Our house is like yours @Busy-Lizzie, with the name of the hamlet outside our front gate. We gained a street name and house number a year or two before we bought the place but some satnavs still haven't picked it up. Fortunately the post lady is very efficient and we can get none PO parcel deliveries directed to a local relay service to avoid problems. Nobody ever throws anything over the gate or under the hedge.
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)."
My cousin lived on a road where all the houses had names and none displayed a number. When I asked her what the house number was she had to think hard. Lack of a number makes deliveries so much harder for new posties trying to sort the round into order.
We were like you @Busy-Lizzie and then last year we were given a number and a street name and still some of the delivery drivers can't or won't find us without ringing first to find out where we are! La Poste have said they may not deliver mail that doesn't have a street and number on it, so I hope your Mairie gets a move on!
As to numbering houses, it doesn't help where two go missing, there's a house the other side of the road to us which has one number, but the next two in the sequence are missing before ours. We've never been able to find out why. The road used to be part of a field where there had never been any houses. Mystifying - especially to delivery men!
My parcel hasn't been delivered today, still stuck in the depot according to their website, despite it saying parcels get automatically re-delivered on the next working day - oh no they don't!
Plenty of complaints about the new style pylons which the National Grid are installing from HPC Nuclear over towards Bristol. They are ugly in comparison to the old style pylons but assume ( hope ? ) that there is some logic behind their design.
Are those the 'Pat Butcher' pylons? Considering it's taken 10 years and a design competition to come up with the new design I must admit I'm a bit underwhelmed. If nothing else the old ones had space for bird nests and things.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Our cul de sac is numbered consecutively rather than odd numbers on one side and evens on the other … we’re at No 2 but we frequently get deliveries for No 3 because delivery folk just take it for granted that the house next to No 1 will be No 3 ….
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Lizzie27 Our house is no. 2 and our neighbour no. 6 but ours was originally a row of 3 cottages. The end cottage between us and no. 6 was demolished in the 50's and their house was built in 1990 something. I don't know if the 3 cottages were 2, 4, 6 but that would seem logical, the neighbour on the other side (also built in the 90's) doesn't have a number at all.
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As to numbering houses, it doesn't help where two go missing, there's a house the other side of the road to us which has one number, but the next two in the sequence are missing before ours. We've never been able to find out why. The road used to be part of a field where there had never been any houses. Mystifying - especially to delivery men!
My parcel hasn't been delivered today, still stuck in the depot according to their website, despite it saying parcels get automatically re-delivered on the next working day - oh no they don't!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.