tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post9010235699560250583..comments2023-04-24T22:43:27.926+01:00Comments on Spindrifting South African sea monkey: There's an arsonist on my stoep.pohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-52441919910385063522008-10-31T21:38:00.000+00:002008-10-31T21:38:00.000+00:00I met the arsonist! on the street. He asked us for...I met the arsonist! on the street. He asked us for 30p. I said no. Call me a bitch but that's what you get for pooing on my steps.pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-12819205691954983572008-10-31T08:58:00.000+00:002008-10-31T08:58:00.000+00:00Hi S: um, please dont send your housemate this way...Hi S: um, please dont send your housemate this way! Where do you live?<BR/><BR/>That ziploc story sounds a good one? you willing to share?pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-71439604355401208522008-10-31T03:33:00.000+00:002008-10-31T03:33:00.000+00:00Wow, if my crazy housemate were to become homeless...Wow, if my crazy housemate were to become homeless, she could take up residence in your stairwell. She routinely tries to burn the house down by cooking empty pots, and this summer she was down with pooping on paper towels and tossing them away in ziplock baggies (long story)... She would be a definite improvement in your neighborhood. (She's also VERY hard of hearing so her sleep would be largely unaffected.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-45148497093450373062008-10-29T15:32:00.000+00:002008-10-29T15:32:00.000+00:00tamara: what is it with all these crazy neighbours...tamara: what is it with all these crazy neighbours? No wonder they could write a whole soap about neighbours.pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-58936689895732365072008-10-29T09:38:00.000+00:002008-10-29T09:38:00.000+00:00Wow... my neighbours suddenly don't seem so bad. E...Wow... my neighbours suddenly don't seem so bad. Except the child-abusing ones.Tamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13875207633073348136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-36647513725322916092008-10-28T20:44:00.000+00:002008-10-28T20:44:00.000+00:00hiya sass, wow i think bad stuff can happen anywhe...hiya sass, wow i think bad stuff can happen anywhere, but Topanga sounds amazing, do you think they will give me a visa?pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-21534431346065605852008-10-28T17:50:00.000+00:002008-10-28T17:50:00.000+00:00nah, i say stay! that way you have plenty of mater...nah, i say stay! that way you have plenty of material for that book/screenplay/novel. <BR/>NOT!<BR/>seriously, i don't know how you stand it! though then again, i heard on the news while i was driving home tonight, a guy shot and killed a 4 year old by accident in my neighbourhood, while shooting after a fleeing cellphone thief! <BR/>eish! <BR/>i recommend you move to topanga. i really do. i recommend i do, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-32542133663227865272008-10-28T17:04:00.000+00:002008-10-28T17:04:00.000+00:00there's no way of spinning that that's not just ar...there's no way of spinning that that's not just arse. Fuck me, move.Dashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883470391407107077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-50064720771768758532008-10-28T15:23:00.000+00:002008-10-28T15:23:00.000+00:00Amazing to hear that! And there I was thinking tha...Amazing to hear that! And there I was thinking that Leam Spa was a lovely little English villagey -type town...<BR/><BR/>Moving seems like a good choice given the alternative.. but then it's not easy, costs money and how can you be sure that the next place will be any better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-72085618250029872932008-10-28T14:53:00.000+00:002008-10-28T14:53:00.000+00:00P.S it is only South Leam that is like this, the N...P.S it is only South Leam that is like this, the North is lovely, but super posh, and I am thinking us dodgy Saffas will never be able to afford it, there is always Coventry... hahahahahahaha, something tells me Coventry will make South Leam seem like Utopia!pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-63544398904409121992008-10-28T14:49:00.000+00:002008-10-28T14:49:00.000+00:006000: agreed. I feel I have learned something abou...6000: agreed. I feel I have learned something about English culture that you do not realise in SA; people here have a tough time too. My parents live in Stevenage, a tough town as well, and the things I have heard there shock me. <BR/><BR/>Miss caught up: considering it.pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-30886685371158677242008-10-28T14:45:00.000+00:002008-10-28T14:45:00.000+00:00COuld be worse. You could live in Stoke.In many wa...COuld be worse. You could live in Stoke.<BR/>In many ways, Leamington is like an SA city: a vast difference in price, but not in geographical distance between the have's and have-not's.