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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Problem here is that one postcode sometimes covers the whole road, my son’s a driver and he said the times the house he’s looking for is called ‘Green Gates’ no green gate in the road, he knocks on a door asking for the place, ‘Oh yes! We’ve painted it red now’ 👹🤬
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lyn said:
    Problem here is that one postcode sometimes covers the whole road, my son’s a driver and he said the times the house he’s looking for is called ‘Green Gates’ no green gate in the road, he knocks on a door asking for the place, ‘Oh yes! We’ve painted it red now’ 👹🤬
    I delivered to a house with " opposite the phone box" on the instructions. After driving up and down I saw someone waving at me. 
    " we're here"
    " I was looking for the phone box" 
    " they took it away 6 months ago" 
    6 months after that she still had " opposite the phone box" as directions to her house.
    Make everyone display a number , PROMINENTLY .
    I've delivered to houses/farms at the end of a half mile drive then they have the house name on the building, but not at the end of the drive.
    Devon.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    We have the house number on a plaque next to the front door (not tiny, about 6" wide by 4" deep) and we still get other people's deliveries.  Someone tried to bring us a takeaway on Saturday evening.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The road where I lived in Hampshire ran 1,3,5,7, 9,9a,11,11a,13,13a,15,17,19.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ours runs 1,3, 5, 11.   7 and 9 are the farm tucked away behind us with an access road.  The other side has a number 6 but the rest is fields.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2018
     B)  Did you eat it? 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
     B)  Did you eat it? 


    What! Half a ton of sand😀😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lyn said:
     B)  Did you eat it? 


    What! Half a ton of sand😀😀
    Nooooooooo!   JennyJ's takeaway lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    While travelling in Yugoslavia, as it was then, I found a suburban road where the house numbers appeared to be completely random.  On inquiry, we were told they were self-build plots, and each house, when completed, was given the next number.
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