Total Twaddle
Idle Chat. => Total Chat. => Topic started by: Tāf on March 31, 2014, 10:04:52 AM
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Chainsaw and tree shredder. Our neighbours had a complaint about a tree in their garden last year. Today the council has sent lumberjacks.
They won't be culling the leylandii (spit) though. :'(
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Next doors cement mixer
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE5WscjdNZs[/youtube]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scHS8YaYoRA[/youtube]
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Next doors 4 dogs and several puppies yapping and barking for the last few hours outside.
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American trilogy by Elvis
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lots of whinging
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Children screaming. (Outside, not in here. Well, not today, anyway. Broccoli day is Thursday.)
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Red - Release the Panic
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Joan Baez, for some unfathomable reason.
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Forest Gump soundtrack
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Edwin Starr - 25 Miles. If this doesn't get me shuffling about my business, nothing will.
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What's going on by Marvin
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Westlife . Queen of my heart
Next up.....Swing low sweet chariot by China Black and Ladysmith black mombaso
Me and our Millie are going to clean the floor to that ;D
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Birds twittering in the trees at the back of our garden. Lovely sound - we used to miss that in Ashford - there, ours was the only garden with trees in it, and they were only small trees at that!
Here, we get a medley of different birds - starlings, magpies, tits, wood pigeons, house sparrows, swallows (they aren't actually in the trees, they are under the eaves!) - heard a cuckoo nearby last week!! - and we get nightingales in the evenings, too! :D
Oddly enough, not seen any finches here though. :-\ Neighbour in the flat downstairs doesn't just have a bird table - she has a banquet!!
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dog snoring
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Not Strong Enough - Apocalyptica
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Next door frantically running round with a lawnmower before the rain comes again
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Wall drilling next door. Wall insulation finally going in after they signed an expensive contract.
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An explosion of foul language when a neighbour found their car clamped late this morning. :laugh:
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Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band. Innit funny how you never forget the words to certain songs yet I can`t remember what I talked about to me mum this morning ???
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Spotify
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Alison Moyet
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Kids down the road have been given whistles by their barmy mother. :(
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love whistles
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A neighbour's grandchild, practicing the trumpet. (Cuts ears off.)
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Genesis, Platinum Collection
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Bloody Diwali fireworks, it's like WW1 out there
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Drivers having a heated discussion about why a truck is blocking the road making a large delivery.
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My son's endless litany on the correct way to cook pasta. (He's eleven years old. God help any woman who marries him.)
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Fireworks in the castle grounds are loud this year.....
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Sounds like the Somme out there tonight
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More non stop fireworks
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Same here, they haven't stopped since diwali (whatever that is).
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Wish they would just p*** off now :-X Just let the dog out for a pee and she is a nervous wreck
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Fireworks, STILL! Along with Bertie barking at them
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Cant bloody believe it. Soddi fiteworks going off again ! 6th night running this. Wish it would storm on them
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Bloody phone cant type
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The rain and the pressure cooker
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Fireworks started early tonight, they've been going off for the last hour
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Snoring and squeaky doors
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Fireworks finally finished about 2.30
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Random fireworks from dusk to almost dawn.
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The Chase on the tele and Millie snoring on my lap .
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Traffic driving over the Medway Bridge (motorway - M2 - and it's really loud today for some reason, the double-glazing usually shuts it out).
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The wind
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3 ambulances stuck in traffic..... they really need to sort out the roads near here.
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A broken laptop whirring
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Mill snoring and her tail banging on the tv mag next to me . sounds like it is a happy dream she is having. Probs about Cyrus the black lab who lives round the corner. She was nannying with him today on the fields ::) both of them are done so no pups :laugh:
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I'm TRYING to listen to One foot in the grave on the telly.
I'm actually being forced to listen to a video HoN is watching on his laptop about the live feed to the anti-whale demo at the Japanese Embassy in London....