<BR/><BR/>I would, as several other readers have suggested, move.6000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10828090445653134789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-50413449398285071752008-10-28T14:42:00.000+00:002008-10-28T14:42:00.000+00:00Wow! I'd move... It doesn't sound pleasant at all....Wow! I'd move... It doesn't sound pleasant at all.Miss Caught Uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966613225709062968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-57867708905402941752008-10-28T13:25:00.000+00:002008-10-28T13:25:00.000+00:00J: hold the phone! your story sounds way more inte...J: hold the phone! your story sounds way more interesting than mine!<BR/><BR/><BR/>You are right though, we used to live in this village cut of from the world where nothing NOTHING happened. So far I prefer this insanity but I prefer to not be burned to death too!pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-38214940959254152262008-10-28T13:15:00.000+00:002008-10-28T13:15:00.000+00:00Geezus Kryste! I thought my crazy story of my alc...Geezus Kryste! I thought my crazy story of my alcoholic neighbor dying on my sidewalk while his crackhead girlfriend tried to break into my apartment was bad. You could move, but how fun could a safe neighborhood possibly be?jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17765475013667418772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-54135367211186897762008-10-28T13:12:00.000+00:002008-10-28T13:12:00.000+00:00dt: am considering it. Another problem is that I a...dt: am considering it. Another problem is that I am considering moving country...<BR/><BR/>ches: am considering it.pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-62879903011911959882008-10-28T13:08:00.000+00:002008-10-28T13:08:00.000+00:00PO...move back to SA. It's 30'C in Cape Town!! Un...PO...move back to SA. It's 30'C in Cape Town!! Unbelievable!Camhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05830748536656149930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-82491042923532139162008-10-28T12:48:00.000+00:002008-10-28T12:48:00.000+00:00On No Po - Yup it is time to move. I know it is a ...On No Po - Yup it is time to move. I know it is a bit of a pain in the backside - but you will be much happier elsewhere!Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18063153809616770308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-17761955261415026862008-10-28T11:27:00.000+00:002008-10-28T11:27:00.000+00:00Rox: that situation sounds rather similar to mine,...Rox: that situation sounds rather similar to mine, pretty awful!<BR/><BR/>kittycat and BB: yeah, we should move, but seeing as I havent found a job yet, we were going to wait til I found one so we could decide where to move to, like another part of town or another town altogether.<BR/><BR/>sleepyjane: that is a good point! But he may not rob us because we know where he lives! But the shops below our flats were robbed this weekend.pohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00711119384786965311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-9794319420508156462008-10-28T09:12:00.000+00:002008-10-28T09:12:00.000+00:00Moving seems like a rather good option for you rig...Moving seems like a rather good option for you right now...unless you like the smell of poo, crack and madness in the morning ;)<BR/><BR/>Start looking for a new flat today.Janine / Being Brazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05238202392512794465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-39126762273429112742008-10-28T09:01:00.000+00:002008-10-28T09:01:00.000+00:00Wow. I third the comments. Move. You never know wh...Wow. I third the comments. Move. You never know when said druggie will need money for his next hit and you could be robbed or something! That's so scary!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-4143573620945101882008-10-28T09:00:00.000+00:002008-10-28T09:00:00.000+00:00You said it - you really really really really real...You said it - you really really really really really need to move! God, I don't know how you've even managed up till now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03308937957255252058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006461670144722868.post-68787004127411819712008-10-28T08:57:00.000+00:002008-10-28T08:57:00.000+00:00Move, seriously. Although it was nothing compared ...Move, seriously. <BR/><BR/>Although it was nothing compared to your arsonist crackhead pooer, I endured almost a year of utter hell in my old flat in Gardens. <BR/><BR/>In my first few weeks I had to fumigate twice for bed bugs (not before I had been bitten to shit and almost driven crazy), then the noise made itself heard... I'm talking about full-blown shabeen bashes in the bachelor flat next door to me, starting (yes, starting) at 4am and ending in the mid-morning with people having thrown up in the hallway and outside. Wonderful stuff indeed. <BR/><BR/>Added to that was a creepy old man next door, shit management, screaming matches in the early hours when neibours tried to complain about the noise... it was hell. My cats were a wreck and so was I. <BR/><BR/>Now I live in a great block, and aside from noisy Italians upstairs who sometimes have parties (which always end early) it's calm and peaceful, and the area is way cooler too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com