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I'm standing at the door talking to somebody on a block of flats in a
council estate, they are all called something house wotsit court etc all with names of ex council leaders or smart ass developers. Along comes this guy with a pizza and asks with a slight accident. Is this Basketball court. I look at him, well in his direction and say, now does it look like one, its a block of flats. He then says, but I've been to criditon Court and alderman ping court, but I cannot find one named basketball. I feel its only right to say at this point that there is indeed a basketball court for children just round the corner over his right shoulder. I could not help laughing really. I said it actually is a basketball court, not a building named basketball, its over there. He muttered something under his breath and went. Britain must be very confusing, or is it just the bloke was extremely thick. I knew there was somebody in the court as I could hear the ball being bounced. So have pity on the poor delivery bloke, he may well be one of those people mentioned in Jethro Tulls song, Thick as a brick. Brian Note building names have been changed to protect the anonymity of the person I was talking to who could not speak for trying to suppress his laughter. -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! |
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On 08/03/2018 17:10, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm standing at the door talking to somebody on a block of flats in a council estate, they are all called something house wotsit court etc all with names of ex council leaders or smart ass developers. Along comes this guy with a pizza and asks with a slight accident. Is this Basketball court. I look at him, well in his direction and say, now does it look like one, its a block of flats. He then says, but I've been to criditon Court and alderman ping court, but I cannot find one named basketball. I feel its only right to say at this point that there is indeed a basketball court for children just round the corner over his right shoulder. I could not help laughing really. I said it actually is a basketball court, not a building named basketball, its over there. If they have buildings called something court it's a perfectly reasonable error to make, regardless of accent. Can you order a pizza for third park bench from the left? -- Max Demian |
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![]() "Brian Gaff" wrote in message news ![]() I'm standing at the door talking to somebody on a block of flats in a council estate, they are all called something house wotsit court etc all with names of ex council leaders or smart ass developers. Along comes this guy with a pizza and asks with a slight accident. Is this Basketball court. I look at him, well in his direction and say, now does it look like one, its a block of flats. I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim |
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On 08/03/2018 19:41, tim... wrote:
I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim Provided the numbers are in a logical place in the sequence of road address numbering. that shouldn't be a problem. When I was a teenager with a paper round I had a block like that on my round, and I had no trouble delivering papers to the three flats that had ordered them. There are more confusing addresses around. Near where I am living now, there is a road where the houses on one side have a different street name to the houses on the other side. Depending on which map you buy, the road between the two has one name printed or the other. Novice postmen must be eternally grateful for modern postcodes! Jim |
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On 08/03/2018 19:41, tim... wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message news ![]() I'm standing at the door talking to somebody on a block of flats in a council estate, they are all called something house wotsit court etc all with names of ex council leaders or smart ass developers. Along comes this guy with a pizza and asks with a slight accident. Is thisÂ* Basketball court. I look at him, well in his direction and say, now does it look like one, its a block of flats. I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. That works fine for a new build road or the end of a cul-de-sac. Better than a flat number in a named block as there can be confusion if two blocks are in the same postcode. Also people don't know whether you live in a teeny flat or a great mansion from the address. -- Max Demian |
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"tim..." wrote: "Brian Gaff" wrote in message news ![]() I'm standing at the door talking to somebody on a block of flats in a council estate, they are all called something house wotsit court etc all with names of ex council leaders or smart ass developers. Along comes this guy with a pizza and asks with a slight accident. Is this Basketball court. I look at him, well in his direction and say, now does it look like one, its a block of flats. I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim My house is called Something House, at the end of Something Lane. We often get drivers trying to deliver items for one of the neighbours in the same road, but they apparently cannot see the name of our house, which is in raised letters, in a colour that contrasts with the background, and whose letters are about 8 inches tall, and right next to the door. Despite all that, they are amazed when we hand the item back to them, pointing out the house name with a short movement of the hand. -- Davey. |
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![]() "Indy Jess John" wrote in message ... On 08/03/2018 19:41, tim... wrote: I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim Provided the numbers are in a logical place in the sequence of road address numbering. that shouldn't be a problem. When I was a teenager with a paper round I had a block like that on my round, and I had no trouble delivering papers to the three flats that had ordered them. There are more confusing addresses around. Near where I am living now, there is a road where the houses on one side have a different street name to the houses on the other side. Depending on which map you buy, the road between the two has one name printed or the other. Novice postmen must be eternally grateful for modern postcodes! I believe that can happen when the borough (even county) boundary goes along the middle of the road so different thought processes have been applied when the houses were built. -- Woody harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com |
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You may say that, but a friend of mine has the same post code as the railway
station at Chessington south. I am not sure how these things are calculated. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! "Indy Jess John" wrote in message ... On 08/03/2018 19:41, tim... wrote: I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim Provided the numbers are in a logical place in the sequence of road address numbering. that shouldn't be a problem. When I was a teenager with a paper round I had a block like that on my round, and I had no trouble delivering papers to the three flats that had ordered them. There are more confusing addresses around. Near where I am living now, there is a road where the houses on one side have a different street name to the houses on the other side. Depending on which map you buy, the road between the two has one name printed or the other. Novice postmen must be eternally grateful for modern postcodes! Jim |
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Indy Jess John wrote:
On 08/03/2018 19:41, tim... wrote: I live in a block of flats and my address is XX Something Drive, cos they have just numbered the 9 flats in the block as a continuation of the street numbers. tim Provided the numbers are in a logical place in the sequence of road address numbering. that shouldn't be a problem. When I was a teenager with a paper round I had a block like that on my round, and I had no trouble delivering papers to the three flats that had ordered them. There are more confusing addresses around. Near where I am living now, there is a road where the houses on one side have a different street name to the houses on the other side. Depending on which map you buy, the road between the two has one name printed or the other. Novice postmen must be eternally grateful for modern postcodes! Our village in Suffolk confuses anyone who doesn't know it. It's mostly land settlement houses built in the 1920s and 1930s, these have sequential numbers which run right round all the roads in the village. I.e. numbers 1 to 10 (say) are on Ipswich Road and numbers 30 to 46 are on our road with others on other roads. Just to add to the fun the houses are not always in numeric order along the roads. -- Chris Green · |
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