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Pick of the Pops on Radio 2, with Tony Blackburn 1975 at the moment
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dog snoring . Again .Sometimes I wish our Lisa`s boyfriend at the time had bought her a little yappy lap dog for Valentines day 3 years ago ::). I don`t think she realised just how bloody big a labrador is ::)
There again, could have been worse, her best mate , Cyrus the black lab who lives round the corner...............he saw her yesterday passing his house with me. Owners opened the side gate and then we all held onto the front garden fence as he came bounding out to greet her ;D So, will count my blessings that she is smaller than the male lab :laugh:
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R.Kelly . I believe i can fly
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The telly.
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Our new washer dryer....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOJ13sFeu4[/youtube]
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A braying old man, boring me to death with tales of his fighting prowess in his youth. Why do they do this? No one cares, or even believes them.
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The wind, the traffic passing over the Medway Bridge, and my deaf old neighbour shouting into her phone.
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Sweet talking guy. Eeeeh that takes me back ;D
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Confused birds, they are starting another dawn chorus!
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Bridge over troubled waters
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The rattle of aluminium ladders, the missus has paid to have the windows cleaned. £8.
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Wow! I only pay 3.50 for all windows front and back every fortnight.
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The missus organised it, cut him down from £10, and got them to wipe down the PVC frames too (normally extra).
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£5 here for all that
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Swing low sweet chariot by Lady smith black mombazo
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Chilling out to The Carpenters on Deezer
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I have Deezer :D
I go to sleep many a night with a bit of Eva classidy or Simon n garfunkel. Last night to John lennon
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One family's kids playing outside since about 7 a.m. :-\
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Hedge trimmers next door. They got a letter and a visit from the council about their "overhanging hedge".
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Old beatles records on the radio and very good they are too
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Rain on the tree outside.
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Washer spinning
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Very loud 80s cheese...
How long until a child tells me to turn it down. Lol
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Getting my funk on...
http://tunein.com/station/?StationId=212924
:8: :banger: :ban: :piano:
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Twonks in the next street playing very loud reggae with very questionable lyrics. Police won't be long I suspect....
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Teen mom 2 on the tele
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My neighbour, throwing yet another boyfriend out. She tried to run the last one over, because he wouldn't bugger off. :laugh:
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R. Kelly album whilst I sort the kitchen out
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The Wright Stuff, on in the background. My 12 year old has become oddly addicted to it. ???
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Wings by Birdie
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Listening to Bowie, on Deezer app
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Bbc radio Manchester with Nike sweeney. Trying to guess the year
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Been listening to Proms in the park
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From the repeated cries of, "Fack", and "You mag", I'm guessing my neighbour has got his Danny Dyer DVDs out again. I do wish he wasn't quite so deaf. :sigh:
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From the repeated cries of, "Fack", and "You mag", I'm guessing my neighbour has got his Danny Dyer DVDs out again. I do wish he wasn't quite so deaf. :sigh:
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Trap Queen - Fetty Wrap
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Sounds of the Sixties
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R Kelly
Had to turn the tele off cos we have car racing on one side and football on the other and when they finish, they will probably have rugby on. I have no problems with it on . Loads love sport but some of us just don't. Some of us would quite like it if they had something decent as an alternative . All the cable channels are on yet another set of adverts with a set of back to back trash on five minute intervals .
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Manchester radio with Mike Sweeney. Am playing Guess the year :D
Lots of motown
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Audiobook The taming of the Queen. Got me totally gripped
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Macklemore - Downtown
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Sounds of the Sixties
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Radio Manchester
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Ed Shearan
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Just bought the beatles no 1s
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My loyal subjects, clamouring for my attention. Either that, or the Police are raiding next door again.
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Disclosure - Magnets
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Sounds of the sixties
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sneezes echoing off the walls
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The opposite side of the street, 5 houses down, and she yaks like this for hours and hours in the street....
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Maltesers crunching between my teeth ;D
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Round the Horn
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A load of Erasure songs, on my phone. Not sure why.
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The dog snoring
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Acombination of World War II, and two old ladies conversing very loudly in the street, outside.
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Vincent by ...? Can't remember ??? Don McLean ???
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It is
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The third lot of hail in an hour.....
