What happened to the poster who’s neighbours had a gymbalow in their garden.

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London, south London iirc.

neighbours built a garden “gym” which was being blatantly rented out . Poster was in contact with the council who seemed to be doing fuck all about it. This was years ago, it dragged on for years and wasn’t resolved the last I read. Is the poster still here, was the bungalow taken down?

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That was the thread that got me hooked on MN.

I often wonder about her thread whenever I see a new gymbalow go up in our estate.
I bet it's still there.

What made you think of that? Random thought last night?

I sometimes think of very old threads when they pop in my head. My favourite one was the bourbon on water penguin date. She gave an update years later when there was a similar dating thread and the OP mentioned her.

The thread that got me on mumsnet was about a women who put a tracker on her husbands car and hired a PI to see if he was cheating. I was hooked.

Think it was the stuff in the news about Captain Toms daughter being ordered to rip her fancy garden spa down which made me think of it.

Wasn't it MrsDeVere or a similar name? I think she moved house anyway in the end...

I keep thinking of the thread recently where the OP was mad at someone for chopping the tomatoes and carrots "incorrectly" Every time I cut a tomato now I think of her.

Sorry, no help with the gymbalow thread.

Bourbon on water penguin? Bourbon the drink or the biscuit? I am so intrigued by this it almost makes me want to start dating!

I remember the Penguin date, great thread.

Yes I’m pretty sure it was MrsDeVere. Absolutely lovely poster, and very funny too amidst the chaos.

The place in the Cotswolds, with the bird park.

Oh yes I remember that thread and also sometimes wonder whether it got resolved. She had a great posting style.

Oh if she’s moved house I guess we will never find out what happened! It probably is still there.

I'm so fucking using 'Gymbalow' in my everyday discourse!

Bourton on the Water.

Whenever I see Korean style food on a menu I think of the elderly Korean lady thread

@RumNotRun haha sorry for the confusion! As PPs have said it was Bourton on the water.

Although a bourbon penguin date sounds amazing!!

I remember the thread too. I think the neighbours moved into the gymbalow and rented out rooms in the house.

I also think about that traveller girl with kids who was desperate to get out of a terrible domestic violence situation.

She was terrified she'd be found wherever she went. It was a really long thread. Hope she's ok.

Ahh that makes more sense even if it's not as intriguing as a water penguin drinking bourbon and eating biscuits 😁

I remember a terrible one by a woman, her husband had some sort of dementia I think, and was being taken over by a family friend, does anyone remember that?