Poor Nanny Beach, I do sympathise. Definitely no more lifting for a while, you’d better spend today with your feet up and give your ‘bits’ a chance to return to nearer normal. Hope the cat turns up safely.
I've seen plenty of confusing addresses. I did some 'Christmas casual' work for Royal Mail years ago and helped out on a delivery round. Two properties, part of the same 'semi' had the same house number. One had an address in the road they were facing, the other was an address for the road at the side of the pair.
My sister-in-law had a street name sign attached to their fence by the council, but her house isn't in that street. Once again a corner property 'mislabelled'.
I've said it before but if you don't have a house name or number large enough and visible enough that it can be seen from the road by someone in a hurry in the dark then you can't seriously expect people to find your house. Your tiny handcrafted sign with incomprehensible scrolled writing tucked away inside the porch looks lovely I'm sure but it's as much use as an England player in a penalty shootout. There's a monumental mason up the road here who has hand crafted his house sign from an offcut of gravestone marble and set it into his front wall. Number, street name, RIP, the lot. I bet delivery drivers weep with joy to see it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
But we do @wild edges, we put up a second one a few months ago, on a stand alone post with white numbers, and a solar light above it. It even has a pile of white painted stones at it's foot to show up in car lights.
That post is opposite the original numberplate at the end of the fencing but has stainless steel numbers. Admittedly they don't show up as well. We also have the house number in shiny brass high up on the house wall.
Perhaps we should have a finger post right at the corner with 'This Way' written on it!
I've seen plenty of confusing addresses. I did some 'Christmas casual' work for Royal Mail years ago and helped out on a delivery round. Two properties, part of the same 'semi' had the same house number. One had an address in the road they were facing, the other was an address for the road at the side of the pair.
My sister-in-law had a street name sign attached to their fence by the council, but her house isn't in that street. Once again a corner property 'mislabelled'.
I've said it before but if you don't have a house name or number large enough and visible enough that it can be seen from the road by someone in a hurry in the dark then you can't seriously expect people to find your house. Your tiny handcrafted sign with incomprehensible scrolled writing tucked away inside the porch looks lovely I'm sure but it's as much use as an England player in a penalty shootout. There's a monumental mason up the road here who has hand crafted his house sign from an offcut of gravestone marble and set it into his front wall. Number, street name, RIP, the lot. I bet delivery drivers weep with joy to see it.
The properties I mentioned are both on housing estates and the numbers are the 'standard' size as fitted by the developers. The problem in both cases isn't the identifier on the door, it's the poor signage installed by the council. My s-i-l has gone to the extent of adding a larger sign with the number of the property and the name of the street and has put it beside the front door. She still has delivery people saying they can't find the address.
My house in Dordogne bears the same name as the hamlet, no number, no street name, though the town 5 minutes away is part of the address. The postman told me he had to memorise people's names. Then I read in the paper that the French government had decreed that all houses should be given a number and street name by the Mairie by the end of this year. I rang the Mairie and they said they hadn't got around to it yet but they would eventually and they would let me know.
OH's previous cottage was No 15. There was no No. 13 because it's an unlucky number, but there was, among the even numbers opposite, a No 15B to make up for the lack of 13.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The village I grew up in has about 20 houses. Our dog used to sleep in the road on warm days because there was so little traffic. Hardly anyone had house names on signs at the front because the same postman always did the route and if there was any doubt he'd just leave it with someone else and they'd deliver it for him. It was only when couriers started delivering that I learned most of the house names, they'd ask for directions and I'd have to ask the person's name on the parcel rather than the house name. I still don't know a few of the house names and I don't know most of the people living there anymore.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Hope the cat turns up safely.
There's a monumental mason up the road here who has hand crafted his house sign from an offcut of gravestone marble and set it into his front wall. Number, street name, RIP, the lot. I bet delivery drivers weep with joy to see it.
That post is opposite the original numberplate at the end of the fencing but has stainless steel numbers. Admittedly they don't show up as well. We also have the house number in shiny brass high up on the house wall.
Perhaps we should have a finger post right at the corner with 'This Way' written on it!
The properties I mentioned are both on housing estates and the numbers are the 'standard' size as fitted by the developers. The problem in both cases isn't the identifier on the door, it's the poor signage installed by the council. My s-i-l has gone to the extent of adding a larger sign with the number of the property and the name of the street and has put it beside the front door. She still has delivery people saying they can't find the address.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH's previous cottage was No 15. There was no No. 13 because it's an unlucky number, but there was, among the even numbers opposite, a No 15B to make up for the lack of 13.