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HoN banging on about the next car he's planning on buying when he gets his degree next Spring. Yes, I'm going to have to listen to this for another year... yawn... :bored:
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Chris n the dog snoring . I so wish they could snore in sync ::)
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Moody Blues
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Wings by birdie
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My friend, banging on about how he's being persecuted by not being allowed to buy cigarettes in tens anymore.
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, it really is a classic
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Increasingly drunken singing.
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Radiohead's new album. Not sure about it, yet.
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The Eagles
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The rain. :(
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Washing machine on spin cycle
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sounds exciting
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I like living on the edge ;)
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tweeties since first light
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Some portentious music, droning from my son's PS4, that he's wandered away from and left blaring out.
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Best of ELO
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Mozart. Ave Verum Corpus.
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Meic Stevens
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Abba. Because children must learn hardship.
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A tit, wittering on about the Ghostbusters remake. Who cares? The original film was rubbish. There, I've said it.
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A tit, wittering on about the Ghostbusters remake. Who cares? The original film was rubbish. There, I've said it.
Take that back!
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Kids screaming from 7am to 8:40 am.
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A tit, wittering on about the Ghostbusters remake. Who cares? The original film was rubbish. There, I've said it.
Take that back!
Never! And the same goes for Back To The Future. All three of 'em!
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A tit, wittering on about the Ghostbusters remake. Who cares? The original film was rubbish. There, I've said it.
Take that back!
Never! And the same goes for Back To The Future. All three of 'em!
I don't care so much about them.
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Navy Lark, followed by Hancocks Half Hour
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I listened to dad's army over the last few nights ;D
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Dock of the bay Otis Redding
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Abbey rd
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Feral kids and their feral parents
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2 problem families' kids screaming in the road. ???
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Nineteen minutes. An audiobook by jodi picoult . Brilliant. Have read the hardback and this is even better.
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Sounds like World War 3 outside
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Same here. I must be getting old cos these fireworks sound more lethal every year ::)
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Blessed quiet at t6he moment here
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He is listening to football on the radio. I'm off for a nap and will listen to Enya .
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I spent five miles worth of time listening to the scraping/squealing of the bit of grit caucht in the brakes of the car
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The Voice.
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World in union anthems
swing low sweet chariot with ladysmith black mombasso
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The buffoon next door but one who is revving one of his three! Cars. He has a works van, his car and her car. No drive and parked all over the place.
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Helicopter hovering close by. Not our police or ambulance one though ???
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Some country music playlist on Spotify
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He has found the sport channel ::)
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Brothers in arms
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Sounds f the Sixties on iPlayer now Radio 2 have stupidly changed the time to 6am to 8
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Ian Rankin. The waiting game. Not my usual choice at all but was on daily deal and it is gripping.
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Wood pigeons and gulls from dawn.... :-\
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Radio Manchester
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One of the council bin lorries makes a very loud, metallic squeal when the compactor is used. It was taken off the road for repair. But guess what? It was outside our home just after 7am squealing over and over :-\
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Right now I can hear the refrigerator whirring away
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Chris snoring in tandem with the dog. Must be bedtime.
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I was woken by traffic noise 2 roads over. Then an ambulance, and another, and another... 6:20 :-\
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Gryff licking himself :-X
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His lordship has the radio, TV on , and he is clicking away on Cut the rope on the tablet ::)
And now, the Alsatian next door is kicking off cos my dog has gone out for a pee.
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A young woman I've known since she was a baby had a garden party for her 30th last evening. It turned out that most of her female friends were part of a choir, so we were serenaded to renditions of many, many pop songs.
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Radio 2 Ken Bruce
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Same here, time for Pop Master
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Robert Miles.... 47 is too young to die :'(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5ca6Hsb2Q
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Council workers refitting the lead flashing around next doors' chimney. The magpies will be back to lift it all in no time.
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Radio Manchester as usual. A morning of Manchester bands. So Oasis at the moment. Just had the hollies
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Carlos santana Samba pa ti
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Neighbours had a front garden wall built. Now they are knocking it down, presumably to make place for their 3 cars. Daft.
