Odd things your neighbours do?
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Bloke up the road is currently, carefully washing and polishing a car he's had rotting on his drive for 5 years. It's a convertible, the roof is knackered and patched with carrier bags, the tyres are flat. He's carefully checked the oil levels, washed it by hand with a bucket and the smallest sponge he can possibly find and is now polishing it. Baffling.
SistersofPercy said:
Bloke up the road is currently, carefully washing and polishing a car he's had rotting on his drive for 5 years. It's a convertible, the roof is knackered and patched with carrier bags, the tyres are flat. He's carefully checked the oil levels, washed it by hand with a bucket and the smallest sponge he can possibly find and is now polishing it. Baffling.
He's got a potential buyer on the way ....maybe .
NuvolAscaRina said:
He's got a potential buyer on the way ....maybe .
Nah, he did the same last year from memory. Seems like it's an annual thing.There is another guy a few miles away who bought a stunning red mustang about 15 years ago, parked it in his front garden and it never moved again. I walk past it occasionally and could cry. Beautiful car, rotted away. Suspect thats where this guys car will end up.
Mines taken to gobbing a pile of goz on the public footpath in front of my half of the garden every morning for some reason,
seems to think it doesn't reflect on the type of person he is.
i suppose it will tread in his house as much as everyone elses.
dont know whats brought it on, not spoke to him for three years,
seems to think it doesn't reflect on the type of person he is.
i suppose it will tread in his house as much as everyone elses.
dont know whats brought it on, not spoke to him for three years,
A few years back, I extended the garden fence, which at that time ended at the top of the gardens, to go all the way up between the two houses.
I erected it on the border but with the concrete posts fully on my side.
So nice, concrete and fence panels construction.
The last two weeks, my neighbour has erected a fence on his side?
So now I'll remove mine, my wife says I could do with an extra inch or two.
I erected it on the border but with the concrete posts fully on my side.
So nice, concrete and fence panels construction.
The last two weeks, my neighbour has erected a fence on his side?
So now I'll remove mine, my wife says I could do with an extra inch or two.
jimmyjimjim said:
I've a cast iron double kitchen sink to go out next. It's boxed and will go out next to the trash to see if they'll just take it. If not, it gets smashed to s
t and goes out in pieces.
Mildly disappointingly, the trash service took it. I'm at a bit of a loss what to try to throw out next. There's a car tire that's a bit elderly....t and goes out in pieces.DRFC1879 said:
I've disposed of a double divan in a standard household wheelie bin. Stanley knife to open up the fabric then it's just a matter of putting a foot through some fairly flimsy bits of wood.
In my old apartment block we had some big communal wheelie bins and many a time some berk would dump a big piece of furniture or a bathroom suite in the bin area. I regularly used to smash these up and get them in the bins over a week or two. The hardest things to dispose of were sofa cushions which needed a bit of hacking up and a big leatherette office chair which took some breaking!
I had an uncle who worked as a binman and he used to boast of the time he and his colleagues threw a piano off the top of a block of flats as it was easier than getting it down the stairs.In my old apartment block we had some big communal wheelie bins and many a time some berk would dump a big piece of furniture or a bathroom suite in the bin area. I regularly used to smash these up and get them in the bins over a week or two. The hardest things to dispose of were sofa cushions which needed a bit of hacking up and a big leatherette office chair which took some breaking!
Fast and Spurious said:
Bluedot said:
Hashtaggggg said:
leigh1050 said:
Nobody put a dead body in a bin?
Does a pigeon count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVC3bXOWc88
A black cat from the local farm used to climb into my bin if I'd put the remains of a chicken in there. One night I went out, opened the bin lid and the cat jumped out at me. If there was enough rubbish in the bin for it to push up the lid from inside, it could get right into the bin and sit inside with the lid down eating and then climb out after.
Edited by Blakewater on Friday 4th June 23:48
jimmyjimjim said:
jimmyjimjim said:
I've a cast iron double kitchen sink to go out next. It's boxed and will go out next to the trash to see if they'll just take it. If not, it gets smashed to st and goes out in pieces.
Mildly disappointingly, the trash service took it. I'm at a bit of a loss what to try to throw out next. There's a car tire that's a bit elderly....t and goes out in pieces.At our local recycling centre the other week a guy was sitting by the electricals skip snipping off the cables from unwanted appliances - copper prices have recently gone through the roof. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be a council initiated policy.
CoolHands said:
70 fking quid in Harrow! If I remember correctly
Free in Sefton. They only come every 4 weeks. I don't collect my grass clippings. The lawn is so small, that it takes longer to get the mower out. I have some big shrubs though, so usually I'll prune one the day before. Last time I got a step ladder and stood inside the bin to make more space. king quid in Harrow! If I remember correctly Next door is an electrician. I looked in his green bin. To see if it needed to go out. (We share a driveway)
Full of copper wire.
Hashtaggggg said:
leigh1050 said:
Nobody put a dead body in a bin?
Does a pigeon count?My grown up kids still have PTSD about the lack of funerals for pets. Or just take the piss about how unsentimentally practical I am.
PH User said:
It's possible that those who pay for their green bin to be collected are getting it done for cheaper than those who are saying that theirs is collected for free.
Isn’t that the case for all o er the UK, it varies council to council, some it’s included in your council tax, others it isn’t, but they take it away to be turned into compost so get paid via the compost company for lorry loads of garden rubbish.Our garden bins are brown, green is recycling wheelie bin.
A council in a near by district has green bin with brown lid for garden rubbish, obviously couldn’t decide which colour was best suited.
mine have just spent what i assume to be a ton of money very very slightly widening their 1.7x car width driveway into a 1.9x car width driveway. He used to park on the road and she on the drive. Now they park next to each other so awkwardly that I can't see how it is convenient or even possible to easily get in and out of the cars, esp as they are both cracking on and not exactly spritely. I have no idea why he has decided he wants to park on the drive as he lives down the end of a cul de sac so gets no real traffic coming past, and no competition for 'his' space either.
Blown2CV said:
mine have just spent what i assume to be a ton of money very very slightly widening their 1.7x car width driveway into a 1.9x car width driveway. He used to park on the road and she on the drive. Now they park next to each other so awkwardly that I can't see how it is convenient or even possible to easily get in and out of the cars, esp as they are both cracking on and not exactly spritely. I have no idea why he has decided he wants to park on the drive as he lives down the end of a cul de sac so gets no real traffic coming past, and no competition for 'his' space either.
The exact opposite to many cases mentioned on here where people rather leave their drives empty and park on the street to stop others. People are strange!nonsequitur said:
Twice a week for me, but there is no one around to think I'm odd.
Twice a week for the front lawn - rear lawn is out of sight so slightly neglected and takes 4-5 times as long to mow in the first place!I think mowing twice a week has really helped thicken the grass up.
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