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Gadget

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I have cheerful stuff to share for once.
Spawn3's best friend's (her boyfriend really) family took myself and her to see Santa at Drayton Manor yesterday. She had a lovely day even if we did get a bit wet. The Elves and Santa were great with them and the Santa there is very good and rather funny. The queues are a bit much for the younger ones though but just about do-able in our case.
Spawn2 had an e-mail from college telling her she's been awarded student of the year for her course so I'm even more proud now.
 

Glam

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I have cheerful stuff to share for once.
Spawn3's best friend's (her boyfriend really) family took myself and her to see Santa at Drayton Manor yesterday. She had a lovely day even if we did get a bit wet. The Elves and Santa were great with them and the Santa there is very good and rather funny. The queues are a bit much for the younger ones though but just about do-able in our case.
Spawn2 had an e-mail from college telling her she's been awarded student of the year for her course so I'm even more proud now.
:hug::hug: Bout time you had sumat nice happen xxx
 

staffordjas

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Had the munchies after opening my advent calendar.......so got to christmas eve early :D . Saved a telling off , as it was either attacking my advent calendar , attacking hubbys advent calendar (got one each from his works) or the xmas tree chocs.
 

staffordjas

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Went outside to check no-one was breaking into my neighbours house, as I could hear loud banging and even my patio windows were shaking....... then realised from the screams from the open window it was her son and his girlfriend .....another sort of frantic banging going on ! :roll:
 

BobClay

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You should get in a seismometer then you could measure their antics on the Richter Scale … :heyhey:
 
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staffordjas

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Play it back when the parents are in.... (please don't tell me that they are usually in!)
I know when his mum has come back from work as they go quiet....cut it a bit fine tonight though. Was hoping she was going to walk in mid-bang as I don't think she realises how bloody noisy they are when she isn't in! Not just noisy , my glasses in the cupboard , no-where near the adjoining wall , are clinking together!

Son's back next week for christmas , so will get him to get my new annoying music system set up ....:lol: (Also remind him of the time when he was younger , being worried the neighbours son was being murdered when he had his previous girlfriend. I blew sons little karaoke machine up then , trying to put them off with an old S Club 7 CD ....they obviously couldn't hear it above their frivolities :roll: )
 

staffordjas

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Just been to add a couple of cans to the recycling bin I put out earlier. Found my previously 3/4 full bin topped up with someone else's mostly unrecyclable rubbish :mad:
 

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Just been to add a couple of cans to the recycling bin I put out earlier. Found my previously 3/4 full bin topped up with someone else's mostly unrecyclable rubbish :mad:
Your neighbours are a bit crap really. If you know who's done it shove it through their letterbox. If you don't know get your lad to sort you with a CCTV camera when he's over for Crimbo.
 

staffordjas

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Don't mind someone putting in the proper stuff if they've got no room. But to put it under my caddy resulting in lid being raised as well,and wouldn't have been emptied even if it wasn't forbidden stuff in there , just ain't on! Once found car parts on top of my recycling ,when went to add a few things as the bin lorry was approaching :ohno:

Going to have to get up early now to check it again before it gets rejected !
 

staffordjas

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Your neighbours are a bit crap really. If you know who's done it shove it through their letterbox. If you don't know get your lad to sort you with a CCTV camera when he's over for Crimbo.
Just been back up and sussed out who's it is by the contents. Slung it in their (2 ) bins. Included tissues, food, hoover contents, cups, ornaments and a host of other forbidden stuff :angry: .
Brought ours back down now.Hubby can put it back up when he goes to work tomorrow now, and in the future, rather than it going up at night!
 
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BobClay

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I don't really understand what's going on with neighbours anymore.

I was mostly raised as a kid in Sheridan Street, up on Coton Fields, and yes, I know it sounds like a cliché, but the back door was on a Suffolk latch, there was no lock. There were bolts on the inside of the door for the night (for one must remember the Blue Pig, that haunted the Rec at night) but you would never expect that sort of neighbourly behaviour. Everybody knew everybody else and gossip was a line of communication that GCHQ would have been proud of.

It seems now that neighbours are to be treated as 'the enemy,' shit I'm almost ashamed I fitted that piranha tank in, (I only did it because a great white shark tank would have been mega-expensive.) :rolleyes:

Somewhere along the line we've lost the plot as far as neighbourly behaviour goes. (Runs out to buy more piranhas.) :hmm:

PS I don't mean to belittle what's happened to you … I think that's total wank. It's just sad now you've got to deal with it. And there's no escaping the 'aftertaste.'
 
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staffordjas

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I was mostly raised as a kid in Sheridan Street, up on Coton Fields, and yes, I know it sounds like a cliché, but the back door was on a Suffolk latch, there was no lock. There were bolts on the inside of the door for the night (for one must remember the Blue Pig, that haunted the Rec at night) but you would never expect that sort of neighbourly behaviour. Everybody knew everybody else and gossip was a line of communication that GCHQ would have been proud of.


My gran used to live in the 3 little cottages on Tixall Rd, first ones up from The Gate pub probably about that same time. I remember her never locking her doors. The neighbours cat used to visit at night by jumping on the kitchen window, then which wouldswivel round and catapult it inside. Anyone could have got in, especially with the front door being more or less on the pavement, but they didn't.

( I also remember playing on the Rec...)
 
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staffordjas

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Well....f'in fuming! Just been to check my bin after hubby put it back out earlier this morning. More bloody crap in, including bottles with contents in dripping into out into my bin, and broken bottles as well as other dirty containers. I wash my bin out every time its emptied , now got to watch all the bloody broken glass in it as well as it now stinking to high heaven . :grr: Contents back in the offenders bins ....easy to find who it is with the addresses on the parcel boxes inside!!!
 
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