Angels With Grumpy Faces

Attractive foreign students grumpy about voyeur landlord.

Two female Bulgarian students found cameras in their apartment that they said have been trained on their every move, from going to sleep to taking showers.

St Petersburg Times

Digital Switchover Grumping

The digital switchover has gripped the nation for many months now. And for one couple in Essex, it has brought unexpected, um, perks.

Coronation Street

No Corrie for us...but we do get adult channels!

NIGHTS in front of the TV are no longer the same for one Wix couple.

David and Dee Coe have lost out on Coronation Street and have picked up
adult and shopping channels after retuning their TV for the digital
switchover on Wednesday.

Previously, they received terrestrial channels one to five. Now they
only get BBC.

Mrs Coe, 68, of Harwich Road, said: “It’s not just the shopping
channels. We suddenly have all these adult channels, which are
disgusting.

“We don’t want them. I’m missing Coronation Street and Loose Women and
want them back.

“All I can say is it’s good we don’t have children.’’ They sought help
from Digital UK, the company leading the switchover.

The couple say they were shocked to find they could wait a year until
the area receives a signal boost, and even that might not solve the
problem.

Mrs Coe said: “We phoned first thing on Thursday, only to be told
because we are getting the signal from Sudbury it isn’t strong enough
for this area.

“We could have to wait up to a year before we could get back ITV and
see the other channels.

“They told us an alternative would be to buy more equipment.

“But I don’t see why we should have to.

“We are pensioners and the television is all we have to look forward to.

“It’s incredibly disappointing.”

A Digital UK spokesman said the couple were suffering from variable
reception.

He said he would pass on the concerns to the broadcasting team. He
said: “It might be Freeview is not the best option for them.

“I would recommend they look at alternative digital services, such as
Freesat.”

No Corrie for us...but we do get adult channels! (From Essex County
Standard)

Fence built through middle of York play area's goalposts.

Grumpy About Fencing.

Not so much grumpy, as baffled. .

fence through football pitch

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9095633.Fence_built_through_middle_of_goalposts/

Health Aware Grumpys With Added Vaguely Famous Celebrity

It has been a while since I made a contribution to these very pages but something from very, very (far too) close to home has brought me back. In an effort to raise awareness about a recent upturn in strange medical symptoms among the populous, a Mossley residents group have brought out the big guns and gone to the media armed with an e-mail from Erin Brockovich and the presence of one of the cast of Hollyoaks. Yes, Hollyoaks!

Worried residents call in Erin Brockovich to back campaign over Mossley toxin fears (source)

I appreciate that what's written above isn't, unlike the other entries on this esteemed site, humorous in any way at all but there are reasons. The first is that I actually know some of the people in that photograph and the second is that I appear to be developing a strange headache. My throat is starting to feel little scratchy too.

If there's one good thing to come out of the situation though it's that the lack of any close resemblances between the people in the picture does go some way to disproving the theories of people in neighbouring towns which state that the family trees in Mossley consist of a single branch.

Now, with that out of the way, I'm off to be genuinely worried.

Grumpy Wilko's staff.

Wilkinson's. The local store that you never use. I live down the road from their HQ. They turned me down for a job once. I don't recall being as grumpy as these guys about it.