Re: What's going on outside your house?

by NDN1984 Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:10 pm

Not sure if said seagull got ran over or what, but horribly a dead one that was mashed was in the middle of the road. Luckily the street cleaner has tidied it up, bit you can see part of its claw. Horrible it was.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:46 pm

by cosmictanya Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:11 pm

Well that is just grimly horrible. Butterfield gives a much nicer general impression of Midland living. I think of the midlands as a place where people are always gardening and making their houses tidy, or tootling about in retro cars, or supporting charity shops. Now shattered by the knowledge that midland councils employ people to clean mashed up birds off roads while leaving body parts behind.

by NDN1984 Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:15 pm

It is a seaside town that ends with mare I live in. Be glad to get out there (moving in with my Mum in Bristol the end of this year) and I kind of miss the Midlands, especially after what's happened.

Just been out for an evening walk, and got a pair of idiots shouting at the end of our street. Like go away. Haven't you got homes to go? Throw in a man probably 60+ with a girlfriend who couldn't have been much older than myself!

by cosmictanya Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:19 pm

I know Bristol quite well.

The British seaside is a mystery to me. I can never remember whether it’s Mare or Clevedon/den I’ve been to. Whichever of the two has a pier over some mud billed as a beach, near a Waitrose, or possibly a Safeway - the floor of which was the only place to cool down on a tropically humid day. I’ve never seen so many floral tents being worn as dresses. It was real American tan tights territory round there.

by NDN1984 Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:38 pm

cosmictanya wrote:I know Bristol quite well.

The British seaside is a mystery to me. I can never remember whether it’s Mare or Clevedon/den I’ve been to. Whichever of the two has a pier over some mud billed as a beach, near a Waitrose, or possibly a Safeway - the floor of which was the only place to cool down on a tropically humid day. I’ve never seen so many floral tents being worn as dresses. It was real American tan tights territory round there.

That's probably Clevedon. Weston's town centre is not posh enough for a Waitrose. Ironically our one is at the back of a council estate next to an ASDA!!