Spanish grandma en route and friend still in the shop thread #4

[Wattyyyy]

I can't believe this is the fourth thread.

To summarise: CFN have seemingly done a disappearing act, my friend is now OUTSIDE the shop but still talking to the shop owner man.

I'm waiting on the wine I can see in her hand.

How is already on page 13! I can't keep up!

14 now!

Just caught up with all 4 threads in 1 sitting and feel like my eyes are gonna fall out of my head. Totally worth it.

@iMogster if you click the three little dots at the bottom right of any post and then choose customise, then if on a mobile device, select the desktop site, you should see a list of options. One of them is: highlight OP posts or something similar. Then you can choose a colour by clicking on drop down menu!

Zoya I've completely misunderstood the cancel the cheque thing! Good to know now!

Thenightsky not sure which one was first then. Maybe I was in the Brideszilla thread and people referred to (and explained) the Maui one and I'm now mixing them up in my head. I only knew second hand. Thanks for clarification, with the amount of times these references get thrown away, I really should know it by now! Lol

Jg1 is that about the Mexican neighbor thief? Or something like that? I missed that one

If now somebody could explain the penguin bollards, I'd feel up to date with MN's legends

This is definitely all Kirsty Allsop's fault, Sarah Beeny at least understands building regs and planning permission. She'd be pulling her very best you're an idiot face if she was in the room with anyone suggesting what CFN's have done.

Do the OP and the structural engineer fall in love whilst working out load balancing calculations Sprinkle?

I'm confused OP as you posted recently that you had just moved house but apparently now you haven't moved, just bought your long rented flat.

@SprinkleOfInsanity the planning bid was female!!!! You're everything that's wrong with the film industry these days....no decent female roles!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@PunjanaTea you are my kind of people

I definitely picked the right day to 'officially' join rather than just lurk! I have pink

Made it to the end! Phew. I think you should sunbathe NUDE in front of the window/door (dwindow) and see what happens...

Punjana absolutely, and he keeps 'forgetting' to take measurements, and MUST come through OPs house each time, and one time he slips and falls in the perfectly placed paddling pool, and needs to strip off and be towelled down, and sit in his sexy boxers on OPs sofa until his clothes are dried very slowly by a pathetic breeze (because the garden is surrounded on all 4 sides..) oh my.. I'd happily play the OP

Obviously you need to plan a garden soirée, invite the CFN, then keep asking them to pop back to theirs for things (like a spare corkscrew?) then watch them have to go back through yours and round each time with all the neighbour's looking.

Hell's teeth! I've just got here and this 4th thread is already up to page 14!

Guinness Book of Records Material if I ever saw it!

I wonder if the horror of the patio doors in a listed building will be picked up by Wattyyyy's local paper and then hit the nationals and possibly world news - I will have to keep my eye on CNN. (I suspect that newspapers have paid "snitches" in important places, like courts, hospitals and planning offices . . . )

^ that was my attempt at creative place marking.
Now need to go back through thread 3, by which time we'll probably be on thread 6 or something.

@gingergenius I was trying to balance up the male/female cast, as obviously there is a need for females to ply OP/friend/Spanish grandma etc, but for the female aspect, I suspect Tilda Swindon would fucking NAIL the role of Planning person

*Swinton

Where is your friend?!?

My theory is, Spanish Grandma needs picking up from Heathrow, but both op and friend too pissed to drive after drinking shop man's freeby wine, so shop man has offered to drive op and friend to airport to meet G'ma. For some strange reason shop man is played by Sid James in my head!

So, in the film of this, we also need to cast:
Building regs man Peter Capaldi
Insurance assessor Matthew Macfadyen
Structural engineer Liam Neeson
Solicitor David Tennant
English heritage rep Annette Badland
Architectural historian Hugh Grant

Run out of ideas for the builder and crew.

MissFitton that mental image just made me laugh out loud. I can picture Olivia Coleman's exasperation.

What If the CFN have come back and it's all kicked off 😵😵😵 cone back op

Got to place mark now, I'll be up all hours feeding the newborn and I'm too invested in this after reading the previous threads

We need to make up a part for Idris Elba too. Just because, you know.. it's Idris Elba.