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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7



Yesterday I conferred with some friends in England.
Their advice was the same as my thoughts, leave the Berlin Wall, do nothing, and deal with it if/when insurances are needed.
Hopefully the wall will stay up and doesn't succumb to wind (pigs might fly) but I really do sincerely hope the Berlin Wall will stay up because I now have my privacy from him which I like very much.

Mr Berlin Wall Xmas Lights neighbour's bungalow was up for sale when I moved here 20 years ago, and he has been trying to sell his bungalow ever since. But it never sells. Every year or so the For Sale signs go up for a year or so, sometimes signs from 2 or 3 estate agents. Then the next year he tries again with different estate agents. I think he has run out of estate agents now....


Wildlife nighttime camera
#ukwildlife
Badger gets on the swing!!! And looks in the trail camera.
This is Pa Badger. His son, Boy Badger, tries but fails.
1min


Creative...
The Magic Tree
I need some magic...

Have your best day.

Time for a cuppa.

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I wonder if the new Berlin Wall is a pre-cursor to yet another for sale sign? Lovely creative, is that Popeye in that tree?
 
Annb said:
Another spider in my bedroom last night but I caught it and put it out using my spider vacuum. This phobia is not one I picked up at school. I had it from a very young age - well before I started school. It wasn't helped when my grandfather - a kindly and well meaning man, played a silly trick on me. I was given a cup of tea flavoured milk and was just lifting it to my lips when he tossed a dark green "spider" (I thought) from a tomato (can't for the moment think what that part is called) into my cup. Everyone thought it was funny when I panicked and threw the cup of tea away from me then burst into tears. I was not yet three years old and have never forgotten that moment of sheer terror.
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There is a technique for treating phobias called ‘flooding’. That was not it.
 
Annb said:
Another spider in my bedroom last night but I caught it and put it out using my spider vacuum. This phobia is not one I picked up at school. I had it from a very young age - well before I started school. It wasn't helped when my grandfather - a kindly and well meaning man, played a silly trick on me. I was given a cup of tea flavoured milk and was just lifting it to my lips when he tossed a dark green "spider" (I thought) from a tomato (can't for the moment think what that part is called) into my cup. Everyone thought it was funny when I panicked and threw the cup of tea away from me then burst into tears. I was not yet three years old and have never forgotten that moment of sheer terror.
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That was absolutely stupid of your grandfather @Annb
 
ianpspurs said:
Hug for the drilling being a nuisance. Glad you liked the Frost poem - I liked it from first reading at about age 15. Considering I dislike the cold it is odd that this one is my favourite. Obviously due to being about orchards.
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Really enjoyed the poem. Might look up more by frost
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
#ukwildlife
Boy Badger trying to get on swing...

This is sped up, because this Boy Badger was doing this on & off all night...
It seems to me he has lost the plot a bit and is not sure what exactly he is actually doing...
He has watched his Pa trying to get on the swing, but all he has seen is the destructive behaviour of Pa Badger, which hasn't really been destructive behaviour but Pa Badger trying every means to get on the swing, for any stray cat biscuits or to sit on the swing (like Cat Midnight), and groom himself...
By the way, months ago I tied all the cloths to the swing as they were being pulled off by Pa Badger (then called KissyKissy because he kept 'kissing' Cat Midnight), on to wet muddy ground...
1 and a half minutes long

