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Needy neighbour; again

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 20:14

Update:

She now has a bike.
No escape, as she can keep up when I try to get away!
(Feel sure she has never taken a Cycling Proficiency Test.....)

But in between dodging her (in and out, in and out, in and out),
I had a much better Saturday this week - I went to a book signing and met
Sara Davies (Dragons' Den) - and ended up discussing boob sizes and being a very late starter at crochet.

The I drove through the countryside in the sunshine singing Barbra Streisand,

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:20

So Sara Davies - was that following the Saturday Live interview this morning with the Rev Richard Coles etc. Sarah Badie (so?) swerving off into weird convo about boobs??

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:20

Nickie Badie??

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:22

Nikki Bedi (totally ignoring the point of your post maybe 🤔)

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 20:30

I heard part of the Radio 4 interview - and when I met her, she told me they had done by phone in the Manager's Office (back room) of the Crafters Companion store where the signing was due to start from 10:30.
She admired my scarf and I told he I mainly wear them for cover, and we did make a compariosn as she pointed out her "lack of". It was a nice exchange, and she is lovely.
I am not a "crafter" but recently discovered the store and buy yarn and pens,that's all. I was there the other day and saw the poster, so went back this morning (about 10 miles from me). I got her book and she signed it of course, and am on page 70 already.

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 20:32

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:20

So Sara Davies - was that following the Saturday Live interview this morning with the Rev Richard Coles etc. Sarah Badie (so?) swerving off into weird convo about boobs??

Not quite sure what you mean but I think I have explained above.

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OvOvO · 30/04/2022 20:33

Oh my!

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:43

There was a really weird part in the interview where they asked her to keep still as she was banging her microphone - it sounded like she was knitting. Then Nikki went on about being heterosexual but she still thought they were nice boobs or something?? It was all a bit odd. I’m sure a bra was mentioned earlier as well. It was early but I’m sure I didn’t imagine it… I couldn’t really believe my ears 😳

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 20:47

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:43

There was a really weird part in the interview where they asked her to keep still as she was banging her microphone - it sounded like she was knitting. Then Nikki went on about being heterosexual but she still thought they were nice boobs or something?? It was all a bit odd. I’m sure a bra was mentioned earlier as well. It was early but I’m sure I didn’t imagine it… I couldn’t really believe my ears 😳

Ah right. I only caught part of it (Strictly, and her favourite song from the series), That sounds strange. Maybe boobs were the theme of the day. And mine are really the only reason I wear scarves.

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 20:51

Link here

At 21:28. I didn’t imagine it! Now I’m going to have to search the French expression she used…

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 21:09

"embonpoint"

bosom, decotellage I think....
But someone was wanting to sound a bit too clever I think.

I think they could see her, and maybe the wires that were making the clicking noise, were hanging in the way, and this was also in the area of her chest.... ? So she mad e a joke of it, that did not translate well to radio. (But she is/seems very down to earth anyway.) She was probably also rushed, as the book-signing was coming up.

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 30/04/2022 21:19

In a hurry to meet you and cheer you up @LoveMyPiano and make your day with your neighbour situation going on. 😉I think I’ve missed your posts about her - unless she’s the neighbour who was hoping you’d do her gardening and cleaning?? I did like the sound of Sara Davies though and I may check her out on the Dragons 🙂

Inklingpot · 30/04/2022 22:27

For god’s sake.

Everyone on here knows you’re the poster who continually has problems with her neighbour. We all know that there are MH issues involved (yours and theirs). You have posted repeatedly about all of it on here for years and MNHQ have discussed your posts with you.

Every few months you will post a detailed and angsty thread about your neighbour, many posters will pitch in with advice and you will post a lot of replies about how you can’t possibly take any of the advice given, yet you will continue to post threads asking for advice pretending that you have NO IDEA what people are talking about when they recognise you (again).

ParquetFloor · 30/04/2022 23:01

Inklingpot · 30/04/2022 22:27

For god’s sake.

Everyone on here knows you’re the poster who continually has problems with her neighbour. We all know that there are MH issues involved (yours and theirs). You have posted repeatedly about all of it on here for years and MNHQ have discussed your posts with you.

Every few months you will post a detailed and angsty thread about your neighbour, many posters will pitch in with advice and you will post a lot of replies about how you can’t possibly take any of the advice given, yet you will continue to post threads asking for advice pretending that you have NO IDEA what people are talking about when they recognise you (again).

Indeed.

FlibbertyGiblets · 30/04/2022 23:05

ParquetFloor · 30/04/2022 23:01

Indeed.

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yarp

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 23:15

Inklingpot · 30/04/2022 22:27

For god’s sake.

Everyone on here knows you’re the poster who continually has problems with her neighbour. We all know that there are MH issues involved (yours and theirs). You have posted repeatedly about all of it on here for years and MNHQ have discussed your posts with you.

