LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2017

Just goes to show what some people will do for money

 

My job for the past 14 years has been with a company that oversees group homes. I am one of managers, and have 5 homes to oversee. So one of the individuals living there, elderly, really got sick and hand to go to the hospital. My job is to notify the family, who never visited her in the 10 years I knew this women. They say to me, they'd like to visit her at the hospital, but have no car to get there, me--a nice person, say--ok I'll pick you up and take you and bring you back home, so I did. Few days later, the elderly women dies in the hospital at 12 NOON. I call the family to tell them, she passed at 12NOON. AT 3PM that day, my house supervisor calls me to say, the family is at the door of the house that she lived in and wants to go through her stuff in her bedroom to take what they can. (they found a car ). That dear elderly women had truly nothing much. And the "family" was overheard complaining of the clothes she had in her closet. And they also asked to take her hospital bed ( which is rented due to her issues). BTW, only what is in her bedroom is hers'.

 

My dear friend who passed away in January has one brother. I visited my friend 4 times a week because I knew I would be pretty much the only visitor he would get. I also took care of making sure he was supplied with all of the services and products he needed. His brother who lives a distance away only visited twice in the last 3 years. His brother is sole heir and asked me to clean out my friend's condo. Turf it all, he said. So the condo can be sold. Well, I found lots of family mementos and keepsakes and sorted them and stored them so that their family will have them to pass on to their children and grandchildren. I kept some small items that remind me of my friend and a few items that I may be able to sell to recover some of the costs of clearing the place out. Even those items that I plan to sell, well, I just can't do it.For the present anyway.

I wonder how many family heirlooms and mementos have been lost because of greed. Sad.

 

This is what I heard often when the Admissions Director, that families would just toss it all. Yes, a shame that some nice history is lost. And that reminds me----my brother tossed letters from my mothers half sister after my mom died. My mothers family are so pissed at him.

 

Is it just me? or does anyone else get fed up with people who cant go out into the garden without having a radio on.
Got some new people backing onto my allotment and they have had the radio going out there all day, even when they went inside for a while.

Looks like a noisy summer coming up.

 

I sometimes have the radio on in the garden for my own listening, to drown out my neighbours whistling a NON TUNE

 

I guess it would annoy me, @pete . but all I have is lots of birds. Once in a while the young boys across the creek take out their dirt bikes and spin through their paths very loudly. We do call the police for that. They have taken off "whatever" its called, that would normally muffle the sound. They are older now, hope its out of their system this year.

 

I'm feeling rather guilty at the moment....I sometimes have radio 4 on when I'm doing a bit of weeding. I am however careful to make sure that it's not blasting out - and that I can't hear it when I move away from the weeding area.

I can't be doing with dogs barking or even worse, chickens clucking. My brother's neighbour has chickens - they drive him bonkers.

I've recently installed a small pond - with some good advice from this 'ere forum. The fountain is good at drowning out background noise (no pun intended ).

 

Get a digital radio, select the same station as the one they're listening to, if your's is in sync with there's switch to fm so it's slightly out of phase. Then match their volume

It worked for me when the building site opposite was blasting out radio one all day, they got so fed up of it they switched theirs off. They didn't switch it back on after I switched mine off either

 

Living a couple of miles from the seaside my problem is noisy Seagulls. I did many years ago have a Seagull pick up my mobile phone from the garden table and fly a few gardens away before dropping it. I did try phoning the number late at night to locate the position, heard it ringing but couldn't find it..........True story

 

They start their racket before dawn here too

 

as some of you may recall this year I am retiring, date still not made. anyway, truly wish I had took notes of all the stuff over the last 14 years. recently I had to give a tutorial to a staff of how to tighten the knobs on a dresser drawer. NOT kidding you. Is so sad.

 

Natural noise doesn't bother me one bit, in fact I quite like to hear wildlife and the odd cockerel having a go at three in the morning.
I think my problem is being forced to listen to someone elses "music" all day, especially if they themselves are pretty loud, shouting to someone who is probably only a few feet away.
Presumably because they cant hear one another over the incessant din of the radio.

Had a quiet day to day, they must have gone out and bothered some other neighbourhood, but they are back now and the loud laughing has started, sounds like a bloody machine gun.

 

I moved because I couldn't stand having noisy neighbours around me. Not everyone is in a position to be able to do that, so my sympathies go to those who have to live in such an intolerable situation..

I love the sound of bird voices, even the Gulls, Magpies and Pheasants. Beats human noise anytime. I try to have the windows open as much as possible, especially in the bedroom so I can wake up to the dawn chorus. Really nice when doing household chores to listen to the birds and the moomoos and the baabaas