I'm helping his neighbour put in a level base for his new shed.
Given that he's 80 me helping him means I'm actually doing everything.

But that's the kind of nice guy I am.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:19, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

I like this
Neighbourly spirit in London?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:20, Reply)

I do a lot of stuff for him.
Admittedly some of it was to benefit me, like cutting down his tree, and trimming back his laurel, but he borrows our gazebo when he has parties, and we go along and drink all his wine. So it works out okay.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:21, Reply)

Excellent work
My neighbours are lovely. I've ended up with free flagstones to build my patio, free sand and 150 free bricks to complete my raised beds
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:22, Reply)

That's good of them.
They're redoing a cafe down the road and they lifted all the old tiles off the front. This old boy noticed them doing it and went and collected them all to use under his shed. As I said, he's 80 and had open heart surgery a year or two back, I told him off for being a silly bugger.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:24, Reply)

I thought so, yes
Patio is only temporary until we get our extension built so I didn't want to spend anything on it

She is coming round for wine tomorrow
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:26, Reply)

Something in my head has broken so that several times when I have read 'patio' my brain has made it rhyme with 'ratio'

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:35, Reply)

Patio plays for Italy

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:41, Reply)

'trimming back his laurel' lols.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:23, Reply)

Its against my beleafs

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:24, Reply)

I don't like doing it but you have to make a doken gesture from thyme to thyme.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:28, Reply)

A doken gesture? Like a Dream Warrior?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:30, Reply)

Every year I have a similar thing with my neighbour.
He's about 65 and each spring we prune back the 2 trees that lie between our gardens. That involves muggins going up the step ladders and clambering right up into the trees themselves while he holds the ladders.

To give you an idea of how high the trees are, when I'm in them I can see into my bedroom windows.

To his credit, he takes the crap to the tip, so I can't complain.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 21 May 2014, 10:29, Reply)

That sounded like you were complaining a bit

(Bazongaloid, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:32, Reply)

Just a tiny little bit
But he's 20+ years older than me and a foot shorter, so he'd never manage it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 21 May 2014, 10:36, Reply)

I had an odd conversation with the neighbours at the bottom of our garden whilst 10' up in my pear tree with a saw

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 21 May 2014, 10:33, Reply)