Creative...
I sat on the swing late afternoon watching my back garden. This is the scene.
The sparrows have chosen their partners for next year's brood, and the squabbling has stopped. Seagulls overhead. The little Dunnock is back after her brood has flown away. She gets perilously close to Midnight, who does not have one jot of interest in birds...
And I was thinking.
I'd had a noisy day with the waterboard there nearly 5 hours in all. It was not something I had asked to be done, but Mr Xmas Lights Berlin Wall neighbour had requested a water meter. The problem for me was the stopcock for me and him were both at the end of my driveway, and they said they would be an hour, but there were problems. Both stopcocks for me and him were joined together in one hole. Weird. As usual when noisy work is to be done he and his wife disappear for the day, or for a few weeks when he had work done on his driveway/bungalow/ etc etc leaving me with the dust and noise etc. So I ended up talking to the workmen who thought this was going to go on until tomorrow. I said no, I wanted this finished today. I supplied them with coffee (they did have another job up the road for a water meter which they said they needed to do today). Anyway, give them their due they completed it. And went up the road to see if they could do the other water meter, they did and that was a simple job which was completed in less than an hour.
While the water board were here, I took the chance to examine the Berlin Wall Fence more closely on his side, by leaning over my front wall.. And I saw that the fence had no upright supports at all. I was not pleased. It had been attached to my 50 year old breeze block wal (I gave the history of that yesterday)l, by a piece of wood screwed into the length of my breeze block wall, and the only thing supporting the fence are screws into that wood at each length of panel. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Several reasons.
* he has illegally attached a very heavy structure on to my old breezeblock wall with absolutely no support structure
* we have very nigh winds which get channelled into that passageway and they cause destruction each storm.
* how long will it be before the wind gets at the height of that fence and brings it and my breeze block wall down.

And more stuff.

So the creative is me thinking on the swing. I need a day away from this place. I have some thinking to do. Do I do something now, and object. Or do I say to myself leave it until there is a problem and do something thing about it then. I do have insurance, but whether that covers a 50 year old breeze block wall, is another matter. But a 50 year old breezeblock wall which a neighbour has attached a heavy wood panel to with absolutely no upright supports and without permission, I think my insurance would cover that. And in any case, I have a neighbour dispute insurance, so hopefully I am fully covered...

I have just put some stuff in the car, flask etc, and escape to England and sanity...

Mrs Berlin Wall Xmas Lights neighbour was at the front sweeping, and I said a bright and cheery good morning, and she gave me a dirty look, stopped sweeping and went in...

Bye for now....

Sorry, I haven't checked for typos, will do that tonight...

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A very different painting from you today. You have so much talent.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7



Yesterday I conferred with some friends in England.
Their advice was the same as my thoughts, leave the Berlin Wall, do nothing, and deal with it if/when insurances are needed.
Hopefully the wall will stay up and doesn't succumb to wind (pigs might fly) but I really do sincerely hope the Berlin Wall will stay up because I now have my privacy from him which I like very much.

Mr Berlin Wall Xmas Lights neighbour's bungalow was up for sale when I moved here 20 years ago, and he has been trying to sell his bungalow ever since. But it never sells. Every year or so the For Sale signs go up for a year or so, sometimes signs from 2 or 3 estate agents. Then the next year he tries again with different estate agents. I think he has run out of estate agents now....


Wildlife nighttime camera
#ukwildlife
Badger gets on the swing!!! And looks in the trail camera.
This is Pa Badger. His son, Boy Badger, tries but fails.
1min


Creative...
The Magic Tree
I need some magic...

Have your best day.

Time for a cuppa.

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Is the tree going to grab and eat the owl?
 
dunelm said:
What a rabble of nuisances. Fingers crossed for your Saturday appointment. Keep the shiny side up.
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Trying to cancel appointment.
Keep texting me say how much it costs to not attend, instruction is DO NOT text back call....

Problem is I've been trying all morning line always busy.:banghead:

Bike now gone :(
Never going to be able to ride it again due to hand..(and leg position, if I could )

Scooter in bits.
Might be able to ride that at some point, just to prove I can still do it.

Did ride once, but not the carefree, joyous experience it once was.

Time will tell.

Meanwhile I live vicariously through those who can .

Travel safe...:cool:
 
dunelm said:
Peer pressure has a lot to answer for. We have a large spider having the time of it’s life in our sitting room. I have named it Eric (small body and long legs so probably male). We have had quite a few during the past few weeks but it is their mating season. Eric seems to have decided to stay on. Should we charge rent?
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While Eric's a good name, with legs like that, surely he's more a 'john'.?

Just don't mention the war.
 
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