Good Luck!

Hat tip to Harry Phibbs who has tweeted a photo of a notice pinned to a front door.

The notice warns whoever keeps adding "og" to the owner's doorsign that

"If I catch you, you are dead."

The doorsign is supposed to read "Dr A Hedgeh."

See "A tough - but thus far ineffective - response to graffiti" at ...



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Jim said…
there was a similar problem in carlisle when we lived there a few years ago, we lived in the wife's house which is one of the few that have sold on that estate, most are rented or To Let these days (mainly 2 bed semis), though there is a kid with a magic marker somewhere on the estate who seems to like nothing more than changing every To Let sign into one advertising the house as a "Toilet". lucky we got off light, there is not much you can do with "For Sale" - i can tempt fate now as its too late, they are both sold.

moving over the weekend, so all will go quiet, unless there is a hotspot i can hit, as bt wont connect the new until Jul 3rd, but its mega fast fibre so wont be all bad
6:23 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
All the very best of luck with your house move. Do let me know how it goes.
10:41 pm
Jim said…
Thanks for the good wishes, should be OK, I have removal men doing the hard bit as I really could not be on with it. So that eases the burden, Just hoping someone else on the estate has bt broadband so I can hit the hotspot until my own line and router are active (used to do this at carlisle a lot).

by the way, one of your earlier posts helped me influence an idea. Believe it or not a number on the house is an "extra" from the builder, which would have cost me £30, so instead i had one made from amazon really nice and only a tenner. Anyway how did your post help, well 24 i decided did not look anywhere near as good as "XXIV" on a posh door number :)
4:41 pm
Jim said…
Oh, and there is another plus, yes its further to drive to work from the new one, but well worth it when you consider I will have weekly bin collections and no longer have to fund Copeland council (to give them their due, though they are not great, allerdale seem to be a bit more useful than copeland on that front.

That said, there have been some new bungalows built on mirehouse (where the calder club was) these are council homes, and a couple we are friendly with have got one, they moved from Derwentwater rd, and I must say the new one, well they done a really nice job of them. Perhaps it was copelands day off.
4:54 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
I'm sure there is a joke there along the lines of how having a house number expressed in Roman numerals is a way of screening your visitors.

It means that only people with a certain level of education can easily find your house!
8:33 am
Jim said…
Well its not difficult, even if you cant read XXIV, though the houses are numbered odds/evens but still its not too challenging for a postman to figure out its the one between 22 and 26 :)

Although never say never
8:40 am
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