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Jun 8Liked by Terry Freedman

Very good, Terry. Very British bureaucracy.

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Jun 8·edited Jun 8Author

😂 Cheers, Nathan!

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Jun 6Liked by Terry Freedman

'noise abatement', now there's something to shout about!

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Very droll

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See, the move is to dispatch with the bird when the neighbours are out, then invite them over for roast chicken. Not to whinge to bureaucracy.

(My grandfather who lived in the country - and who was clearly in some respects a maniac - actually did this with a troublesome neighbour’s bird. Neighbours said it was a delicious meal, too 😅)

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Jun 8Liked by Terry Freedman

Bahaha.

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Lol. That's funny, though I feel sorry for the bird

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Likewise. Poor thing was in the country, just living its best chicken life.

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Exactly, Bryn. Well put

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I don't understand why British cockerels are so obsessed with punctuality!

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Jun 8Liked by Terry Freedman

Hehe. 👏

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🤣

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Jun 6Liked by Terry Freedman

There's always that one in the crowd who just both doesn't listen and misses the point.

Sigh!

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I think he was doing it deliberately. I mean, nobody could be that thick

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Jun 5Liked by Terry Freedman

What you described would be such a funny episode of something like The Office. I can just see the glaring-guy. 😁

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Lol. Yes, me too, now you come to say that!

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Jun 5Liked by Terry Freedman

Clever Terry!

This raises a question though, could it be possible that the UK has even more levels of bureaucracy than the US? I hope not.

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Ha, we have levels of bureaucracy you wouldn't believe. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago I read that two bodies had been set up by the government to look into the problem of duplication.

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Jun 7Liked by Terry Freedman

Ah, The Department of Redundancy Department. I am familiar with it.

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🤣

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Jun 5Liked by Terry Freedman

I need to go more to local meetings! 🤔

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They're always a complete waste of time in my experience, except that they are good for picking up things you can use in your writing!

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Jun 5Liked by Terry Freedman

Ha ha ha. Lord Freedman comes to the rescue... Hilarious.

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😁

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Loved this!

We had some new neighbours thirty-five-odd years ago - they'd moved to the countryside, having decided that 'London's too loud for us'.

Within a week they'd come round to complain about our sheep. We lived in the COUNTRYSIDE. They'd moved to the COUNTRYSIDE. They didn't like the sound of SHEEP. It wasn't even a whole field of sheep, either - and hey, the sheep were IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

They didn't last long in the neighbourhood (the neighbours, not the sheep).

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“Can you find us a property that has the appeal of a military-grade sensory deprivation tank?” - them to the realtors, probably.

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LOL. Some people are really odd. A few years ago one of our neighbours complained that our cats were doing their business on his lawn. I said well it's not them because we keep them in at night, but I'll have a word with them anyway.

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