Robert Poste's Child

Do you have a sense of what's causing the smell - broken plumbing, damp, rubbish, lack of cleaning, people, for example? And does your own bathroom have a working extractor?

Or going north, take the Thameslink line from Denmark or Herne Hill for the Barton Hills, a small pocket of what looks like the Derbyshire dales dropped on the Beds/Herts border, Woburn Abbey, Whipsnade, the Dunstable downs and then on through the Chilterns.

Bluebell Railway, Uckfield Box Hill, Dorking Chichester Canterbury / Pilgrim's Way Bedgbury Forest Romney Marsh Whitbred hop farm (I know it's completely different now but I can still remember seeing the dray horses down for their holidays) Camber Sands

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Mailchimp's fine though finessing formatting can be a bit of a pain if you're used to systems where you have more control. From memory you can't set a precise delivery time as the system decides; can't remember the exact reason for that.

Shout

Sprog

Dbrskh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Dbrskh, if you're upstairs and have a husband > and > > two small kids, you hold all the trump cards! > > Perhaps you could encourage your husband to > stay > > out late drinking and, on his return in the > early > > hours. slam the shared front door, pound up the > > stairs, slam your own front door and fall over, > > ideally on uncarpeted floor if you have any (if > > not, consider taking up your carpet > temporarily). > > On Sunday, get your kids up at 7am and give them > a > > sugary breakfast before building them an > obstacle > > course in whichever room is above your new > > neighbours' bedroom. > > > > They will soon be only too keen to negotiate. > > Trust me. > > > Hi! Can we be best friends?! Unfortunately my > husband is a bit of a ?saint? and doesn?t go out > drinking, mind you he also only has one working > kidney! Otherwise I would definitely send him out > drinking and have him slam doors and stumble all > over our uncarpeted floor. > I did think of the kids? idea, not as elaborate as > yours (you genius, you!) but if they don?t listen > to or polite requests to not slam their doors > then...I will be getting the kids up very early > and having them do as you suggested. > > I nipped out last night and came back to my very > peaceful hubs annoyed at them, so annoyed he > actually had words with them whilst I was > out...needless to say, they did not comply to his > polite request about doors so they only received a > card and we have kept the bottle of wine (it?s > that good of a bottle!). They also haven?t locked > the front door not once! Living in London and all, > and their place being downstairs, wouldn?t it be > in their best interest to lock the damn door?! No? > Is it just me...? I don't have kids myself but I live on the ground floor and have learned from bitter experience. I've also noticed the sickly smiles on the faces of the neighbours of my sister (top floor, kids 7 and 9, 7yo with a scream that could strip metal). In my sister's defence, the violin and drumkit were inspired. You could tell your neighbours that not long ago ED was identified as one of the worst places in the country for burglary, so locking the front door will be helpful if they have to make an insurance claim.

Bring back manners!

Table! (Joking...) Exalt

One letter too many there, alice. Apple

Sorry, rupert45!

Lapel

Poker

Grape

Dbrskh, if you're upstairs and have a husband and two small kids, you hold all the trump cards! Perhaps you could encourage your husband to stay out late drinking and, on his return in the early hours. slam the shared front door, pound up the stairs, slam your own front door and fall over, ideally on uncarpeted floor if you have any (if not, consider taking up your carpet temporarily). On Sunday, get your kids up at 7am and give them a sugary breakfast before building them an obstacle course in whichever room is above your new neighbours' bedroom. They will soon be only too keen to negotiate. Trust me.

Ropey

Seems a bit intolerant.

In all the years I've lived around here most of my neighbours have been lovely. I completely sympathise about the slamming door driving you nuts but it could be worse. My tip is to introduce yourself and say they must tell you if you ever make noise that disturbs them. All decent people can decode this as 'you're making too much noise already'.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For real apocalypic, try this Portuguese sky. > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/18/picture > s-day-18-october-2017/ Wow. Terrifying.

How far does this reach, I wonder? Does not investigating these crimes also mean that the police won't bother to do anything if they happen to see someone in the act? If they're presented with clear evidence or the perpetrator confesses, will they fail to prosecute?

Cancelled and delayed trains at Clapham Junction. Have basically wasted an entire f###ing day now.

Chucking firecrackers is one thing, and I certainly remember teenagers setting off rockets from milk bottles at night, but surely the OP deserves a bit of sympathy? Kids may been doing that kind of thing for the last fifty years but every year people are injured or killed as a result.

That and they're hopeless.

When I reported my glasses being stolen in the library a few weeks ago, almost (I thought) catching the person in the act, I wrote on the form that I realised it was a petty crime but as the library is a hot spot for that kind of thing and has CCTV I felt it should be on their radar. Also, it may be a petty crime but it's still someone sticking their hand in your pocket to the tune of a couple of hundred quid. Anyway, since the automatic response from the online system, not a peep. Not even a courtesy message.