Lodgers

[Plantaholic]

During and after the war my parents had lodgers, people needed homes at that time

[Daisy]

Plant - my mother had someone billeted on her during the War - my dad was away on war work and until I arrived she had two spare bedrooms.

Shem - I can remember as a child wondering why funny looks were exchanged when adults talked about their "lodgers"!! The hospital staff scheme sounds like a win-win for both parties. What a good idea.

[ZIZI]

When we moved from our house to here I thought that would be the end of the "boomerang" children but middle boy came back for two weeks and stayed seven months. He was "invited" to leave. I really could not cope with lodgers not just because this is a smaller place than we had before but because we like being on our own. Chap of the road has got a money spinner though, he has concreted over his front garden so has space for four cars. He obviously rents out the spaces for people going to the airport (we are a short bus ride away) . Wonder how much he gets a week?

[Gemini]

OH would cope with lodgers better than I would. She is less private, territorial or however you like to put it! We won't be doing it however!!

In the early days of our relationship she had a friend who was going through a rough time in her relationship lodging with her for 3 weeks, although it was open ended so could have been far longer if they hadn't patched things up. Although we lived apart then, I hated that someone else was there when I was at OHs.
She also had her best friend as a lodger for year (before we met) The friend is a lovely considerate person, and it worked out really well. I can see it is different with a close friend, and when you are single, as OH was then, as it can be welcome company after work.

Zizi, I imagine there is a lot of money to be made in renting out those parking spaces!

[ZIZI]

Gem when I finally retire we might rent our one space out. The parking charges are sooo expensive and even if we got £50 a week it would be an income boost. He has four cars at a time and we are always seeing people with their suitcases. I know it is mean but sometimes when I see them walking in the wrong direction I do laugh because coming out of the road and turning left means they walk through the village and there are absolutely no buses going to the airport any more from outside so invariably you see them trudging back in the other direction. If I was a nice person I would trot out there and direct them but if I was charging people to park outside my house or in my space I would issue them with very succinct directions.

[Avo]

Definitely not!

[Nana]

Me neither Avo.

[Grauntie Mag]

When the girls were at home we had a succession of 'lodgers'. Very short term as mostly they were friends of DD1 who had fallen out with their parents.🙄 (I might add it was reciprocal, we mothers thought it must be something in the water) More seriously, a friend of DD1s had a boyfriend of whom her parents did not approve. He was Canadian and I've no idea how he ended up here. The girl lived at home (she was early 20s and he 30s) and he had no where to live, and so came to stay with us. He was the perfect lodger. One morning he didn't appear at breakfast. He had vanished. He returned a week or so later, having been to France apparently, full of apologies. The next thing we knew, he and the GF had fallen out and he had tried to strangle her in a pub car park. A short time later he had committed suicide. All very disturbing when I consider I had the DDs living at home. Never, ever again.

[Gemini]

Good grief GM!

[Plantaholic]

My goodness GM , one never knows.