I live in a 'local' place

[notb665]

Over the last few weeks, there has been a woman in town wearing an orange mac playing the melody line of an unrecognisable song on a keyboard that has a key missing. For a cat's home or something.

What's the most 'local' thing you've seen?

 

[WoodYouLike]

This very morning I've found a hand written letter (blue ink) in the mail:

A child from year 6 from the local primary school (right opposite) asking for donations for the yearly barbecue and rounders match (year 6 v parents) to be used towards food and drinks for the barbecue.

Local enough?

Oh, it was properly addressed also: Dear Sir or Madam

 

[notb665]

I meant 'local' like in the dark-comedy/sitcom "The League of Gentlemen".

 

[Diyisfun]

WoodYouLike

Oh, it was properly addressed also: Dear Sir or Madam

No its not.
They should have used the internet & got the names & address from electoral roll.

 

[WoodYouLike]

I meant 'local' like in the dark-comedy/sitcom "The League of Gentlemen".

Well, I'm awfully sorry to have misunderstood you, beg your pardon, sir!

could be because I've never seen The League

 

[notb665]

I meant 'local' like in the dark-comedy/sitcom "The League of Gentlemen".

Well, I'm awfully sorry to have misunderstood you, beg your pardon, sir!

could be because I've never seen The League

Your pardon is granted.

 

[Richardp]

the guy next door (second homeowner) lit a fire in his garden (garden waste), the wind is in our direction and Caroline has washing on the line.
I went round and gave him a bockolling
thats local life.

 

[johnny_t]

I had a recorded delivery letter come the other day when I wasn't in, so the post ladt signed for it and left it behind the plant pot

 

[WoodYouLike]

I had a recorded delivery letter come the other day when I wasn't in, so the post ladt signed for it and left it behind the plant pot

Sounds familiar
(Since coming to Kent we moved twice in the same village and the postman just 'follows' us with post addressed to the old addresses)

Does this one count notb665?

 

[pickles]

Where my relatives come from in Yorkshire they call the people from the next village a mile away "offcumdens" if they move into their village and consider them to be foreigners until they have lived there for about 20 years

Also Lyme Regis in my opinion should be called Royston Vasey on sea. No one actually seems to live there except a very over enthusiastic man who runs the mill and some strange fishermen who hang out in the docks and run a "sea life centre" full of very sad fish. At night all the day trippers go home and it's absolutely deserted. I stayed in a hotel there and ate a meal in the restaurant where the waiters were fuming with rage over the way someone had laid out the wine bins at the back and were obviously plotting to beat the crap out of them.

They spent the entire evening plotting by the kitchen door, I should think the victim ended up on the menu. Very strange and local place.

Third on my list of local places is a service area on the A1 near York. I went in in the winter when it was totally deserted except for one really huge girl who was stuffing a burger down her face as if she hadn't eaten for a year. It was really windy and the doors were banging back and forward' All that was missing was some tumble weed.

The strange thing is I have never been able to find it since

 

[2scoops0406]

Over the last few weeks, there has been a woman in town wearing an orange mac playing the melody line of an unrecognisable song on a keyboard that has a key missing. For a cat's home or something.

What's the most 'local' thing you've seen?

The roadsigns near us were "vandalised" by some wag who painted underneath the village name, twinned with royston vasey "Are you local?"

 

[Steve]

removed

 

[johnny_t]

At Christmas, I was one of three Santa Clauses who had to go round giving out presents for the local children (which their parents had given to us) - One of the other Santas enlightened me to the fact that a Pampas Grass in your front garden indicates your participation in the village 'scene'



EDIT: As a postscript to that, a few days later there was some 'Comic Strip' special on the TV over Christmas that referred to this very fact. Adrian Edmondson's Mum & Dad live in my village, so I don't know if the Pampas Grass is a universal indicator, or whether our village gave the inspiration.

 

[notb665]

At Christmas, I was one of three Santa Clauses who had to go round giving out presents for the local children (which their parents had given to us) - One of the other Santas enlightened me to the fact that a Pampas Grass in your front garden indicates your participation in the village 'scene'

Yeah I saw that programme, and wanted to know the name of the grass when I had forgotten it. Not that I want to plant any, like.

 

[RF Lighting]

There's a local shop over the road from the co-op where i work..........i have to go in there for a light bulb for the shop

Does the co-op not sell light bulbs then?