Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 34)

[glenrobbo]

Phew, thank goodness I made it back here.

I was trapped in Scrump's Scrump thread about Scrump and his Scrumpy doings.

I thought I was facing a Groundhog Day situation, but Iuckily I found that Scrump had left the tradesmen's entrance to his Scrungeon unlocked, and I managed to break free from the strong pull of his magnetic personality.

Although I can still feel the tugging sensation.

Anyway, red carpets: I can highly recommend them!

[Bobberoo99]

Why wold we want red carpets?? What's wrong with the Axminster ones in the residents lounge????

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

Why wold we want red carpets?? What's wrong with the Axminster ones in the residents lounge????

Axminster? Stow-on-the-Wold?

Where are we again?

[Bobberoo99]

DickyC said:

Bobberoo99 said:

Why wold we want red carpets?? What's wrong with the Axminster ones in the residents lounge????

Axminster? Stow-on-the-Wold?

Where are we again?

Upper Trivton, Trivborough old chap!!!

[StuntmanMike]

fatboy18 said:

ore like Cozy Powl

fking loved Cozy.

Amazing drummer, played Traditional grip as well.

And he was one of life’s good guys as well.

[Bobberoo99]

StuntmanMike said:

What a fking day I’ve had!!

I’ll explain in a bit.

AHEM!!!! Still waiting!!!!

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

Bobberoo99 said:

Why wold we want red carpets?? What's wrong with the Axminster ones in the residents lounge????

Axminster? Stow-on-the-Wold?

Where are we again?

I personally prefer the Axemaster wall hung tapestry in the 3rd bedroom in the East wing of Trivial Towers.

Fond memories of that room with Lady Trivington,

Edited by fatboy18 on Sunday 12th July 22:01

[StuntmanMike]

Right! Feel better now after something to eat and a shower.

Today I foolishly listened to my fking cretin of a neighbour.

I have two chimney’s. One at the back that’s disused. This is staged out as it’s coming down.

One at the front which is shared. Next door has his own chimney as well. These two aren’t staged out.

Neighbour is concerned about my front chimney pot, it has cracks and talks me into swapping them over.

At first he wanted the builder to do it. How much extra to stage out a chimney and do some work on it? Free? Do you think they would do me that favour?

Cos they fking wouldn’t, which I was trying to explain to fkwit.

I also said this is wiping me out and there’s no more money.

So I do it and what a of a job it fking was!

Remember where I’m working has no scaffolding, I’m stood on the ridge holding the chimney, carried two heavy fking pots across the roof. To top it all off the cracks were superficial and I had had it reseated and the chimney pointed ten fking years ago!

I have actually done a very good job!

But not as good as the professional builder who’s work I took a hammer to.

Oh, joy upon joy, I dropped a fking brick which smashed four fking tiles and made an 18 inch hole in the fking roof.

This is on top of having no ladder, I only have a roof ladder ( got a good story about that. ). It won’t reach the first floor of the scaffolding. So every time I went up and down I had to climb.

So after a day of that I’m fked.

Then I finish work on the chimney, new pot which was bigger and I ended up rebuilding the entire top of the chimney.

During all this my hero neighbour has fked off fking out with his wife.

No fking bd help there then.

I fix the wire bracket for the Aerial but it’s not long enough.

fkwit is home. I ask if I can remove the aerial on his second chimney. This aerial is not used and a cause of annoyance to him, birds perch on it and st all over his solar panels.

I wanted the aerial for its bracket you see.

He says no!

So I head into the Stoke-On-Trent area to buy some wire rope.

Four shops later, I had to cris cross the city and the fking A500 was shut. s.

I get him to see my fking neighbour on a lovely set of ladders taking the fking bd aerial down.

Yes, ladders, by now I’m so fked off I won’t even ask to use them.

Attaching the bracket I lost my temper and threw my 15 mm Snap On ratchet spanner into the distance and it’s gone for good. It was wk anyway.

Anyway I finish up, then the wife starts.

Why did you do it?

Why did you listen to him?

Why are you discussing building work with him and carrying it out?

I’m the one you should have been talking to!

And she’s 100% right.

I also was pissed off the entire job so got into angry work mode, this entails doing a days work without a single drink or bite to eat.

So when I had finished I was absolutely done in.

Thing is I don’t do a manual labour job. Climbing the scaffolding all day the spending several hours stood on the ridge of a roof at nearly fking fifty is not funny.

I have told him that’s the last time I ever go fking about up there.

My wife just thinks I’m dumb. And you know what? She’s right.

Edited by StuntmanMike on Sunday 12th July 22:18

Edited by StuntmanMike on Sunday 12th July 22:19

[glenrobbo]

Bobberoo99 said:

Why wold we want red carpets?? What's wrong with the Axminster ones in the residents lounge????

Because I have found that I am prone to knocking over large glasses of Tempranillo, and with a red carpet, it doesn't show so much as it does with a Stow-on-the-Wold hand-knotted rag rug.

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 12th July 23:23

[StuntmanMike]

To clarify he is a good neighbour, meticulous at looking after his property.

No trouble at all.

He just is like me mum, fking unintentionally fking fking hard work.

[StuntmanMike]

Oh and just checked the weather.

Pissing it down all day. So I now have an exposed ( massive hole where the pot and top should be) chimney which runs tight to the kitchen ceiling and a new footbsized hole in the roof.

[StuntmanMike]

Anyway. Nite nite Trivialites.

I’m done in.

[Bobberoo99]

StuntmanMike i'm really sorry to hear all that. that's so far from funny it's not even in the same country!!!! The fact that he's caused all that and then said no, and then gone up there with a set of ladders would have been enough for anyone!!!!

[glenrobbo]

Stuntman Mike, thankyou for telling us about your day's memorable exploits. You deserve to get ever so slightly sozzled to partially obliterate the bad vibes we are sensing.

And your neighbour sounds like a narsle.

So there they're their!

Would you like Bobbers to give you a bare hug?

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 12th July 22:43

[fatboy18]

Oh mate, been there so many times with trying to appease people and the st backfires.
Drop a dog turd in a envelope and post it to your neighbour

[Magooagain]

Good morning everyone.

Poor Mike. It's tough at the top! (of a house)

[Bobberoo99]

Morning chaps
Hopefully it will be a short week of decorating for me, as I'd really like to get the back bedroom turned around in under three days freeing me up to get some stuff done at home!!! But first, breakfast and a cup of coffee!!!

[nonsequitur]

DickyC said:

StuntmanMike said:

nonsequitur said:

StuntmanMike said:

Great drums on that track. At a guess Roger Pope?

Nigel Olsson.

You are 100% correct. Don’t know why I said Roger Pope. Pope did a bit for him but Olsson was his guy.

Oh, come on. We could have kept that going all evening.

To keep it going, Ringo Starr is now 80.

[StuntmanMike]

Morning.

Overcast here but no rain yet.

It’s just started.

Just tidied the kitchen up ( couldn’t face it last night) took paracetamol ( aching all over ) and now eating breakfast.

This is my usual, cornflakes and latte.

Discovered last night that Amazon fire sticks don’t work without an aerial.

So connecting the coax to the indoor aerial amplifier is today’s job.

[Bobberoo99]

StuntmanMike said:

Morning.

Overcast here but no rain yet.

It’s just started.

Just tidied the kitchen up ( couldn’t face it last night) took paracetamol ( aching all over ) and now eating breakfast.

This is my usual, cornflakes and latte.

Discovered last night that Amazon fire sticks don’t work without an aerial.

So connecting the coax to the indoor aerial amplifier is today’s job.

That's interesting, I always thought they just worked over the internet!!!