Usenet Newsgroups Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof! From: marrowjam@[snip}blueyonder.co.uk (Lydia Dustbin) 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. <nods, furiously> Actually, I'd probably even get vertigo if I wore shoes like that Victoria Beckham does. Do you get that awful 'drawn to the edge effect?' The feeling that if you jumped you would defy the laws of gravity and soar like a bird? Bloody scary. I froze on the flat roof outside one year and had to be talked down by Brian-next-door. A copper, so he knew the drill. 'That's right, Now let me move your foot to the first rung...There. That feels nice and secure, doesn't it?' 'Meeep! Meeep!' 'That's a good girl. Now see if you can wriggle back another inch. No, it;s all right, we have all day...' 'Meeeeep!' That's the last time I tell myself. 'Oh, it's all in the mind! I will just hop up there, clean the painwork and climb back down again....' 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. Well it's better than two wellingtons sticking out of red trouser legs like you get here at Christmas, and that's a fact. 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 blame that Lucy - or someone just like her, who had this bright idea that lifting their front paws off the ground would enable them to see over the top of the tall grass. We should have stuck to speed, and developed legs like a...  kangaroo!! Yes! Although they are pretty upright. I wonder if they get back ache? 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. Mmmmm. When I think about how bad pain can be (my worst was definitely gall-bladder explosion) then I realise even when sharp and nasty my back-ache is minor league but I do like a good moan. Must be terrible, terrible to have to be referred for pain. The trouble with pain as we have no way of judging how somone else is suffering and noise has nothing to do with it. I have seen people lie still as death and pale with pain, and others making a hullabaloo and you can't tell anything, really both were in equal trouble.. (Gall-bladder was freeze and too scared to breath almost because you KNEW something would break and be unmendable. Later I learned that standing on my head helped a lot.) Like at the sink.... No, no, no. That's just about as wrong as a wrong thing could be. 8) Sickening. Kitchen counter tops are very clean though and the sink sparkles. LdB Subject  Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!  Re: Eeek! The DIY-er opposite is on the roof!