What gets me is cars with about 32 doors on them, one item out of the car, door slam, next item out, door slam.
Are your neighbours in the circus?
The crime rate is actually very low in my neighbourhood. It probably helps that 3 of my neighbours are high ranking police officers. It also doesn't say a lot for the state of policing in this country...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My milk gets delivered between 12 midnight and 1 am - fortunately only twice a week but it took multiple phone calls and notes to get the delivery man to leave the (plastic) cartons behind the large plant pot to the left of my step and not leave them on my doorstep in the full glare of the morning sun. I think I am the only one in my street to get milk delivered but the good thing is that it is local milk. Or so they say. PS. I have no interesting neighbours (or not that I know of anyway)! Could be the start of a new thread here in the Potting Shed!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
What gets me is cars with about 32 doors on them, one item out of the car, door slam, next item out, door slam.
Are your neighbours in the circus?
The crime rate is actually very low in my neighbourhood. It probably helps that 3 of my neighbours are high ranking police officers. It also doesn't say a lot for the state of policing in this country...
Fortunately now, I have no neighbours for miles, the nearest about a mile and a half.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We didn't have adjacent neighbours in Belgium. The nearest were the riding school and arable farmers up and over a bit. Here we have a high ranking gendarme and his family with 3 horses and a dog who fascinates our pair. The next lot are behind and to the north and have a farm with 500 beef cattle. No interesting goings on that I know of but they do know everyone else and their goings on.
I'm thinking we may need to organise a neighbourhood BBQ to get to know the other people round the corner in the wee hamlet.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Well when we arrived hear 28 years ago it was a village , now with all the building it must have doubled in size , however , people still think of it has a village thou We are lucky to have 2 successful Pubs , as so many have closed in other nearby Villages Always seem to have something happening
We stopped having milk delivery when deliveries were so late the milk stood outside all day. When we moved in, milk was delivered about 6am which was great. From neighbours we discovered that it was being delivered as late as 10am. The milkman got quite narky when we said we didn't want deliveries any more because they were too late in the day.
We have always had our milk delivered, long before we knew we were environmentally friendly! We were lucky in that the milk generally arrived before we left for work, and on the rare occasions it was late, our neighbours took it in. It never ceases to amaze me that, no matter how bad the weather, the milkman (or at the moment milkwoman), always gets through.
We have milk delivered by our local man (and his minions, until recently his sons but they've all got better paid jobs now!). He's very efficient, but the latest "minion" is a bit vague, and doesn't always deliver early, which is a nuisance.
Just realised this is the curmudgeons' thread, so I can complain about glass milk bottles being filled so full that when I press on the foil top with my thumb, in time-honoured fashion, milk spurts all over the place...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Before I started working from home I'd get milk delivered to the office as we were on a round there. The guy used to turn up at 6pm which was ideal for me as it was just as I was leaving but a few times he was an hour late and I'd have to stick around until he came. He'd also turn up early on Fridays when there was rugby on.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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PS. I have no interesting neighbours (or not that I know of anyway)! Could be the start of a new thread here in the Potting Shed!
I'm thinking we may need to organise a neighbourhood BBQ to get to know the other people round the corner in the wee hamlet.
We are lucky to have 2 successful Pubs , as so many have closed in other nearby Villages
Always seem to have something happening
Just realised this is the curmudgeons' thread, so I can complain about glass milk bottles being filled so full that when I press on the foil top with my thumb, in time-honoured fashion, milk spurts all over the place...