Do you have a crappy terrace with a yard? Ooooh I would love a crappy terrace with a yard

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It's very patchily tarmacked and is full of potholes and lined with dogshit, if it helps?

You could have had our old one, badly concreted with cracks, falling down shed and - best of all- my clapped out old Audi 80 parked by the back gate going rusty.

Oh go on - I really want to win... The flowers have mostly died so the pots look really scruffy and the neighbour's kids are always ringing the door bell asking if ds1's coming out to play. Then they all hang around in the teeny weeny yard making lots of noise and eating tons of sweets. And talk very loudly about going to the chippy.

Surely that all counts for something??!!

I have a crappy yard with no terrace and I live in the sarf and have an alley that runs behind the yard (extra points I feel). Also, the fence (around the crappy yard) is only solid half way up and then trellis-like on top which means me and the kids get to see the neighbours in their yards all the way down the street if we ever go into the yard.

and our neighbour had a homeless bloke sleeping in her shed for days before any of us noticed (extra points)

or even the kids and I!

Has to be me and the kids in crappy terrace land, fis

yes I must admit your potholes are probably giving your terrace a slight winning margain

Noooo fis, I mean "me and the kids" is correct crappy-terrace-speak, not "the kids and I".

Your homeless-man-in-shed trumps my potholes any day

doh!

yep - homeless man in shed pretty much beats me as well. Although everyone on our terrace street got their car wing mirrors smashed up the other night - it was like an episode of the Bill the next day with tons of police taking statements from us and telling us they couldn't do anything... Does that get me back in the running.

Oh yes and the neighbours over the road have got about 3 white vans, all knackered, rusting away on the road.

BTDTGTT, dot - new mirror cost a lot . (So did the aerial )

Your white vans on blocks are worth a good few points though!

oooh - I've just booked an appointment though to see a 4 bed house - WITH A GARDEN - IT'S A SEMI!!!!! About 4 streets away - the wrong way (i.e. towards the scummy bit not away from) but on a nice quiet white van free road. And we can afford it!!!!!!!! (Dot gets horribly excited while her calm dp mentions things like fees and the fact that we can't really afford it and we haven't even got our house valued yet...).

AND aren't you getting married as well, dot ?

Aaarrggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! (3 weeks tomorrow!!)

Well we had dead gro bags- surely that counts? no terrace, and we were in a posh village so added points for bringing tone down I feel.

And- and maybe this is even better than the scrappy Audi- all of the gates opened on to a communal 8Back* yard about 50 metres square PLSL. Lovely.

South also, Somerset village

(And our last house had an alley and OK, no back yeard but an entire estate of ASBO bearers! I mean, is that kudos otr what? driunkis and syringes in our alley every night, they even strated a fire that caught the wall and just missed DS2's wooden extension bedroom.

(OK, back to the back yrad, bit less deadly

(Have garden with swings now and fruit tress. And mud. lots of mud)

oooh I know which way you mean dot! that's true suburbia y'know!

3 weeks tomorrow, dot??? Coo!

Rhubarb and I were talking about you 2 yesterday and wondering when it was - I suppose that means the Northern meet-up the Saturday before the wedding is out of the question?

yes i live in a crappy terrace with a crappy back yard that cats crap in (not mine, dont know where they come from) and all the rubbish from the street blows in front of the front door(no gate).
Front wall leaning over, full of kids climbing on my back walls using my outside toilet, climbing onto the dustbin,kicking footballs from the alley that our house backs on to.

The view from my back bedroom is more crappy terraced houses with yards, neighbours in their yards getting drunk, screaming at the kids, having barbeques in their back yards, fighting in the alley, at the weekend we get courting teenager couples (yuk) and people knock on my front door and say things like "Me mam wants to know do you have a spare onion".

Our car has had its wheels slashed,windows broken, eggs thrown on it oh and we also live right in front of a chippy and next to that is a bakery where all the work men congregate and eat their dinner outside, oh and my one of my sisters lives on the same street and we always know when each other are having an argument with our DH,s cos our kids run in each others house and tell them and my other sister lives at the back of me and we always know when she,s having an argument cos 9 times out of 10 the police get called, my mum and dad live across the road and my brother at the back.

Phew.....if you,ve got through all that you deserve a medal, now do i win first prize?

lol at "spare onion"

Ok, jenk, you win hands down (even if you also have an indoor lav )

Oooh only just seen do you mean to tell me that ive won the terraced house with the most crappiest yard award?

Brill, wait till i tell the kids in the neighbourhood!

Oh forgot to add yesterday, we have scaffolding up along our crappy row and the kids (not mine ) climb up it and try to climb into open windows at the top, was sitting eating my tea yesterday when a pair of legs appeared at the top of my front room window, then a cheeky face which belonged to a girl a couple of streets away!!!!

Scrubbersville, but not a dull moment !!!!

lol jenk, you win hands down!

I have a terrace with a yard up north but it's not crappy, it's lovely. It has 5 beds, 2 baths, a big yard and a small garden. Can you tell I'm trying to sell it? Anyone want to buy it? Here it is www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-12200699.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy

I have a crappy terrance with a garden, but it backs onto loads of other crappy terraces. And its in Hull so that counts for something. And my house fronts onto the street so when people walk past my window I can hear their conversations and keep thinking they are going to come and knock on my door! And cats pee/poo in my garden all the time!

A crappy 'Terrence' Smurfgirl?

I would suggest trading him in for a better one!