I'm extremely glad to be rid of the curtains that were blocking the bay.
Within minutes of the fitter leaving, a neighbour knocked on our door. She wondered if she could have the curtain rail as we were no longer using it! I've no idea how she noticed so quickly that the curtains had been taken down. Steve had just finished explaining to me the reasons why he intended to leave the curtain rail in situ (these were basically rubbish) he just couldn't be bothered to take it down. But Steve was steamrollered in to taking the rail down and delivering it to a nearby flat.
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Maybe that neighbor can be put to use since they seem to be able to get Steve to work. Kind of funny.
I have never heard the word 'gobble' but I like it very much!
Moving in the right direction. Gobble was a new one on me too!
Wasn’t it gibble?
I love the word gribble and it's such a good way of of describing it! I used to work somewhere where they described general correspondence as 'gringe' until a manager threatened to sack anyone he caught using the word.
AND you got rid of the rail! Some people twitch every curtain to get free stuff. The blinds look lovely.
What cheek! To not only spy on your house to see the curtains were down but to immediately ask for the rail!
I confess to having gobble on every flat surface too! What else are they for, I ask my husband!?
When we were sorting out my late father in law's apartment, we put an old, tatty, broken side table outside by the bins, ready to be collected. Five minutes later I was back there with more rubbish and the side table had already been nabbed by someone!
It was a horrible thing, we'd been trying to throw it out for years, it was held together with sellotape and string, but he wouldn't part with it, so why anyone else would want it is beyond me!
I'm stunned that your neighbour assumed that the curtain rail would be coming down, we have vertical blinds on our windows, but curtains as well. They're really big windows though, so a lot of that is to keep the rooms warmer in cold weather!
Can you get Steve a big box to keep his 'gibble/tat/rubbish/bits and bobs' in?
Taking furniture apart and rehabbing it is a big hobby over here. Broken furniture can become quite beautiful.
@Debby,
Whoever took the old side table we threw out would have almost certainly been over the age of sixty five, as the apartment is in a complex for over sixty fives only! Add to that, the fact that they are small apartments, nobody has a garage, or a shed, or any sort of workshop, and I don't think it was going to be upcycled in any way!
Presumably, someone else is now living with a really ugly side table held together with tape and string!
Thank you, Hester, for "gibble." This is another useful British word to be added to my vocabulary -- the other is "bimble". Now I shall bimble about, picking up gibble...
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