Annual Christmas problem

[James Wilkinson Sword]

What like "Inch View" and Scholar's Road" - what's posh about those?

[ARW]

Sheffield is chopping them down.

[ARW]

I thought all new posh new developments were called Mews or Courts - with the local councillors name (the one that supported the planning permission after taking a £1000 backhander) placed just before the word Mews or Court on the street sign.

[ARW]

You have turned into Pounder.

When was the last time a council built an estate?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Decades ago, which is why they're all falling apart now, and they're spending millions giving them nice shiny new bathrooms at the taxpayer's expense. Why does someone on benefits need a new toilet?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Round here "court" means council estate, usually stupidly designed with = the front doors all facing each other and a path going along them, and t= he entrance roads round the back. So you can't drive to someone's front= door.

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In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for= the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety= when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dre= ssing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge wi= ndow whilst holding a scythe.

The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, = the then 81-year-old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, ha= d conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents= of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance t= hat it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and t= he treatment for shock of five other residents.

[DerbyBorn]

New roofs for the 3rd time in my memory is the fad where I live.

[Huge]

£1000? You must have cheapskate planners.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Yes I've seen that too.

[ARW]

Well it's only Doncaster:-)

[ARW]

although I would have just called it Boulevard.

[Tim+]

Rather amusingly there is a "Letsby Avenue" in Sheffield.

Tim

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Just for once Mr Hucker is correct!

This is the new name for council estates:

I understand that the occupants of these kennels have already managed to turn the area into a drug infested ghetto. Scum is as scum is.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

That's good coming from an alcoholic.

[John]

What a stupid design with those boxes above the front door.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Agreed - looks like lego gone wrong.

[Vir Campestris]

I looked. It's not an accident since it's at the back of the Police...

Andy