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The news........brexit . ...yadayayada. ....theresa what's her face bored .....gab gab gab......economy. ......źzzzzzzzzzz
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Bob Marley - The Legend
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Crappy Corrie :-X cos he insists on watching it
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Jackhammers at dawn for a water main repair, then jackhammers since 8 for a neighbour's drive replacement.
A whole front garden of crazy paving being ripped-up, around 150 square metres.
The boss turned up a little while ago and started screaming at the workers.
"We didn't contract to do all that! 4 lorry loads of spoil already and you're not even removed half of it!"
He obviously didn't know the history of the place:
The council put in concrete driveways in all the local council houses in the late 60's. The owner of the house in question would not get a free driveway, so he stripped all the topsoil out front and moved it out back.
Then all waste concrete after each pour was dumped in his garden.
About a foot deep, but very rough surface, so he laid crazy paving over the lot.
I reckon about 50 cubic metres of concrete, plus all the crazy paving. And then it all has be be backfilled with 50 cubic metres of subbase.
And it's a fixed contract, not a quote. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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The screamer from over the rd is home from school and she has friends with her. They like to scream too ::)
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Harry goody two shoes Potter
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Never read or watched any Harry Potter
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He's watching Emmerdale and I'm listening to Mark Knopfler and playing Word Zig Zag and stroking the dog. Multitasking ;D
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Enya
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The Eagles
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Queen-Greatest Hits
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He has put Black Sabbath on again. I was listening to the Eagles but brother visited and put Lynard Skinnard on which prompted Chris to start with this rubbish
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Barcelona
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Utter silence outside, not even a bird is making a noise.... ???
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One of the bin trucks makes an awful groaning noise as it compresses the rubbish, and it started at 7:30 this morning, repeated very few minutes as usual.
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The Navy Lark
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Street sweeper flying past at 30mph about 6 times. No sign it actually picked up any gutter rubbish though.
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Drills, wheelbarrows, and a blasting radio plus one of the builders thinks he can sing
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.....one of the builders thinks he can sing
There's always one ;D
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Celine Dion Immortality
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Sound like ww3 out there
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a few people wasting money on flashbangs
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Very loud bangs.... since about 5pm.... >:(
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Chris is watching police interceptors on the tv and the builders are listening to Mary Robbins and El Paso in the kitchen ..cowboy songs ;D
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The Beatles. Just lol cos the plasterer got tricked as I usually do. He was singing along to Sgt. Peppers and he went on warbling "for the benefit of Mr Kite then I get by with a little help from my friends " and Alexa doesn't play in order so we got Here comes the sun :laugh:
Funny how the next song on an album is burned in your brain :laugh:
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Paul Young
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Some crap about Brexit.
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Queen - Platinum Collection
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A ******* car alarm >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Currently listening to the soothing sounds of Gryff snoring :laugh:
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Chris listening to Manchester radio. I'm in kitchen listening to Perfect by Ed whatsit but I can also hear the dog snoring. Oh the purifier is whirring away and the microwave keeps beeping at me.
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The car alarm sounded around midnight, then there was a loud bang and it didn't sound again. ???
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That bl**dy alarm has started again. The owner is not answering his door, and hasn't done so for the past 3 days. The police are now refusing to do anything about it, and the council says it will take "at least 3 days" to attend.
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The Moody Blues in memory of Ray Thomas who died this weekend RIP Ray
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The council noise control office called. She had called the house in question, but the grandmother denied knowing about any car at all.
So I was called back and I explained the situation further (it's her "son" who is actually the father of 2 of her grandchildren who live there with their mother).
She called them again and the grandmother admitted it was one of the many cars he has parked around here, part of his "car repair service" but he was "away" and she had no keys. She refused to give his home address (I think he sleeps in the 20 seater van parked in their front garden) but eventually gave his mobile number. He said that he was on his way back to Cardiff and would silence the alarm.
He was warned that if a Noise Control Officer is called out, he would be billed "hundreds of pounds". That should concentrate his mind.
