Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

And even more homes being flooded due to where they are being built. Local Authorities are bad enough for allowing building on flood plains, but national control will mean people with absolutely no knowledge, or interest, making the decisions. We're moving towards an authoritarian regime much faster than even I expected.

 

It's a real worry. Authoritarianism never works out well for ordinary citizens, but once it takes hold, it is very difficult to shift without huge disruption and often extensive loss of life. Just this week, Seoul could have tipped into calamity simply as a result of one authoritarian move by one person who decided unilaterally that clinging to power justified extreme violence against those he purported to "lead".

 

Thanks for the tip, @cactus_girl - might give that a try, though I suspect the door needs re-hanging, or replacing. Unscrewing the middle hinge showed that the door has definitely warped. The squawk continues...

 

I have a similar problem with the back door @Liriodendron . It doesn't actually sqawk just takes a lot of effort to open/close.
I suppose at least you could pretend you have a pet Parrot until you manage to fix it. Good luck anyway

 

And a wooden leg and a crutch I suppose.

 

That is a great tip, @cactus_girl, will use that on my squeaky hinges :D
I have the opposite problem, a surplus of candle wax in the wrong place - managed to get candle-wax dripping into my sink and now it is blocked...gah!

 

Pour a couple of kettles of very hot water down - that should melt the wax and get it moving.

 

Why is everywhere and everything so noisy?

I met The Girls in town as we live quite a bit afar so meeting in town is convenient for all. The pub was absolutely full, noisy for just the chatter and on top of it, the music was on.

Conversation was reduced to some shouted remarks and "yeah I'm good and you?"s when we really wanted just to have a drink and talk.

I don't want to meet The Girls in "Yer Olde Coffee Shoppe", I want to pop into a normal pub, have a drink and chatter so that we can actually have a conversation and hear what everyone is saying.

Quiet pub, please

 

I believe our ASDA has a quiet hour for us oldies, when they don't play music or bing bong the staff. Why don't they have a noisy hour instead?

 

We had the same, so Miss Jiff had a word at customer service (who we know) if we put some money in for charity will you turn the music down or off when we are in the shop please, next time we were in off went the music even some staff were saying "thank god for that" we didn't tell them what Miss Jiff did put they found out who done it and they thanked us some time later

 

You are one of the rare exceptions with your hearing getting better with every year. Soon, you can hear the grass growing.

 

Believe me, most English can’t understand that kind of English spoken in the South and middle of the States. Hearing aids are not coping well with that @shiney