Well, it's been a funny old weekend!
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dizzojayI've been a little bit out of circulation this weekend, as I've been over on the good old Isle of Wight (sans broadband) catching up with family; my Mum and Dad and my cousin Marie.
The plan was to go over with Barry too, but you know how it is; the best laid plans of Dizzos and men go oft awry ...
On Friday afternoon, just as I was leaving work, Barry texted me this picture with the cryptic caption 'the view outside Mum's house'. That was all it said.
Yeah, thanks Bazza, so now I'm driving home from work practically hysterical, thinking my Mother-in-Law's been murdered or dropped down a sinkhole or something.
It turned out that MiL was fine - physically anyway, but that about an hour previously, some old dear had been driving past, lost control of her car, somehow managed to do a high-speed ninety-degree right turn off the road, through the hedge that you can just see above the policeman's head, and smash right into her house.
The scene wasn't very pretty ...
That wall is Eileen's bedroom - I'm just so glad it was the middle of the day and she wasn't even in the house, never mind in the bedroom.
This is what the wall looked like after the fire service had removed the car:
The whole front and side of the house is smashed and undermined, so it's completely uninhabitable. Gas, electric and water has all had to be disconnected. The front and side and a good part of the roof will practically need to be rebuilt
Engineers have shored up her bedroom to stop the ceiling caving in, and as the radiator was flung off the wall, the whole room is waterlogged. Her bed is ruined! So needless to say, Barry has been staying here on this side of the Solent, while I went to see my parents as arranged, to help his Mum deal with this mess.
He went over to the house with her yesterday under the supervision of a council builder to pick up some of her clothes and personal effects.
This is what her bedroom looks like from the inside!
Miraculously, it seems like the old lady driver is ok, She was taken to hospital as a precaution, but apart from being shaken up and very shocked, she is relatively unharmed, which is more than I can say for her insurance policy over the next few weeks!!!
The house is a council property, and at the moment the council are putting Eileen up in a local hotel because she's effectively homeless. She has a meeting with them tomorrow to decide the long term solution because it's going to be weeks, maybe months, before the house is rebuilt/repaired to the point that it's fit to live in again.
When I first heard about this, my first thought was 'Oh hell, I hope she's alright'. My second thought was, 'Oh hell, I hope she doesn't need to come and live with us for weeks on end!'
Does that make me a very bad person?? :D
The plan was to go over with Barry too, but you know how it is; the best laid plans of Dizzos and men go oft awry ...
On Friday afternoon, just as I was leaving work, Barry texted me this picture with the cryptic caption 'the view outside Mum's house'. That was all it said.
Yeah, thanks Bazza, so now I'm driving home from work practically hysterical, thinking my Mother-in-Law's been murdered or dropped down a sinkhole or something.
It turned out that MiL was fine - physically anyway, but that about an hour previously, some old dear had been driving past, lost control of her car, somehow managed to do a high-speed ninety-degree right turn off the road, through the hedge that you can just see above the policeman's head, and smash right into her house.
The scene wasn't very pretty ...
That wall is Eileen's bedroom - I'm just so glad it was the middle of the day and she wasn't even in the house, never mind in the bedroom.
This is what the wall looked like after the fire service had removed the car:
The whole front and side of the house is smashed and undermined, so it's completely uninhabitable. Gas, electric and water has all had to be disconnected. The front and side and a good part of the roof will practically need to be rebuilt
Engineers have shored up her bedroom to stop the ceiling caving in, and as the radiator was flung off the wall, the whole room is waterlogged. Her bed is ruined! So needless to say, Barry has been staying here on this side of the Solent, while I went to see my parents as arranged, to help his Mum deal with this mess.
He went over to the house with her yesterday under the supervision of a council builder to pick up some of her clothes and personal effects.
This is what her bedroom looks like from the inside!
Miraculously, it seems like the old lady driver is ok, She was taken to hospital as a precaution, but apart from being shaken up and very shocked, she is relatively unharmed, which is more than I can say for her insurance policy over the next few weeks!!!
The house is a council property, and at the moment the council are putting Eileen up in a local hotel because she's effectively homeless. She has a meeting with them tomorrow to decide the long term solution because it's going to be weeks, maybe months, before the house is rebuilt/repaired to the point that it's fit to live in again.
