cheb wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 11:08 am
I'm now back home, mowing the grass seems to be the most pressing option, van unloading can wait. One doesn't use noisy power tools on a Sunday over here, very civilised.
Shared a leg of one of our journeys around eastern Turkey (in the 80s) with a young German policeman who said his job was really boring as he spent most of his time dealing with people complaining about neighbours mowing the grass, using power tools and hanging out washing on a Sunday.
(Sounded like a pretty civilised place to me. If they'd added in life sentences for using petrol leaf blowers at any time I'd be checking out immigration rules and house prices. ).
Worked today - knackered after a long week.
Only three days next week cos we’re off to Honiton for wedding on Thursday.
Child is home so it’s a chill weekend,
Run on the CBR tomorrow maybe as it won’t get used for a couple of weeks
Above subject to change
cheb wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 11:08 am
I'm now back home, mowing the grass seems to be the most pressing option, van unloading can wait. One doesn't use noisy power tools on a Sunday over here, very civilised.
Shared a leg of one of our journeys around eastern Turkey (in the 80s) with a young German policeman who said his job was really boring as he spent most of his time dealing with people complaining about neighbours mowing the grass, using power tools and hanging out washing on a Sunday.
(Sounded like a pretty civilised place to me. If they'd added in life sentences for using petrol leaf blowers at any time I'd be checking out immigration rules and house prices. ).
It's mildly interesting to me to compare and contrast the AFAICT socially driven quiet Sundays and public holidays here with the similar but fundamentalist church imposed version on some of the Hebridean islands. The former is still popular, the latter is very much dying out.
cheb wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 11:08 am
I'm now back home, mowing the grass seems to be the most pressing option, van unloading can wait. One doesn't use noisy power tools on a Sunday over here, very civilised.
Shared a leg of one of our journeys around eastern Turkey (in the 80s) with a young German policeman who said his job was really boring as he spent most of his time dealing with people complaining about neighbours mowing the grass, using power tools and hanging out washing on a Sunday.
(Sounded like a pretty civilised place to me. If they'd added in life sentences for using petrol leaf blowers at any time I'd be checking out immigration rules and house prices. ).
It's mildly interesting to me to compare and contrast the AFAICT socially driven quiet Sundays and public holidays here with the similar but fundamentalist church imposed version on some of the Hebridean islands. The former is still popular, the latter is very much dying out.
Well, it would make an interesting study for someone. Evolved societal behaviours vs 'externally' enforced/policed ones. A good thing about it would be the research grant application would need to include the costs of stints in places like Tokyo where social behaviours have evolved to cope with v high population densities. We get it here a bit on a packed tube where you assume the 1000yd stare while your nose is crammed into someone's armpit.
Hmmm....where did I put that research grant application form?
PS the local church was still a big factor when we stayed in a smallish place in Germany in 2003. Our host stayed away from the front windows when she 'should have been in church'. Wife spent quite a lot of work time in Weinheim and it sounded a bit 'Stepford Wives' to me ie all a bit too good/perfect to be true. (I did a spell down the road at Walldorf but that just seemed like a SAP dormitory ).
If they'd added in life sentences for using petrol leaf blowers at any time I'd be checking out immigration rules and house prices. 
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