Every few months you will post a detailed and angsty thread about your neighbour, many posters will pitch in with advice and you will post a lot of replies about how you can’t possibly take any of the advice given, yet you will continue to post threads asking for advice pretending that you have NO IDEA what people are talking about when they recognise you (again).

Have you actually read this (my) post?
It is meant to be light-hearted.

BUT - I have certainly not posted about her for "years" - and have actually only posted about the trouble she causes me twice - and once about my "messy friend".
One separate post about her, more about the Christening and Godmother dilemma but that did not include much of the backstory.

MNHQ have certainly NOT discussed my posts with me - I have no idea why you think that.

If you are frustrated by it seeming that I did not follow the advice (which is not the same as ignoring), I can only apologise.

Do you have the right person?

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 23:48

ParquetFloor · 30/04/2022 23:01

Indeed.

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Oh, the herd mentality.
(Why?)

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LoveMyPiano · 30/04/2022 23:50

FlibbertyGiblets · 30/04/2022 23:05

yarp

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Wha is that word? Is it Yes/Yep....?
But really, why bother.

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milkyaqua · 30/04/2022 23:55

You do tend to post re problems that are quite soluble, but when posters provide simple straightforward solutions out comes a quite florid backstory about why each of those solutions is impossible for you to implement. I am still recovering from the meal-time issue with the piano-keeping neighbour and all the weirdness surrounding cooking and food. This woman may be a separate or a related issue, and hard to deal with very clearly, but the complications and the refusal to actually do anything that would change the situation are very familiar.

AgentMagenta · 30/04/2022 23:55

😮 Hot Fuzz!

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LoveMyPiano · 01/05/2022 00:06

milkyaqua · 30/04/2022 23:55

You do tend to post re problems that are quite soluble, but when posters provide simple straightforward solutions out comes a quite florid backstory about why each of those solutions is impossible for you to implement. I am still recovering from the meal-time issue with the piano-keeping neighbour and all the weirdness surrounding cooking and food. This woman may be a separate or a related issue, and hard to deal with very clearly, but the complications and the refusal to actually do anything that would change the situation are very familiar.

I am sorry if you have been affected/still recovering.
(Sarcasm has been noted.)

They are familiar I am sure, but accusations about "posting for years" (I only joined in May last year) and MNHQ speaking to me when they most definitely have not, are wide of the mark.

Florid? Really.... Is there a word limit nowadays.

I have not "refused to do anything" - just (fwiw) pointed out that is is not as straighforward as it must seem from the outside.

Did you also miss the light-heartedness of this initial post?
I would never have dreamt of asking advice about escaping from her now she has a bike.....Besides, she would never keep up with me!

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PAFMO · 01/05/2022 00:17

Have you perhaps mistaken Mumsnet for a blog hosting platform?

milkyaqua · 01/05/2022 00:18

Yes, I can see it is in fact a report of a nice uplifting encounter, and you only mention the neighbour and bike in passing and in a joking manner - but I also think it could as easily have been posted in the current thread you have, rather than starting a new post like an entry in one's journal. I am glad you had a good day and felt happy. I have enjoyed many of your posts. But I was pointing out that others are not incorrect when saying these situations you write about go nowhere, because you have a reason - some valid, many not - for why every suggested change is impossible for you to make.

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LoveMyPiano · 01/05/2022 00:37

milkyaqua · 01/05/2022 00:18

Yes, I can see it is in fact a report of a nice uplifting encounter, and you only mention the neighbour and bike in passing and in a joking manner - but I also think it could as easily have been posted in the current thread you have, rather than starting a new post like an entry in one's journal. I am glad you had a good day and felt happy. I have enjoyed many of your posts. But I was pointing out that others are not incorrect when saying these situations you write about go nowhere, because you have a reason - some valid, many not - for why every suggested change is impossible for you to make.

You are right - I shouldn't have done it.

I don't understand though, why you are feeling the need to point out that "others are not incorrect".
Again, the power of the plural. Not a tactic I like, or employ.

Changes HAVE been made - the bike has put a bit of a spanner in the works.
But any advice for me to stay inside behind locked doors and closed curtains, was as extreme as telling me that I should "simply" move.
Some of the changes are impossible (for me, under the circustances).

I did want to keep it away from the current thread - as no-one (including me) would want to read though all that again (my ramblings, not the replies/comments).

A light-hearted catchup felt harmless. Wrong again.

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Skiptheheartsandflowers · 01/05/2022 00:38

Well, personally I have no clue what this is all about. The initial post doesn't really tell me. Nice if you're in the club. Why not explain the situation? Or link to a previous thread?

(Clearly I'm not part of 'everybody'.)

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LoveMyPiano · 01/05/2022 00:38

PAFMO · 01/05/2022 00:17

Have you perhaps mistaken Mumsnet for a blog hosting platform?

Oh, does it matter?

See my explanation above.

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