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Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!
From: Prunella@chelonium.plus.com (Prunella)
In article <t7Sho.59745$Q_3.479@newsfe27.ams2>, Lydia Dustbin <marrowjam@[snip}blueyonder.co.uk>.invalid> writes
"Prunella" <Prunella@chelonium.plus.com> wrote in message
news:KA0haZHcT9hMFwy0@chelonium.plus.com...
I can't watch, yet I have to keep checking. He's on the roof, attempting to
put a liner down one of the chimneys. He's working from the back of the
house, so I can't see what ladder he's using, but it isn't one of those
that has hooks that go over the ridge tiles. The liner isn't going down
very easily, and at one point he was standing on the ridge and holding on
to the TV aerial with one hand.
He's done an awful lot of DIY over the decades, but so also did a former
colleague of my husband. That colleague had done up a couple of houses but
fell off a roof and will probably never walk painlessly again.
I think I'll have to draw the curtains and hope there'll be no
blues-and-twos.
Oh, I sympathise! Dave-over-the-road walks about the rooftops here like a
tom cat on the prowl and never holds onto anything at all. I flee downstairs
and sit in the back garden waiting for the scream and crash.
I can't bear to watch people when they do that. But then I get vertigo halfway up an ordinary stepladder. Actually, I'd probably even get vertigo if I wore shoes like that Victoria Beckham does.
Have you taken a photo?
No, on the basis that:
(a) It'd be tempting fate, and
(b) He's a nice guy, and
(c) Goto (a) and (b).
Today, the liner has been in the state he left it in, so there's a shiny loop diving into the chimney pot. If it were me, I'd leave it like that and call it modern art.
I would relish a bit of 'oh dear' myself having sneezed untowards and then
yelled and have that awful kind of back twnge that only stops hurting when I
am standing up.
I reckon back pain is an argument against intelligent design. I worked for some consultants who specialised in pain management. Now, there were people who understood how pain affects people's lives. They weren't afraid to explore all avenues, from oral/injected medication to acupuncture to pain management programmes. Those three consultants were some of the loveliest people I ever met in the NHS.
Like at the sink....
No, no, no. That's just about as wrong as a wrong thing could be.
Hope you get better soon.
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Prunella
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