Random Irritations

Never heard of him and I find it ironic that I only know about him because someone on here was irritated by him and therefore increased his profile by publishing his existence. I suspect others on here will have been in the same boat.
Me neither but I am resisting finding out who he is.
 
@cliveb . Did your MiL get the usual treatment for stroke (the clot buster) in time to help her?

Hope she gets well soon. 🤞
She actually got a CT scan fairy quickly after arrival. But there was nobody available to check the scan. So she was put back in the ambulance and we waited several hours. Eventually she was transferred to a bed in A&E, but still the scan hadn't been read.

You can't just whack in the thrombolytics assuming it's a clot. It could be a bleed, and thrombolytics would make matters much worse. Eventually we had to leave when my wife's sister arrived. As of now we still don't know if the scan has been read! 😡
 
Never heard of him and I find it ironic that I only know about him because someone on here was irritated by him and therefore increased his profile by publishing his existence. I suspect others on here will have been in the same boat.
He's simply a "comedian" who's taken to saying something racist or otherwise controversial every time there's a major event. Then probably complains when he gets 'cancelled' - well in this case he was literally cancelled as a venue cancelled his next gig. Just another troll like Laurence Fox and Joey Barton these days really.
 
Never heard of him and I find it ironic that I only know about him because someone on here was irritated by him and therefore increased his profile by publishing his existence. I suspect others on here will have been in the same boat.

He is a well known comedian on the comedy circuit and has been on multiple comedy shows on BBC or Comedy Central etc
 
How ridiculously stupid / inconsiderate next door are.

Drains still blocked. Luckily I found a drain guy , he's coming in a bit. So I went to tidy up the rods I left outside at 10pm last night as couldn't be bothered to clean all the "muck" off them

Anyways I knocked. No answer so put a note through

"Hi, drains badly blocked. Have tried rodding them , didn't work, plumber on way try not to flush until he's been..thanks next door"

I left the drains up

Not only haven't they knocked , they went , had a good look and just buggered off to work.. not so much as a "thanks for sorting" or just acknowledgment of the situation they have caused that im getting fixed.

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I've never seen this one blocked before. It's always the one further up that gets blocked. So this is a serious blockage
 
Why are you assuming it's your immediate neighbour you don't like?

Drain man has been, he's confirmed it's them. However it's affecting 4 of our properties as the stuff has worked it's way down to next door and blocked their two drains.

Ive managed to finally catch his wife who's agreed to split the bill 4 ways and will be more careful with their cooking oil.
 
As they sound shared are you sure going private was the correct action rather than contacting the water company?

Yes, the blockage I found just before the private man arrived was within next doors man hole cover

Soon as he removed that our drains went..was a build up of oil and such from all 4 houses.

So because it's within private land it's our responsibility. Plus he's spent a couple hours removing limescale build up from all four properties that will increase the flow rate to help it not happen again.

£530 bill split 4 ways

Everyone's happy to pay which saves any awkward conversations

Don't think it's too bad first time in 10 years I've had to get anyone out and not been able to fix myself .. that said if I had known it was connected to next doors man hole I could have popped that this morning and unblocked it however I wouldn't have got rid of the limescale and other debris
 
Travellers have arrived at a local park yesterday

Dogs and horses all over the place , have destroyed a couple of kids swings etc

A park that’s normally rammed with kids all weekend will be somewhere to avoid now
 
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