My attic
I have lived in my house for over 4 years but I have only been in my attic once, and that was when I first moved in. I have never liked attics and I hate those folding aluminium ladders that make that nails-down-a-blackboard guillotine sound and do their best to take your head off when you open the hatch.

I know there is stuff up there that needs to be cleared, and I think squirrels have got in and they need to be gassed (or charged rent) but I just can’t face it. When I went up there 4 years ago I had the intention or removing anything left by the previous owners, but the light bulb woke up a swarm of flies and what with the spooky old toys it all got a bit too Amityville horror for my liking so I left it for another day.

I was considering having another go this weekend. Perhaps I should take my camera and do my own “Most Haunted”. Can I borrow someone’s spirit guide?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:02, 9 replies)

Don't do it this weekend.
Attics get very hot in the summer, so if it had flies before, it'll likely as not have a swarm of them now. Plus working up there will be really uncomfortable.

And, anyway: wouldn't it be nicer to be outside?

Leave it until a rainy Sunday in October.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:08, closed)

You're a wise man Enzyme
i'll leave it for now (or another 4 years)
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:16, closed)

Yep.
Cleverly, I didn't specify the year in which this rainy Sunday ought to be.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:23, closed)

Might I recommend this
www.amazon.co.uk/Whisky-definitive-scotch-bourbon-whiskey/dp/0751344346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277389002&sr=8-1

as your spirit guide....
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:17, closed)

Ba-Dum TISH!

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:18, closed)

I surely don't know what you mean ;)

(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:58, closed)

When buying a new house, you must put a box in the attic that is not opened until you move again
and even then it must only be opened to go "Oo! Look! There's those things that we have!", and then closed again.

It's the LAW.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:25, closed)

It's going to be a cracking weekend weather wise
Get some mates round, have a barby and a few sherberts.

Never mind the attic.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:27, closed)

Awww....it's nice that you assume I have mates

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:52, closed)

Can you wait till next month?
I'll have moved out by then.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 17:12, closed)