The Retirement Thread
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classic33
Leg End Member
You were a scrubber today, the last thing you wanted was anyone walking in on you whilst you were at it.
PaulSB
Squire
Flick of the Elbow
less than
Just noticed that someone who I remember as a little girl on a Tandem Club youth hostelling weekend has just finished 5th in their elite senior debut at the mtb world championships. Chapeau Isla Short 
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
You know that someone lives somewhere with a very low crime rate when they don't keep their doors permanently locked!
PS My sister is moving to a small village in Devon. She has been ferrying van loads of stuff down and has been chatting to her soon-to-be neighbours. She asked if they could keep an eye on the house until she moved in and they started laughing. When she asked why, they suggested that she should look up the crime figures for the past few years. She did... Apparently, one person got an ASBO about 3 years ago. That's it!
Compare with here in Todmorden, which is itself not exactly the most crime-ridden town in England...
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classic33
Leg End Member
Lock the door when going out or going to bed. If I'm in or in the garden(out of sight) I'll leave it unlocked.You know that someone lives somewhere with a very low crime rate when they don't keep their doors permanently locked!
PaulSB
Squire
You know that someone lives somewhere with a very low crime rate when they don't keep their doors permanently locked!
Until we got a new porch we never locked the house - even when we went out!! The door was so crappy there was no point
We lock the new porch door at night and when going out but usually it's unlocked.
Round here if you're not recognised people will ask "Can I help you?" Strange cars? Note the reg number and try to make sure the driver has seen that you've clocked his registration plate!!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
Ok, I don't lock the back door when I am in my back yard, but if I don't immediately lock the doors after entering or leaving the house then I would probably forget and they could be left unlocked for days.
My front door opens straight from the pavement, so someone could be in and out in seconds if they were cheeky enough to risk it!
When I lived in Hebden Bridge I got chatting to an elderly woman from 3 houses away in our little cobbled backstreet. She was bemoaning the fact that she hardly knew anyone there then. She told me that 70 years earlier she had been great friends with the family that used to live where I was living. They routinely walked in and out of each other's houses without knocking, to borrow sugar, milk etc.!
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classic33
Leg End Member
Ask that round here of late and the chances are you'll get a delivery meant for elsewhere. Nights it'd be takeaway deliveries.
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Dirk
If 6 Was 9
Our doors are never locked when we are at home.
Quite often I've gone out and forgot to lock them.
We went up country for a week, a couple of years ago, and only realised that we'd left the front door open after we'd got back. The Postie had opened the door, as he usually does, and left two parcels in the hall for us.
Quite often I've gone out and forgot to lock them.
We went up country for a week, a couple of years ago, and only realised that we'd left the front door open after we'd got back. The Postie had opened the door, as he usually does, and left two parcels in the hall for us.
PaulSB
Squire
Five other houses have a spare key to our house and vice versa. Doesn't happen so much these days but years ago it was common to go on holiday and come back to find notes in the kitchen like:
"Borrowed the hoover. Thanks"
"I owe you a bag of sugar"
Etc. Etc.
Folk would pop in, borrow what they needed and leave a note. It wasn't unheard of for people who didn't have a key to get it from someone who did and help themselves!!!
It's a close and friendly community.
"Borrowed the hoover. Thanks"
"I owe you a bag of sugar"
Etc. Etc.
Folk would pop in, borrow what they needed and leave a note. It wasn't unheard of for people who didn't have a key to get it from someone who did and help themselves!!!
It's a close and friendly community.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I have forgotten to lock the doors when I go out often.
Mr WD is a bit paronoid about locking everything. He does come from sparkbrook though, so that says everything.
Mr WD is a bit paronoid about locking everything. He does come from sparkbrook though, so that says everything.
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Dirk
If 6 Was 9
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
We are currently selling my MIL's house (she died last year)
we have several keys - probably for nearby houses that she was 'looking after'
No idea what key belongs to who!!!
or even if this is right
we have several keys - probably for nearby houses that she was 'looking after'
No idea what key belongs to who!!!
or even if this is right
