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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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The corner has been redesigned to facilitate social distancing and to accommodate the peeved and cantankerous.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    This may be necessary later but at the moment we have plenty of space
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I imagine that some of us will find we have places prebooked for us by others 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No ticket touts will be tolerated
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We were replacing a boiler and cast iron bath. I asked the plumber how we were going to get rid of them. He said just leave them in the front garden and they'll be gone in the morning.
    And so they were😊
    A couple of days later someone knocked to ask if they could have the copper immersion heater tank. This was in the back garden and not visible from the street but I suppose it was easy enough to work out we had one. I'd promised it to the plumber so they didnt get it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A few years ago we were having our back garden remodelled and at the same time our bathroom was being refitted (not by the same people).  I had agreed that the people doing the garden could take any metal they found out there. 
    A couple of days later the guy doing the bathroom asked if I had moved the radiator he had put out under our car port whilst he was tiling the bathroom.  We hadn't, but the people doing the garden had helped themselves to it.  They didn't need to go under the carport to get to the back garden.  Upside, we got a lovely new, fancy heated towel rail to replace it - at their expense.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Result KT53!  Now what can I leave out...…..
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've been moving a stupidly heavy "chiminea" around the garden since we moved here and I thought I'd move it to the gate, then remembered that our builders often collect "scrap metal" so I asked if they wanted it. Gone in days.
    Devon.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    We have left out a set of old car wheels that OH couldn't be bothered to take to the tip, and an old washing machine drum. Both times gone after a week or so. I think our local "scrap metal collectors" keep their eyes on things and take them if they're out for several days. If they knocked they could've had them sooner.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I’m just not feeling curmudgeonly at all, what’s wrong with me? I fear I’m letting the side down. The most I can get worked up about is I have been waiting 2 weeks for a pack of bolts so I can put a fence up. I might be waiting 2 months as our postal service has gone from weekly to monthly deliveries and if they just miss the slot...  >:)
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The scrappie around here drives his van around the town playing the Steptoe and Son theme tune through a loud hailer. At least you know he's not sneaking about nicking stuff when you can hear him from a couple of streets away.
    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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