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The car owner turned up and moved the offending car to the next street.
Then he walked back and hammered on a neighbours' door and gave them hell for "calling the cops in". The neighbours gave as well as they got.... police on their way due to his threatening behaviour.
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The missus wandering the house hammering in nails to hang dreamcatchers. ???
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Dire Straits on the radio
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Put a play list on Alexa
Bad moon rising
Sweet home alabama
Saturday night at the movies
November rain
Halo
Fat bottomed girls
Devil came down to Georgia
Barcelona
I'm off to paint
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Harry Chapin
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Chainsaws. Elderly neighbours received letters from 2 homes behind them about their Leylandii "hedge". 3 metres higher than the roof tops, and I have been warning them for years. Rather than end up being done under The High Hedges Law, they have borrowed money to have them reduced... a lot.
All the debris has to come through their kitchen extension, and she's very house proud.
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Winter Olympics yawn
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Best of Supertramp
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The high pitched whistle in my ear again.
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Traffic. It's back. On the main road at least.
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Still no traffic here
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It sounds normal out there now. We have a tiny thaw going on
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New neighbour shoveling her drive and path. The only other to do so.
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The dog eating her food like it's the last she will ever eat.
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Pink Floyd for the bleeding umpteenth time . I don't mind once or twice but by the fifth time I could cheerfully take the remote off him ....except he is bloody sat on it ???
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Been listening to The Navy Lark, now Round the Horn, brilliant classic comedy
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Is that on audiobook Mike?
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No Radio 4 extra, every Wednesday at 8am, must admit I have every Navy Lark on CD and my MP3 player though
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Motown chart busters volume 3
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The gulls on Tesco's roof were very noisy at dawn. :grumpy:
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The Chilites
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Leona Lewis footprints in the sand
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I was listening to water dripping loudly onto the kitchen ceiling.
Pol had started to run the bath, left the bathroom and forgot all about it.... and it overflowed.
Just waiting for the water to come through the ceiling.. again... after the first time she did it.
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Eeeek!
Happened to us years ago with the shower leaking. I wondered where this shadow over the kitchen cupboards was coming from ::) turned out it was our eldest daughter who turned the shower towards the tiles . Hummmph water was slowing going between the bath and wall, then under the bath and collected over the kitchen bloody cupboards. We had to have the ceiling renewed :'(
I taped the shower head to the holder after that so she couldn't turn it .
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THHGTTG
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A newish neighbour had the whole front garden concreted over just last week.
The council objected as there is not enough drainage, and he hadn't asked permission.
So 2 lads are out the removing half of it...
The council inspectors are on a roll recently.... :o
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Perfect by Ed sheeran
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Maxwells silver hammer
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In my life by the Beatles Eeeeeh they don't make em like that anymore :D
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Immortality by Celine Dion
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Barcelona
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Supoertramp
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A bonkers robin sing "She's a Barbie girl..."
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Yes songs
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A pair of Blackbirds doing their nut probably because their fledgling is out of the nest and hiding from the cats.
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The Eagles
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Halo by Beyonce
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Drunks yelling in the street about 2am.
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Meatloaf
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"Barry" and "Gary" from Microsoft Technical Department, have each called me twice to offer to repair my PC because it was sending out viruses from my hotmail account via Internet Explorer.
I don't have a hotmail account, never use Internet Explorer, and don't believe spam calls from Pakistanis who say they are calling from "London, England".
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Cha cha slide with great grandson :D
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Desperado by The Eagles
The Longships by Enya
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The missus, who hates sport as much as I do, is listening to football as "it's the only thing on French radio". ??? ??? ???
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Sweet home Alabama
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All the Beatles
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In memory to the queen of soul an afternoon of Aretha Franklin
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They've played a lot of her songs today. Fantastic soul singer.
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Queen
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The missus is watching a French TV soap.. far too loud! :grumpy:
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ELO live at Wembley
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Frank Sinatra live
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Snoring
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Gardeners cutting the grass
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Snoring most of the night. :-\
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Next doors' dogs either yapping or pushing a steel food bowl around the concrete area they live on.
