Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
This is better than Emmerdale.
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Neighbour Wars
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Putting your haemhorroids in a vice is better than Emmerdale.
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Guru
Cool OP bro
swee'pea99
Squire
Absolutely - top story! Looking forward to updates.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Oh great, now I need to buy a vice.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
For my sins, I live In a modest ex development Corparation house, modern but in an estate with more than it' fair share of couldn't care lessers...but it's cheap, warm, and its mine.
Talking to a friend some years ago and I said I'd love a house on a private estate, to get away from the n'er do wells (it's not that bad really)
Her reply...
I've lived on a private estate, don't ever think it' quiet and well behaved, you'll get more acrimonious arguments than you'd believe.
Talking to a friend some years ago and I said I'd love a house on a private estate, to get away from the n'er do wells (it's not that bad really)
Her reply...
I've lived on a private estate, don't ever think it' quiet and well behaved, you'll get more acrimonious arguments than you'd believe.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
[QUOTE 5230658, member: 43827"]We live in a street of 1920s houses, mostly detached bungalows. When we moved in 35 years ago nearly all the bungalows (two bedrooms) were lived in by elderly working or retired people. We live in one of the few three bedroom houses and had a couple of young kids when we first moved in. That was a great source of mutterings from the neighbours as they were always out playing in the street with the four other kids who lived in the street, but eventually that passed and the number of confiscated balls dropped to zero. The only real excitement came when a couple of young women moved in to one bungalow who, it turned out, were prostitutes using it as their place of work. That lasted for less than a year but they moved on before our teenage son got too interested in their activities.
Over the past 10/15 years most of the older neighbours have either died or gone into care and their bungalows have been sold. Because they have large gardens every one of them has been converted to four bedroom dormer bungalows and the 2 storey houses converted to 3 storey houses, and in most cases younger families, often with kids, have moved in. The balance has changed and we now find ourselves the elderly neighbours. Luckily there have never been any major problems or threats of litigation, even though the street has not been free of builders for years.
Over the years we have thought of moving as the kids left home, but we decided we liked living in a street with a wide range of ages, including a couple of centenarians, unlike the modern estates we looked at with people all around the same ages and all deserted during the day with everyone at work. I am sure it also helped the kids to live in a place where they got to know old people, people who had developed dementia, and people who died.[/QUOTE]
Think yourself lucky regarding the conversions, round this way the substantial gardens to the bungalows in Glenfield (200yds or so away) all seem to have involved building a 2nd dwelling at the bottom of the garden (if not a couple) with what was formerly the drive converted into a road to it/them.
I think the record is 4 other dwellings built on the plot that was a (smallish) bungalow that is still there.
Over the past 10/15 years most of the older neighbours have either died or gone into care and their bungalows have been sold. Because they have large gardens every one of them has been converted to four bedroom dormer bungalows and the 2 storey houses converted to 3 storey houses, and in most cases younger families, often with kids, have moved in. The balance has changed and we now find ourselves the elderly neighbours. Luckily there have never been any major problems or threats of litigation, even though the street has not been free of builders for years.
Over the years we have thought of moving as the kids left home, but we decided we liked living in a street with a wide range of ages, including a couple of centenarians, unlike the modern estates we looked at with people all around the same ages and all deserted during the day with everyone at work. I am sure it also helped the kids to live in a place where they got to know old people, people who had developed dementia, and people who died.[/QUOTE]
Think yourself lucky regarding the conversions, round this way the substantial gardens to the bungalows in Glenfield (200yds or so away) all seem to have involved building a 2nd dwelling at the bottom of the garden (if not a couple) with what was formerly the drive converted into a road to it/them.
I think the record is 4 other dwellings built on the plot that was a (smallish) bungalow that is still there.
GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
Proverb 12: "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Specifically, verse 12 of chapter 11.
Habakkuk 2:15: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!"
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Ezekiel 23: 5, 12: "And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men."
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
None of which random quotes are desperately relevant to the subject of the thread.
I'm afraid my Hebrew is much ropier than my Greek, so I can't comment on the word that's translated as "neighbour" in the Old Testament. But it does occur to me that the concept which in Greek is expressed by the word xenos - stranger or guest or host - is pretty much universal, and is at the heart of the parable of the Good Samaritan. It's the Golden Rule by any other name.
I've just been reading a section of Herodotus in which Croesus hosts Adrastos. Before he does anything else he performs ritual purification for him. Then - and only then - he asks why he needs purification. "Because I killed my brother".
I'm afraid my Hebrew is much ropier than my Greek, so I can't comment on the word that's translated as "neighbour" in the Old Testament. But it does occur to me that the concept which in Greek is expressed by the word xenos - stranger or guest or host - is pretty much universal, and is at the heart of the parable of the Good Samaritan. It's the Golden Rule by any other name.
I've just been reading a section of Herodotus in which Croesus hosts Adrastos. Before he does anything else he performs ritual purification for him. Then - and only then - he asks why he needs purification. "Because I killed my brother".
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
I'm sure there'll be an Akkadian expert along in a minute.
