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by deana24 @ 2008-04-29 - 08:32:52

Last night's meeting went very well.

Everyone showed up and we all want gates for our road entrance and we're going to get quotes for getting the road surfaced because we've loads of pot holes and our slabs are all knackered.

Apparently kids have been using the ginnel for all sorts and it's just providing easy access for opportunistic thieves and ne'er do wells.

Our nextdoor neighbour, Adele, is still seething about having her car broken into. She managed to run through every violent crime ever committed in the area in the hour we were there. Poor Laura, who has just moved in, looked most alarmed.

Adele's had a cctv camera fitted on her house now. It's already got security lights. It's like living next door to Colditz but I don't mind, saves us buying anything. It lights up like Blackpool everytime Henry the cat wanders home.

She was talking about building a watch tower at the bottom of the garden we can man with machine guns.

I think she's only joking.

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 08:35

A sad reflection on the world today isn't it?

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 08:45

It is. As Christine said: 'My god, we're going to be living in a gated community.'

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 08:53

I'm so glad I moved to France - it's not crime free but nothing like the UK

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 09:02

Oh I'm jealous now.

It's the lack of respect for people and their homes. Why would you take someone's garden heaters? It's just petty and spiteful and mean-spirited.

I blame Thatcher; for deconstructing society and encouraging people to believe they need things not each other.

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 09:12

Respect - my favourite word. It's a shame it's going to be archaic :(

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blacksheep63blacksheep63 pro
2008-04-29 @ 09:13

i'm with you there Deana, Mrs T (not singlehandedly of course) also instilled a belief that the ownership of things - especially property - was the only aim in life. there is 'no such thing as society', of community in effect. However, Mrs T is now history, we have had a decade of labour since major hung up his underpants and i don't see much improvement. the answer lies in radical changes to education policy but i doubt there is the political will for that.
i am impressed that you are coming together - it is the only way to tackle anti-social behaviour and petty crime. good luck with it!

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 09:27

The problem has been a shift in world politics to the right. I know Thatcher isn't wholly to blame but she's the personification of where the rot set in and nothing breaks my heart more than the destruction of a credible left. If anything demonstrates how democracy doesn't work New labour is it. It's just the same rubbish in a different frock but that doesn't mean I won't take great delight in her end.

The biggest bloody farce is getting flyers through the door from local electioneering Tories claiming to be the party of people on low incomes, with cars, who smoke and drink.

What's happened to the world?!?!??!

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chassychassy [Member]
2008-04-30 @ 10:24

We may have had a decade of labour, but the progeny of Thatcher's anti-social capitalist dream have spawned a whole generation raised on avarice.

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-30 @ 20:36

Aint that the Truth.

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chassychassy [Member]
2008-04-30 @ 10:37

Unless they were eco-activists.

I had a hedge-hog boot scraper, given to me as a xmas present, taken from the porch which is out of view from the road. Either intruders or the postman, and he's nice so I don't think for a moment it was him. Perhaps it was taken by a hedgehog collecter, funny folk them.

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-30 @ 20:39

I used to have a hideous china alsatian outside my flat door in Leith. It was sinfully poor taste and some bugger nicked that, from a locked stairwell just before Xmas. I like to think the paperboy's mother was less than impressed.

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Old-NickOld-Nick pro
2008-04-29 @ 08:38

There are so many spotlights in the gardens where I live its untrue. Standing outside having a ciggie you can tell where the foxes are by the light show moving from garden to garden.

I think the foxes enjoy it.

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 08:46

maybe it helps them hunt squirrels and rats and sundry other bits of mammal scruff.

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bunnybunbunbunbunnybunbunbun [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 09:25

we have got one of those lights that work on their own in our garden but because it kept going on and waking us up it is just unplugged all the time now so I hope that the burglars do not realise. If they will steal your garden heaters I wonder if you buy some gates if you will need to put an alarm on them so they do not get stolen too!

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 09:31

I think they will probably get tangled up in the barbed wire Adele is going to run across the top before they get their paws on anything.

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MissyMouseMissyMouse [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 15:11

Adele sounds like she will fight all the way for the gates. You really need people like this on the old residents association. We have one here and some times I just want to scream at dear Rose who lives up the road. I doubt she sleeps as she logs every movement of every night and day....now that is all well and good but not when we are there to talk about other things and the reading of her log must take at least an hour!

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deana24deana24 [Member]
2008-04-29 @ 15:42

You are right. She is fearsome.

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