Some are just generally ignorant of restrictions
I always looked for a house with nice clear defined boundaries and all have had walls.
that all dates back to an episode of Brookside where I think Billy Corkhill went slightly mad and churned up the neighbours gardens
Must find that clip.
I have seen in modern build estates people whose garden lawns have been damaged . The damage being done by inconsiderate neighbours /visitors who have parked or driven over them.
Basically the deeds are for the purpose of the developer when they're selling their houses, that's why there's strange ones in there about no caravans, no boats etc. They don't want anything spoiling the views while they sell the houses they've just built.
It's down to a court to decide 20+ years later whether those deeds are still relevant, the developer doesn't give two figs, he got his money years ago.
We spent a grand getting a solicitors letter sent threatening this and that, trying to call next doors bluff but the fence remains.
We actually ended up going to a council arranged mediation session and he agreed to lower the fence a little as a sign of compromise.
Mines just had one of those apple crumble resin drives and some pretend grass
Looks ok to be fair, they’ve done a good job
They didn’t do it where his shed was and that corner is still flagged underneath the shed
Fast forward to this morning, big wooden shed gets taken down which is barely two years old and a much smaller plastic shed is being erected where the flags are
Which are now much more visible.
New shed looks like a toll booth or ice scream shack,
Why didn’t he do it when the whole garden was getting resin’ed?
Now he’s got nice resin drive up to some old flags then the new shed
Odd.
Looks ok to be fair, they’ve done a good job
They didn’t do it where his shed was and that corner is still flagged underneath the shed
Fast forward to this morning, big wooden shed gets taken down which is barely two years old and a much smaller plastic shed is being erected where the flags are
Which are now much more visible.
New shed looks like a toll booth or ice scream shack,
Why didn’t he do it when the whole garden was getting resin’ed?
Now he’s got nice resin drive up to some old flags then the new shed
Odd.
Blown2CV said:
Cliftonite said:
ElectricSoup said:
English is likely one of the most hybridised, mongrel languages on the planet. It has countless loan words from dozens of other languages. It is a very young language, compared to Welsh, which is the oldest living language in Europe.
Popty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
Popty ping is an urban myth.
Yours,
The Fun Police
http://www.visitwales.com/explore/traditions-histo...
ElectricSoup said:
Again, "popty ping" is an urban myth arising from a joke. Nobody uses it. It does translate as "the oven that goes ping" but that doesn't mean it is the correct or even colloquial term in Welsh. Just as nobody says "ping oven" in English. We say microwave. The Welsh say "Microdon".
http://www.visitwales.com/explore/traditions-histo...
My Welsh friends routinely call it the Popty Ping, although I suspect there's an element of piss taking involved.http://www.visitwales.com/explore/traditions-histo...
One of my neighbours moved in around 18 months ago (we all did, new build estate)
His back garden consisted of half patio and half grass with a nice wooden shed in the corner. Within a few months of moving in he had taken up the grass and the patio and it was basically a mess of mud and rubble for a year. He has recently put grass back where it was and slate down where the patio was as he has changed his mind what he wants to do with it so he has spend a considerable amount of money putting it back exactly as it was when he moved in. He has just bought a new shed as well
Just before putting everything back down, he took up one of his (leasehold) parking spaces and moved the garden fence so he now has more garden but only 1 parking space. I recently overheard him talking to his other neighbour saying he wish the builders had not given him a front garden but had out another parking space in there as "every house needs 2 parking spaces now"
His back garden consisted of half patio and half grass with a nice wooden shed in the corner. Within a few months of moving in he had taken up the grass and the patio and it was basically a mess of mud and rubble for a year. He has recently put grass back where it was and slate down where the patio was as he has changed his mind what he wants to do with it so he has spend a considerable amount of money putting it back exactly as it was when he moved in. He has just bought a new shed as well
Just before putting everything back down, he took up one of his (leasehold) parking spaces and moved the garden fence so he now has more garden but only 1 parking space. I recently overheard him talking to his other neighbour saying he wish the builders had not given him a front garden but had out another parking space in there as "every house needs 2 parking spaces now"
Happy Drinker said:
nonsequitur said:
TroubledSoul said:
nonsequitur said:
Bush would certainly be a contender in that situation. (First album only).
Machinehead from Sixteen Stone 
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