Thanks for sharing your story Duk. Its good to stand up and speak one's mind you always feel so much better afterwards I definitely do. I admire people with guts and self belief excluding politicians of course.
I don't know about the self-belief. That MoD encounter was over 30 years ago now. You could say it was a light-bulb moment. Suddenly so many things made sense which they hadn't until then. I've been a people-watcher ever since and I check my facts before I act to right an apparent wrong. It's quite useful having a 'reputation' for speaking my piece but it does help that I owe allegiance to none though there are some I would back to the hilt
It isn't only allotments which cause problems. This morning I was accosted by a neighbour who wanted to know what I had been doing to the Ash tree which had shed many of its leaves over his grass! I didn't give him what for as I'm well aware he isn't quite the brightest button. I pointed out that the tree shed its leaves in the autumn every year and as we had had a frost a couple days ago, hey presto. He looked puzzled and then said he hadn't noticed it do it before. I refrained from pointing out that was because his garden tends to look more like an overgrown hay meadow so a ton or two of leaves would hardly make an impression. This year his son has been cutting the 'lawn' and had done so the day before the frost so the leaves really did show up. They are, of course, all over my side of the fence as well but the tree is nothing to do with either of us. One bonus though, there are no seeds at all on it so that will save me hours of pulling up impertinent baby trees all of next year.
My next door neighbour(now moved) moaned at me a couple of years ago because the oak tree was shedding its leaves on her grass too. And asked me if i could do anything about it........none so queer as folk
Last time the same neighbour came running down the garden it was to tell me to stop throwing my weeds into his garden. I had to point out they weren't my weeds at all but his coming through the fence. His garden has been untended for years with piles of rubbish at the bottom end as well and the previous tenant was no better. Although her son and/or grandson used to cut the grass occasionally they never, ever did the edges. When I decided to use the strip against that fence I carefully lined the ground and lower fence and planted everything in tubs so nothing could come up my side. The withywind, however, simply climbs the fence and pops through or over to say helloee. That's what I was tossing back over. If his side had been looked after I would have disposed of anything which came my way but as it is it makes no difference at all to his side. He would never have known if he hadn't been watching me out of his window.
Just tell the old fart that you're gonna climb up the tree and stick all the leaves on with superglue!!! Or he could do what we all do and gather the little creeps up and compost or bin them!! Problem solved!!
Dorset...do what I did with my neighbour....I waited till they went out then sprayed the whole area next to my fence with really strong weedkiller to kill the invasive ivy. Again, problem solved.
Actually I too have an interesting neighbor behind me who moved in about 3 yrs ago. They decided to replace the joining fence which was actually theirs and came knocking on our door for us to pay half? excuse me, their decision, their choice of panels etc. When I told them that previously it had been replaced by their predecessor which turned out to be his father! The couple insisted it was shared and we have to pay-good grief. Being that his father had built the hse and his wife mother was a solicitor I began to doubt. However I asked them if they had ever paid for anything they had never seen or bought? neither had I -she stormed off. When the hurricane flattened the fence and their dog and toddler were effected the fence went up.
Whey plotter , back to your original problem lots of advice and suggestions , basically the people who run it seem totally incompetent , you should get your money back , the idea of sharing the other plot seems good to me , as it wasn't his fault either , if he want help that is
Have you got time to join the committe and sort them out
Well I do lean over and spray along as far as I can. The main problem at one end is a rather large heap of hedge cuttings and various other such stuff which also encourages nettles as does the old machinery dumped at the other end, It's such a pity as it's all a gentle south west facing slope away from his house. Big enough for a veggie garden as well as flowers, shrubs etc. There's some fantastic but overgrown honeysuckle, lilac and hardy fuchsia, rhubarb (never gets used) and a small apple tree. All those have been there years before he moved in presumably when the previous was still able to use it.
We do get on alright most of the time just that he suddenly gets a bee in his bonnet and doesn't stop to think. I've had a lot worse for certain
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I don't know about the self-belief. That MoD encounter was over 30 years ago now. You could say it was a light-bulb moment. Suddenly so many things made sense which they hadn't until then. I've been a people-watcher ever since and I check my facts before I act to right an apparent wrong. It's quite useful having a 'reputation' for speaking my piece but it does help that I owe allegiance to none though there are some I would back to the hilt
It isn't only allotments which cause problems. This morning I was accosted by a neighbour who wanted to know what I had been doing to the Ash tree which had shed many of its leaves over his grass! I didn't give him what for as I'm well aware he isn't quite the brightest button. I pointed out that the tree shed its leaves in the autumn every year and as we had had a frost a couple days ago, hey presto. He looked puzzled and then said he hadn't noticed it do it before. I refrained from pointing out that was because his garden tends to look more like an overgrown hay meadow so a ton or two of leaves would hardly make an impression. This year his son has been cutting the 'lawn' and had done so the day before the frost so the leaves really did show up. They are, of course, all over my side of the fence as well but the tree is nothing to do with either of us. One bonus though, there are no seeds at all on it so that will save me hours of pulling up impertinent baby trees all of next year.
Lol Duk, you do make me smile.
My next door neighbour(now moved) moaned at me a couple of years ago because the oak tree was shedding its leaves on her grass too. And asked me if i could do anything about it........none so queer as folk
SGL- Perhaps you should have asked for some glue to stick them back. Honestly neighbors- who wants them? ours aren't too bad though.
Last time the same neighbour came running down the garden it was to tell me to stop throwing my weeds into his garden. I had to point out they weren't my weeds at all but his coming through the fence. His garden has been untended for years with piles of rubbish at the bottom end as well and the previous tenant was no better. Although her son and/or grandson used to cut the grass occasionally they never, ever did the edges. When I decided to use the strip against that fence I carefully lined the ground and lower fence and planted everything in tubs so nothing could come up my side. The withywind, however, simply climbs the fence and pops through or over to say helloee. That's what I was tossing back over. If his side had been looked after I would have disposed of anything which came my way but as it is it makes no difference at all to his side. He would never have known if he hadn't been watching me out of his window.
Just tell the old fart that you're gonna climb up the tree and stick all the leaves on with superglue!!! Or he could do what we all do and gather the little creeps up and compost or bin them!! Problem solved!!
Dorset...do what I did with my neighbour....I waited till they went out then sprayed the whole area next to my fence with really strong weedkiller to kill the invasive ivy. Again, problem solved.
Whey plotter , back to your original problem lots of advice and suggestions , basically the people who run it seem totally incompetent , you should get your money back , the idea of sharing the other plot seems good to me , as it wasn't his fault either , if he want help that is
Have you got time to join the committe and sort them out
Best of luck
Well I do lean over and spray along as far as I can. The main problem at one end is a rather large heap of hedge cuttings and various other such stuff which also encourages nettles as does the old machinery dumped at the other end, It's such a pity as it's all a gentle south west facing slope away from his house. Big enough for a veggie garden as well as flowers, shrubs etc. There's some fantastic but overgrown honeysuckle, lilac and hardy fuchsia, rhubarb (never gets used) and a small apple tree. All those have been there years before he moved in presumably when the previous was still able to use it.
We do get on alright most of the time just that he suddenly gets a bee in his bonnet and doesn't stop to think. I've had a lot worse for certain