When I first heard about this, my first thought was 'Oh hell, I hope she's alright'. My second thought was, 'Oh hell, I hope she doesn't need to come and live with us for weeks on end!'
Does that make me a very bad person?? :D
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Date: 2016-03-20 09:20 pm (UTC)Hopefully your MiL will be back in her home again safely soon, and not in yours!! ;)
This happened to my neighbour, she was in the bath at the time!
The car crashed in to her kitchen and she was trapped in the house till the car was removed. She was freaked out. Cameron watched the accident from his bedroom, i only heard it.
Cam thought it was awesome, but he was 9 at the time!
xxx
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:17 pm (UTC)Poor Cameron - that's the sort of experience that could leave someone traumatised!
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:32 pm (UTC)Not Cameron, it was the right side of nutty for him, but then he was safely looking out of his window!!
xxx
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Date: 2016-03-20 09:30 pm (UTC)At first glance you think it's just a ding, but the impact damage goes all the way back! O.O
This reminds me of an incident when I was a kid, and how a girl at our school barely managed to survive a truck ploughing down off the road and through her bedroom wall. It was at night, so she was in her bed, and ended up pressed up against her wall with the mattress being all that kept her from the grill of the truck.
I'm relieved to learn your MiL is well and safe, and no, it doesn't make you a bad person, hun. Truly, I though you were going to say that she was living with you. We all need our space. *HUGS*
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:19 pm (UTC)MiL isstill in hotels at the moment, but it looks like the Council have found her some accommodation now, so it looks like sshe's sorted, thankfully.
Work will start on her house after Easter apparently.
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:25 pm (UTC)I'm relieved that she will have her own place soon, though it will take a bit to get settled.
I hope apparently is of short duration.
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Date: 2016-03-20 10:09 pm (UTC)*Hugs*
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:20 pm (UTC)xx
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Date: 2016-03-25 08:11 pm (UTC)*Hugs*
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Date: 2016-03-21 12:05 am (UTC)And no...as others have said, you need your space and the repairs sound like they could take a very long time!
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:25 pm (UTC)They reckon two to three months for the repairs starting after Easter.
:D
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Date: 2016-03-21 01:10 am (UTC)Glad everyone is okay...what a mess!!!
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:25 pm (UTC)Yes, everyone's okay thankfully - and that is what's important :)
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Date: 2016-03-21 06:14 am (UTC)What a horrible accident, thank god no one was injured.
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-21 07:48 am (UTC)At least it *is* a council property and they have to do the work, because that would cost a fortune!
And no honey,t hat doesn't make you a bad person, I'd have thought exactly the same!
*hugs* bloody hell that was a close call!
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:30 pm (UTC)But she's OK, the old lady's OK - that's the important thing :)
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Date: 2016-03-24 02:24 pm (UTC)How's it all going, have they put her in the new build yet?
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Date: 2016-03-21 08:16 am (UTC)At least nobody got hurt, and the council is taking care of your MiL, but damn. Poor driver, she might have had the shock of a lifetime.
I'd personally kill my mum with my bare hands if she demanded to live at my place for twelve minutes, so no, it doesn't make you a bad person. If she had nowhere to stay, then yeah, it wouldn't make you exactly nice.
Here's to your MiL, being rehomed and her house being rebuild in no time.
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:34 pm (UTC)It's strange how you can care about someone but be driven bonkers by them isn't it? Whereas I generally tend to be a 'glass half full' person, my MiL is very much a 'glass half empty' person, and I find that sort of constant negativity so wearing, I just can't really deal with it!
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Date: 2016-03-21 11:06 am (UTC)Secondly - bloody hell!! On that initial photo from the outside it didn't look as though the damage was that bad but blimey! That old girl really did a number on that house, didn't she. How on earth did she manage it?
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-21 01:29 pm (UTC)Lastly I did wonder why they were filming Fast and Furious 8 in your Mother in Law's front garden.
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:37 pm (UTC)I think this is the most excitement Windlesham has had since World War II !!
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Date: 2016-03-22 09:39 pm (UTC)Yes, everyone is okay, and that's what is important - it's amazing how easy it is to forget that!
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