This and this. @Mark has the ways
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I miss gripping boards. Only do one a year now.
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Haha yeah last time I did one was in 2020 I think
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The building we had a ramp in has finally been sold.
That yours?
“The interior requires significant improvement”
Ha, it doesnt mention the ramp in the story. Even though there is a massive picture of it.
@tempaccounttoaskaquestion sorted it whilst the owner was waiting to try and convert the chaple into a house. It was small and full of mould. But it was fun.
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Fuck fireworks.
Fireworks = the dog barks = baby wakes up = Friday night spent walking up and down with crying baby
That sucks. My dog isn’t even bothered by them. I just hate them. The next four hours will just be sounds of bangs.
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Real talk: this rain is starting to get to me. I’m ready for my ceiling to cave in at any moment.
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I think I just discovered we haven’t paid our water bill for the past 4 years.
I am absolutely dreading calculating/entering submitting the reading. 50 months of bills.
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Or just…move out? No one has to know…
We live in an apartment/flat, and water is managed by the management company that run the apartment (this is usual arrangement here). Logged into our management website and it actually has an alert for water readings that you’re supposed to manually enter, I just never noticed it/ignored it as it was in estonian. Then noticed we haven’t actually been charged for water since forever. Then noticed there is a little chart of historic usage for water and it drops to zero just after we moved in. And I just checked prices and I think we’re in for about 4k. Which isn’t great as I haven’t worked in nearly 2 years now, and wife’s startup is looking like closing just after christmas. So not looking great at the moment.
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But, the water used is water used. We’d still have paid the bill gradually and be in the same financial net result, so there’s no point flexing over it. Wife is going to find this very difficult to process but will be ok I hope.
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- Still waiting for a cancer biopsy result from a mole on my nose.
- Some c.unt cloned my card and spent £1800 at Selfridges in London
- Builders walked off site cos we disagree on their plans for structural repair at my house
- Work going to shit
- Couriers stealing trainers.
- I sound like Uncle Flea off Slap.
That is all. Fucking hurry up Christmas
just throwing this out there for some opinions, advice etc - has anyone ever had any success with contacting local councils/authorities regarding sort of the legalization/acceptability of skate spots?
about a year back I posted a sunderland council survey thing which was in regard to public space orders, basically them trying to stamp out anything they consider “antisocial”, skating included. few months later couple council wardens tried to kick us out of a plaza spot, didn’t go down well, spoke to the police later on and they said it wasn’t a problem and to contact them if it happens again. that scenario inadvertently played out yesterday as two of said wardens told us to move on right around the same time a group of crackheads attempted to fight. same police who told us to contact them turned up but i think they were a bit pressed with the other happenings to really pursue it, but it boiled down to it being a civil matter not a police matter, so whilst the police are on our side they objectively can’t do anything.
for context, the spot itself is located in a pretty rough area; throw a plaza on the same street as halfway houses, methadone clinic and state health/social services facilities and it ends up being a hotspot for basically crackheads - note i have nothing against those suffering with substance issues, but in the grand scheme of things they are infinitely worse than what we get up to and i’ve lost count of the times i’ve had to throw away fucking cider bottles or report needles etc. i’m sure plenty on here like blinky, bish, maybe voodoo can attest to the type of people you’d find at that spot.
so essentially we have backing from the local police as they know were always respectful, keep it clean and inadvertently keep the people above away (literally one of them said a few days back “glad to see yous are on shift here keeping them away”). there’s businesses directly opposite the plaza who are keen and happy with our presence there and have came out to defend us when the council wardens have came up etc, so we have what i’d say is a strong local community backing who consider us to be making the place safer. just a matter of sort of compiling it all into an email/letter and hoping some route of converse can be made.
if anyone has any input, it would be appreciated.
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The guys at skate Nottingham might be able to offer some adive.
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A minor one considering everything above but looks like I might have gotten a window to skate this weekend. But stubbed and subsequently broke my big toenail on a breezeblock last night so that’s not happening now…. 
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On two separate occasions in the past few weeks, I’ve been sat within earshot of other parents or old folks whilst witnessing shitty behaviour from the usual black-tracky clad yoot, and they’ve chimed in with “oh they need to build that lot a skatepark!” Or “is there not a skatepark they can “hang out” at?”
No! Fuck off. I’d rather have no skatepark than deal with that shower of Michael Fabricants.
I did say my piece and explain to them that they wouldnt use a skatepark and they would ruin it like everything else. Really boils my piss that the average person will still lump us in with that bunch of cretins.
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