Neihbours, drivers and keepers

22 May

We sat and tried to watch that show on telly about the young kids and their driving skills, or lack thereof! After ten minutes we gave up. I don’t have a lot of patience with these youngsters at the best of times, but was willing to give it a go last night. The idea was that the subjects didn’t know they were being filmed while out in the car, yet in one scene we clearly saw a camera on the bonnet of one of the cars. It was at that point we gave up on it.

The girl being filmed has already had three crashes in cars before filming began, and if she was behaving the way she was on that show, it’s not at all surprising. What I am puzzled about though, is how she gets insurance to drive at all. As for the lad, well, he was pretty awful too. He tried to park his car in a fairly large parking space but couldn’t do so properly; so he left it parked at an angle. When he returned to the car to drive home he clunked the car next to him while reversing. It makes me wonder just how they managed to pass their driving tests. The lad had four attempts before he passed. It makes you wonder what those examiners were thinking!

Last week we had problems with the man in the flat above us. The area housing officer came around earlier this week and proposed that we had new security locks fitted to bock’s main door. Now of us objected so the idea was recommended up the chain for auctioning. At that point it has come to a shuddering stop. What the housing officer didn’t think about was that if our block of four had such a lock fitted, then all the other blocks of four had to be done too. The cost would be prohibitive so I can’t see it getting done now.

Mark, the man upstairs is still in hospital and is likely to stay there for some time yet. The longer he is in there, the longer it will be before the council can get him out and a new tenant in. While we’re all waiting, nerves are getting tighter as we wait for yet another attempt for some yobs to get in there.

Over Saturday and Sunday I got well over 200 photos taken. A lot of them were of pub and real ale signs, which means my keeper figure is fairly high; 52 out to the 200+ will be up loaded Flickr in a short while. The main point of going to Chesterfield on Sunday was to shoot that twisted church spire, so here it is from a different veiw …

 

And today’s funny is …

I went to the doctor for my yearly checkup,as he was examining me he commented on my pale complexion. “I know” the patient said “It’s my high blood pressure, it’s in the family. “Your mom’s side, or dad’s side?” questioned the doctor. Neither, my wife’s. “What?” the doctor said “that can’t be, how can you get it from your wife’s family?” “Oh yeah, , why don’t you come meet them sometime!”