To be shocked at neighbour??

[DomesticDisgrace]

I was having a very rare chat with my downstairs neighbour, I'm in a duplex and she's in a flat underneath with her front door under the stairs to my place. Two very separate buildings really and you can hear absolutely nothing from one to the other.
We were talking about ovens and I was saying I'm a pretty useless cook but really been trying this year, something was said about what shelf is best and she said "because heat rises", at this stage DD was getting impatient and I just made a stupid joke about how that'll come in handy for me next winter (given that she lives underneath), not even true because I had my heating on loads this winter and I only said it out of silliness.

Well I've just gotten a text from her saying "Domestic, I've been thinking after our discussion earlier and I'm feeling a little hard done by if I'm honest. Perhaps we could have a chat later on and come up with the fairest way of dealing with the issue regarding heating"

What the actual fuck, I don't know what to say back but I really can't afford to pay her for having her heat on just because heat rises??

When you next attempt some cooking, try to get it to waft downstairs so she can smell. Then show her the shopping receipt and ask how to split fairly seeing as she took some of its essence?!

No? Thought not. Avoid she like the plague, she sounds very odd!

I know you shouldn't text anything back, but am I the only one who wishes you would so that we can see what the reply is?!

Just joking OP, avoid, avoid, avoid! This thread has really made me chuckle, some posters are just SO funny.

LOVE the idea of charging for the aroma of cooking smells!!!!!!!

We live on Duchy land. There are a lot of big rocks underneath us, apparently. Probably sending cold air up through our foundations.

On the basis that we don't own mineral and mining rights to our patch of land, that must by default make the Duchy responsible for all minerals and miney bits.

I am therefore, by the neighbour's logic, entitled to bill the Duchy for making our house cold.

I might try it. They're terribly nice. They keep giving the village bits of land for common use and everything. They might just pay up to keep good relations.

Haven't seen a a Padre Pio icon in yonks! My friend bought a second hand car years ago (90s) and it had a Padre Pio decal on the windscreen, she would cringe but she could never bear to peel it off

Well let's do the maths. Heat can't transfer from a cold body to a hot body. So she can only benefit if her flat is colder, or lose out if hers is hotter. If your flat is heated normally, it will be at the same temperature as hers. Therefore, there's no net heat loss. Furthermore, if the ceiling is normal (plasterboard, 4 in joists, floor boards and carpet) it will be a fairly good thermal insulator (likely better than a solid external wall). So tell her to stick it. She also has no legal claim.

squoosh, for shame! you are being totally unreasonable.

You should have made up that invoice in â?¬s.

De-yam, that should have come out as a euro sign. And I forgot the

Am delighted re. Padre Pio, as even before you mentioned her age I was visualising a woman called Fidelma (or possibly Assumpta), and a fervent member of the local Legion of Mary. The parish priest would give anything if she'd leave him alone after the 9 o'clock Mass.

I don't think she is mad, so much as a (specifically Irish?) type. Which might of course be the same thing, now that I think about it.

No her name is Concepta.

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Paint some scabs on the palms of your hands and tell her you've got a 'touch of the old stigmata there Assumpta' and she'll soon treat you differently, she'll even replace her picture of Padre Pio with one of you!

Actually Pedant, I think she should send her invoice in good old punts, none of these immoral Euros. We all know how loose and easy those Europeans are!

There's a Padre Pio shop three minutes walk away from me in Central London.

Ignore her.

I am charging you £800.00 for my contribution to your thread via this post.

I'll send you my PayPal details.

She's almost definitely an aspie. My son is quite similar, takes everything literally. She probably does think you are 'stealing' her heating now, but I don't think you will be able to persuade her otherwise, so yes better to disengage!

Is this her at 0.45?

Limited it pleases me greatly that Padre Pio maintains a presence even in the sinful, fleshpot known as London.

squoosh this is it

It's a bit odd. But live and let live. I don't think that's their philosophy btw, but it's mine.

The area is undergoing major regeneration and I guess that street will be next. If so, I anticipate massive pickets and wailings and flailings.

I think might be her actually, Lovecat - about 00:20 in. "When's he comin'?"