LOL… I’d exempt Van, but otherwise…yep!
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I’m pleased to report that the bins have been put away with no intervention from me. But their cat did a wee in our dining room yesterday. But he’s lovely so is sort of forgiven. He has issues.
Cats are a law unto themselves. About ten years ago a guy from a house in the next road banged on our front door and after checking that we did own the large ginger cat with a fluffy tail, complained about him pooing on their lawn. I apologised but pointed out that there wasn’t much I could do about it. He would move on to another garden in his own time.
The next two days the guy brought some cat poos on a spade and threw them onto my drive. Then presumably my cat did move on because no more poo appeared on my drive ever again.
But the neighbour in question is still to this day known as “poo man” to all of our local friends.
So I suggest ignoring the errant wee Nigel!
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David
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Bill Withers, Lovely Day annoyed the hell out of me when my upstairs neighbour played it extremly loud every Sunday morning . After 5 years in the flat I am happy to never hear it again , that’s 16 years ago now still damaged.
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More on topic than my last anecdote, back in the day we lived in a first floor “maisonette” and I used to play my HiFi truly loud, a lot. One of our then favourite albums was Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and it was only by chance that I found out that the downstairs neighbours probably thought “Better off Dead” was a truly appropriate song title.
They went on holiday and had given us a key to go through their flat to water the tomato plants in their back garden. The first evening I put the HiFi on as usual and went downstairs to water the tomatoes. That was when I discovered that I could hear the music just the same in their living room as in our’s. I was horrified and surprised they had never said anything. We sold up and bought a very small detached house three or four months later. I bet they were glad to see the back of us!
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David
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The Groundhogs Cherry Red on repeat or perhaps play the whole Split album, also on repeat.
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Ian Dury ‘Plaistow Patricia’ play it very very very loud … then follow up with Lapa Sprit Vessel on repeat again very loud…(lots of long bass notes) … possibly intersperse with Bob Marley…reggae…
I have fond memories of that Dury track starting to play when the Mormons called at the door!!! Its a bit of a conversation stopper!
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Definitely Split. Great album!
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The neighbours monstrosity of a retaining wall bodged up earlier this year ^
Bad as it maybe, their new diabolically ugly fence hobnobbed to nothing but the gabion wire is questionably a lot worst…
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Looks like the Olympic Park near me. It’ll soon grow over…or not. Those wood battens sure are ugly…
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The neighbours are delighted with how their fence looks from their side.
They can’t see the gabions or the ugly side of the fence from their higher-ground outlook, but they’re also delighted with what a complete and utter mess it looks from my side.
Did you fall out over something in particular?
Not that i was aware of, however i now believe they become vindictive after i consulted the local buildings control surveyor about their retaining wall that was dangerously leaning over my garden due to a lack of structural integrity.
Being a kindly neighbour i did inform them many times that cracks had appeared in the brickwork, and it will get worse until collapse. The span time of my many approaches to them about the problems with their wall is over 15 years, so it’s not like they didn’t have much time to do something about it. But i was sympathetic towards them because i could see it would be an expensive job to fix [ replace ].
The original wall in question was a meter high, but they had this built up to 2 meters high, one wall on top of another, and thus the original foundation couldn’t take the extra retention weight. So it was them that engineered the failure of their own wall.
Really impressed with the way they lined up all the sloping battens, really sets it off to its full advantage…!
Sorry if this has been answered before but aren’t all the fixings and construction parts supposed to be facing towards the property of the person(s) responsible for the fence…?
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It’s a common myth, with UK garden law it maybe either way around.
What concerns me more is the exposed fence posts strapped to to sides of the gabions, and only fixed to 4.5mm galvanised wire. It’s not only butt-ugly but the fence will stay up as long as the wire lasts…
Hardly unreasonable for you to mention the cracks in the original wall which could have posed a danger to people either side had it collapsed.
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Yikes…! Hadn’t noticed that… I’m surprised the ‘construction’ company felt that was sufficient
Ivy will do the covering job.
Once used to spend hours enduring this to play some poxy game on some poxy computer.
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