Preparing for a rude awakening!

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    Boghopper can I swap your 'damn thrush' for what I'm about to go through?

    Yesterday morning yellow markings had mysteriously appeared on the public footpath and drive ends in our avenue. Now, being as we're about to be converted to natural gas I thought it may be something to do with that, but no!

    The powers that be have decided to replace the concrete that is gradually breaking up, with more concrete. Being as everything that happens round here tends to begin at the crack of dawn, I'm preparing myself for a rude awakening, or should I say rude awakenings! THE DREADED ROAD DRILL! This combined with the speed that the labourers work, it's going to go on for weeks! :help:

    Ear plugs or move house? :scratch:
     
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    You'll love it Sheal, just think of the longer hours you can spend gardening instead of lazing around in bed:heehee:

    You can be out giving the boys a cup of tea too & sharing Manx tales of shipwrecking and pirate smuggling.

    Pretend that Johnny Depp is your cousin & you'll be the most poplier Essex girl on the Island:thumbsup:
     
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    Your imagination does run riot at times Ziggy! :heehee:

    If I feed them with cups of tea they'll never get anything done.

    I'd want Johnny Depp to be more than my cousin. :heehee: My Essex girl daughters have spent a few hours in the company of Mr. Depp. He was here on the island filming a few years ago and they were invited in for a chat with him. Very nice man apparently. :)
     
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      The horror of western life....:hapfeet: :yahoo:
       
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        If it is anything like around here 2 weeks after they have finished the next contractor will come along and dig it up again to do their work!
        Forward planning at its best with joined up thinking thrown in for good measure.
         
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          I thought you knew that there weren't any Manx tails! :heehee: :heehee:
           
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            "You've been living with the no tails for too long" - League of Gentlemen.
             
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              But Tubbs found one!!!
               
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              Nothing changes
              Years ago I lived in Military married quarters
              They came on the Monday to lay new tiled floors throughout the building
              Very nice (in its day)

              The following Monday the next contractor arrived to fit underfloor heating :-(

              I went to the military authorities with this, and suggested the tilers ceased work for a week and worked behind the underfloor installers
              I was treat with contempt, and as if I was daft

              Nothing changed it went on as it was, and we were all left for two years with damaged flooring but warm, I then left to live abroad
              No repairs to the floors were ever carried out

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