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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    KT53 said:
    I thought the same as you about planning, but it seems we may be wrong.
    You might be working to English planning and I'm working to Welsh. We don't really have a temporary structure rule here either as planning like to set restrictions on how long temporary means. It's a bit of a joke to say it's temporary because it can be moved. It's only temporary if you know it will be gone soon.

    Sadly in my case planning usually base their judgements on whether a shed will have a negative impact on other people still being able to enjoy their property which is very hard to judge since you don't have a right to light or a view as such.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This is the start of the new shed (on the left). Roof still to come.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh dear ... here you are ... will these help 🍺 🍺 🍺 

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





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Ugh. That would make me very curmudgeonly.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    At least it's not one of those orange ones. Grow something big there. Preferably with strong foundation adjusting roots👺
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We have had a bloke building his own house on the opposite side of the cul-de-sac our bedroom window looks out on. It has been squeezed into an odd patch of back garden. He has been building it for SEVEN years. Some of the tradespeople and lorries have been arriving for work between 7 am and 7.30 am. As the road is on a steepish hill, the lorries have to change down and do a lot of shunting in front of our bedroom window in order to do a tight right turn into the building site or alternatively chug up to the T shaped close and reverse up and down that in order to turn round and come back down.
     We are praying the house is going to be finished soon, the tradespeople have been there since Jan 2nd on this latest stint.


    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I'd forgotten you were in Welsh Wales wild edges, that could indeed make a difference.  English planning laws are being relaxed so that a single storey extension can be 6 metres deep rather than the existing 3 metre limit, before planning permission is required.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Had an "I'm not paying that" moment in a gc the other day. "Ive got one poking out between the paving slabs"
    I fancied an everlasting sweet pea. OK they don't smell, but they don't go all brown and witheredy mildewed at the base either and, i hate to say it, but I don't particularly like the smell of sweet peas.
    The plant was £9.99! OK it was probably a couple of years old and was on a little trellis.
    Now I've got to decide whether to lift the slab and move it or encourage it into the flowerbed.
    Oh the problems of a gardener with somewhere to live and food on the table!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I too had an "I'm not paying that" to a guy trying to sell us an aerial photo of our house/garden . He wanted £40 for the photo. I told him nobody else would ever buy it so I offered him £5 to cover the cost of printing the photos. 
    "Nobody else is going to buy it so it's a fiver or chuck it in the bin, your choice. " He chose to walk away.  No skin off my nose.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2019
    Or you could look on Google maps for nothing
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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