Looking after old neighbours

[skyrider]

3 minutes ago, Stu said:

@Bender are we having a willie waving contest  

 

 

no house renovating 

[Bender]

5 minutes ago, Stu said:

@Bender are we having a willie waving contest  

 

 

Nope, it's who makes the most mess decorating, at least I don't fook off after making a mess. 

 

I'm so OCD I'm working my way round the house replacing all the sills and trims that the window installers fooked up, which was most, they did give money off.

 

I'm pretty good at plastering now.

[Stu]

6 minutes ago, Bender said:

Nope, it's who makes the most mess decorating, at least I don't fook off after making a mess. 

 

I'm so OCD I'm working my way round the house replacing all the sills and trims that the window installers fooked up, which was most, they did give money off.

 

I'm pretty good at plastering now.

 

OK ok I will try! 

 

 

[Bender]

Yup that's like here, I did the full Hall and then then my first 45d up the stairs joint.

[Stu]

The kitchen was a good project! 

 

I never take enough photos though 

[Six30]

[Bender]

Anywho this is off topic and definitely not rugged individualism 

 

[Bender]

Just now, Six30 said:

That is on topic so are you saying I should forward your details to the old biddy next door? 

[Tiggie]

I've only got two photos of when I did my Kitchen.  One is of how I turned the dining room into a storage centre and the other is the wallpaper I found behind the old units!

 

 

[Six30]

1 minute ago, Bender said:

That is on topic so are you saying I should forward your details to the old biddy next door? 

any pics of her first ?

[Tiggie]

@Six30

 

[Six30]

2 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

@Six30

 

on my way , she's hot...

 

[Bender]

3 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

@Six30

 

I would.

[Bender]

6 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

I've only got two photos of when I did my Kitchen.  One is of how I turned the dining room into a storage centre and the other is the wallpaper I found behind the old units!

 

 

I can say of all the horror I have uncovered in our house of which there have been many, non of the paper has been as bad as that 

[Tiggie]

Thats genuine vintage 70's Style 

 

I like to imagine the kitchen would of originally looked similar to this  

 

 

[skyrider]

3 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

Thats genuine vintage 70's Style 

 

I like to imagine the kitchen would of originally looked similar to this  

 

 

it's a splash of colour if nothing else 

[Bender]

10 minutes ago, skyrider said:

it's a splash of colour if nothing else 

Makes me glad that as a kid we just had mould in the kitchen.

 

[Six30]

8 hours ago, Tiggie said:

Thats genuine vintage 70's Style 

 

I like to imagine the kitchen would of originally looked similar to this  

 

 

thats an Acid trip dude

[rennie]

Well done for helping out! 

 

We are the elderly neighbours in our street! 

[James in Brum]

There are volunteers who can ride along with people to assess their safety driving and report to you. 

[Old-codger]

The thing I find very sad is some old folk I know in their eighties that live on their own who all have grown up children but they never go round to see them or help out around the house and garden. They only turn up when the children want something usually bailing out or cash for a new looney venture. I listen to the parents saying how wonderful their children are doing and they are so busy they havnt got the time to visit let alone cut the grass or get some shopping for them. Deep down I hope they realize what selfish tossers the children are and leave any money to a charity or something. 

[S-Westerly]

14 minutes ago, Old-codger said:

The thing I find very sad is some old folk I know in their eighties that live on their own who all have grown up children but they never go round to see them or help out around the house and garden. They only turn up when the children want something usually bailing out or cash for a new looney venture. I listen to the parents saying how wonderful their children are doing and they are so busy they havnt got the time to visit let alone cut the grass or get some shopping for them. Deep down I hope they realize what selfish tossers the children are and leave any money to a charity or something. 

True enough, but sometimes it's distance too. Through no fault of their own my parents live in mid-Northumberland but I live in Gloucestershire and work at sea, one brother lives in Munich and the other in Houston. Even without covid its not practical for us to pop in to just have a cup of tea and help out a bit. With covid it's totally impossible.  My brother in Munich has  had to cancel 4 flights to the UK this last year. 

[Stu]

I bet most of these on here are the old neighbours

 

[Old-codger]

Yes I agree S-westerly distance is a problem but the old folk I mentioned all have families within 10 miles of them and in one case lives in the next village.

[MarkW]

I live well over 100 miles away from my mother, and yet I cut the grass for her far more often than my brother does, and he's only 15 minutes down the road from her. Lazy bugger.

 

Mind you, he has had one or two bad experiences there: he electrocuted himself on the mower a few years ago because she'd left it out in the rain, and another time he ran over a dead cat that was hidden by the long grass, already partially decomposed and heaving with maggots. Imagine hitting that lot with a Flymo!