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tek-monkey

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staffordjas said:
I shall try to remember your post if the little shits living next door scatter all the rubbish out of the bin and skip over the garden again! Spent hours tidying the garden up during the day so that it looked nice for the estate agent this weekend, then drove around later to catch them sprinting off when I pulled up and a right bloody mess :grr:

I aint a pushover like my late parents though, I have a short fuse ..... :angry: (And hubby won't always be there to diffuse the situation ! )

No wonder some kids are so bloody naughty these days. With parents thinking that sort of behaviour is amusing with a "boys will be boys..." :ohno:
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Send me their address and I'll go shit on their doorstep, cos it's all a larf innit!

Actually, thinking about it, how much to get the tip guy to empty it over their fence rather than taking it away?
 
staffordjas

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My nicely packed skip , to maximise the amount of stuff we could fit in, had been rummaged through when we arrived this morning. So had to get a rake and start pushing things around to fill in the big gaps :mad: (Probably find it's all blown back out again tonight with storm Brian ...)

Hubby took a hammer to the falling down shed, and I encountered a friendly little frog whilst picking up the wood. Felt quite guilty having deprived him of his home under the shed floor :hmm: Found lots of bones under there as well :o

After finding some little gits had been around the back (obviously a regular occurance! ) found a use for the bike lock I never ever used..... fits nicely on the gate. Just haven't got to lose the one key to the lock that I possess...
 
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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We're having a 'use it up' weekend - eating all the forgotten food in the back of the cupboards...

So far we've eaten:

Half a packet of old Smash,
some out of date crisps,
2 sat on Cadburys Flakes,
all the (slightly) squishy loose vege in the fridge,
half a bottle of gin (only just recovered)
4 limes (made the gin bearable)
half a bottle of cheapo peach schnapps (*shudder* - a valiant effort made by the OH) - left over from new year!
half a pack of wine gums
And to finish off a piece of cake my mum gave we a week ago (no mould yet - I checked)

I'm excited to see what Sunday brings....
 
John Marwood

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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
We're having a 'use it up' weekend - eating all the forgotten food in the back of the cupboards...

So far we've eaten:

Half a packet of old Smash,
some out of date crisps,
2 sat on Cadburys Flakes,
all the (slightly) squishy loose vege in the fridge,
half a bottle of gin (only just recovered)
4 limes (made the gin bearable)
half a bottle of cheapo peach schnapps (*shudder* - a valiant effort made by the OH) - left over from new year!
half a pack of wine gums
And to finish off a piece of cake my mum gave we a week ago (no mould yet - I checked)

I'm excited to see what Sunday brings....
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Cue

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staffordjas said:
I shall try to remember your post if the little shits living next door scatter all the rubbish out of the bin and skip over the garden again! Spent hours tidying the garden up during the day so that it looked nice for the estate agent this weekend, then drove around later to catch them sprinting off when I pulled up and a right bloody mess :grr:

I aint a pushover like my late parents though, I have a short fuse ..... :angry: (And hubby won't always be there to diffuse the situation ! )

No wonder some kids are so bloody naughty these days. With parents thinking that sort of behaviour is amusing with a "boys will be boys..." :ohno:
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Sometimes the parents are complicit to it. There’s some real little shits around these days.
 
Cue

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Built our Nabru corner sofa on Friday. Leg aches yesterday, today my back feels like death and breathing deeply hurts.

Think I need to make some lifestyles changes, this shouldn’t be happening in my 20s
 
Gadget

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I was going to get things done today.......
IMG_20170513_144829.jpg I don't seem to have the right permission lol
 
staffordjas

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After clearing mountains of stuff whilst clearing out our parents house (and still not finished) , decided no-way am I leaving son to sort our piles of junk out in the future!
Got rid of my old garden furniture and parasol after 21 years , as well as lots of junk out of the shed . Also decided to have a go at the loft this morning, aiming to get everything out......hubby ,who did the climbing up there to sling it all down , failed to get rid of the old frame tent (which my parents gave us years ago). Wondering what else is still lurking up there now, that he is reluctant to part with :roll:

Wondering why on earth we put a brand new unopened duvet up in the loft. Hubbys "You could wash that to get rid of the loft smell" soon got a firm "NO!"

After walking around to my parents skip with our old black refuse bin after it sitting in our back garden all these years (no-way was the slug ridden thing going into the car!) went shopping in Aldi to find they are now selling 'Black Storage Bins' which are exactly the same as I've finally slung. :roll:
 
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Lucy

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Doing similar myself. We found 24 pillow cases; some of which my sister was sure were around when she was little (she's 51) so they've survived a house move too. Then there were the 20 sets of cutlery and 14 tins of tuna. It's amazing how much stuff can be horded...
 
John Marwood

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Lucy said:
Doing similar myself. We found 24 pillow cases; some of which my sister was sure were around when she was little (she's 51) so they've survived a house move too. Then there were the 20 sets of cutlery and 14 tins of tuna. It's amazing how much stuff can be horded...
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Cutlery includes knives and ice skates, but not spoons and forks, is one of my best chat up lines
 
BobClay

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I should point out here with regard to cutlery, I have an old table knife inherited from my parents, wonderfully marked as: 'Sheffield stainless steel England.' (And the italics are actually imprinted on the knife.) It has to be 60 years old at least, has a well worn blade, but not from my usage, it's lain in the cutlery draw for decades. Yet it is still shiny without a trace of rust.
Not so the modern 'stainless steel' implements I have in my kitchen, which seem prone to the rust god. Pretty sure they're not Sheffield Stainless Steel.
 
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