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Alison Moyet
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Kids screaming at each other, followed by mother screaming at kids.
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A warbling house alarm sounding from about 5pm to after midnight last night. The double glazing didn't even baffle it....
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Freddie Mercury in Budapest concert.
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I boarded a bus in the city centre to travel all the way out again to get to a Sainsburys.
A gang got on making a fuss.
"I hope you've got your sexy knickers on today!"
"Gis a kiss darlin' "
"Get on a move on, I'm dying for a fag!"
"Me I'm dying for a piss, 3 pints at lunchtime was a mistake".
"Stuff your bloody mobile, I want to have a chat".
"I bet you move quick in bed, you look like a right tart".
On-and-on all the way to Sainsburys where they got off too. I could hear them as I did my shopping.
Chavvy kids?
Nope.
Pensioners!!! :o :o :o :o
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The council has a rented bin truck that squeals when they use the compressor, and they use the compressor a lot. It started at 7:20 and went on-and-on-and -on for ages.
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Run by Leona Lewis
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The missus has Pingu on..... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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ELO
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Someone near us set off one of those auto-boxes of fireworks, the windows rattled with every blast... 24 I counted.
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Constant bangs of fireworks. They were still going on at 11pm last night.
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Well past midnight here, in the pouring rain!
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Bang, Bang, Bang
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Started again the minute it went dark. Dog is a nervous wreck.
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A family across the road are having their 3rd evening of fireworks, and this lot are LOUD and very, very smoky.
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Just started around here
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These sound like explosions. Wow! Just massive bangs about 20 in a row. They are in the front and back gardens . Am seriously worried about my dog now.
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More bloody fireworks, it's Diwali now
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None here, not many Hindus hereabouts.
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It's the local selfish sods here and they're not Hindus either. Seventh night running now but each night a little less. Monday was very bad.
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Buggers went on longer than bonfire fireworks
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Loud fireworks. :grumpy:
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Someone was setting off those large packs of fireworks in the field below the flats we lived in. Most of the explosions were happening right outside the windows
Police turned up, but the people had run off.
Police left and the fireworks started again.
Police came back, and they had run off again.
Police left and the fireworks started again.
I could hear shouting from over there so perhaps someone got too upset....
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Adverts again on I'm a Celeb.
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Someone was setting off those large packs of fireworks in the field below the flats we lived in. Most of the explosions were happening right outside the windows
Police turned up, but the people had run off.
Police left and the fireworks started again.
Police came back, and they had run off again.
Police left and the fireworks started again.
I could hear shouting from over there so perhaps someone got too upset....
It was the distraught father of this guy, trying to get his spirit to return. We passed the tribute display just after dark yesterday, right next to the bench where he and his mates hung around annoying local residents.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6488129/Man-24-killed-train-running-tracks-wrong-platform.html
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Andrea Bocelli
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At least 3 lawnmowers! :o
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Martin Gaye
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The street trees thrashing about in the wind.
No daleks as yet......
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Him coughing.
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Gulls since before dawn. :-\
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Across the road, tree fellers are cutting branches and chipping them. The council won't allow the one outside our home to be touched at all. But BT have the right to clear branches away from their overhead telephone lines.
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Across the road, tree fellers are cutting branches and chipping them. The council won't allow the one outside our home to be touched at all. But BT have the right to clear branches away from their overhead telephone lines.
WOOHOO! An official-looking bod came to our door asking if the street tree caused us any grief. Oh yes, pollen storms, fallen catkins blocking drains, honeydew from Spring to Autumn, then leaves blocking drains and making the pavements slippery.
He noted it all down, then gave the tree fellers the nod. 10 minutes later the canopy had been raised by at least 8 feet.
And a "systemic" treatment will be used to control the aphids in a couple of weeks.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Enya the longships
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Many fences being repaired after the storm.
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News Quiz Extra
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Sounds of the Sixties
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ELO
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The missus is watching Tom and Jerry...