Hi Flowering rose,the reason is quite simple really they believe that it's not there job , after all they have you , ? would it be possible for you to organise your neighbours to maybe once a month or even twice a year to clean your road weeding the verges picking discarded rubbish up and may be offering to less able body home owners help in keeping the area in front of there homes tidy .
Chica, I have just realised that my reply to your post sounds as though I was trying to be rude to you. My ideas for what to do with her dog ends all involve her, not you!
Chica- I had a similar problem when staying at my parents' house. The neighbours' partner chucked his fag ends over the joint fence. I just collected them all up, in a bag, went round, knocked on door & gave them back to neighbour!! It worked, but neighbour herself was mortified & partner didnt actually live there.... J.
How to create poetic justice without actually quarrelling or creating a feud, that's the problem. Otherwise, I could think of a few answers, such as making fairy cakes with a fag end baked in the centre of each and giving them to her, gift-wrapped. If only... Sadly, thanks to all the chemical additives, they are not even any good for composting. The only thing I can really think of is to build a bonfire on a windy day, throw on the fag ends and light it when she has washing on the line.
Rants, sounds more like revenge, did that a few times in the army although it is not the pleasant feeling we expect. This is a rant, Windmills erected on a lovely bit of coast well within sight of the Promenade that on the three coldest days were incapable of producing electricity because we did not have enough wind. Green taxes because of our tiny footprint on the world when Germany are to build ten new coal fired power staions China and India using coal by the millions of tons, we are closing ours down with no back up, the rest of the world must think we have totally lost it. Being an engineer I know the footprint of those large gear boxes filled with oil on top of the windmill towers, if they published the facts they would have mass riots on their hands, we may as well close the Country down now as it will happen sooner than we think, no chatting on laptops then, no electricity.
TinaTurner - don't get me started on yappy pathetic excuses for real dogs argh!
My bug bear - tenants across gardens from us (we have full view of their back dumps, sorry, gardens - rubbish areas for old tyres, knackered kids ride-ons, Not a loved plant in sight except for enornous weeds. One of these families has 3 kids and the back garden is used a dogs' toilet, so kids not even allowed out there.
They are both council tenants and it gets to me so much because I have friends in council flats stuck up on upper floors, in cramped conditions, with kids, who would give their right arm for that green space.
Surely council tenants ought to be liable for their gardens if they're lucky enough to get a house with a flipping garden?!
Great rant, Palaisglide. You're right, too. We have destroyed our own wealth by closing down our industries, including coal-production, for stupid and short-sighted reasons - short-term economies, long-term decline and loss. The issue of sustainable energy is a huge one and the only real hope is that, since necessity is the mother of invention, someone will come up with a brilliant solution in time.
You're right about the revenge. too - but I was actually joking.
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I've got a few ideas, all unprintable.
BTW clogherhead, speaking as the 'she who must be obeyed' of our house, your wife sounds like a good woman!
Hi Flowering rose,the reason is quite simple really they believe that it's not there job , after all they have you , ? would it be possible for you to organise your neighbours to maybe once a month or even twice a year to clean your road weeding the verges picking discarded rubbish up and may be offering to less able body home owners help in keeping the area in front of there homes tidy .
Derek
what do you think of that rant
Hi GG she is when she's not there
Chica, read the" Giggler treatment " (children's book)
Derek
Chica, I have just realised that my reply to your post sounds as though I was trying to be rude to you. My ideas for what to do with her dog ends all involve her, not you!
Chica- I had a similar problem when staying at my parents' house. The neighbours' partner chucked his fag ends over the joint fence. I just collected them all up, in a bag, went round, knocked on door & gave them back to neighbour!! It worked, but neighbour herself was mortified & partner didnt actually live there.... J.
How to create poetic justice without actually quarrelling or creating a feud, that's the problem. Otherwise, I could think of a few answers, such as making fairy cakes with a fag end baked in the centre of each and giving them to her, gift-wrapped. If only... Sadly, thanks to all the chemical additives, they are not even any good for composting. The only thing I can really think of is to build a bonfire on a windy day, throw on the fag ends and light it when she has washing on the line.
Rants, sounds more like revenge, did that a few times in the army although it is not the pleasant feeling we expect.
This is a rant, Windmills erected on a lovely bit of coast well within sight of the Promenade that on the three coldest days were incapable of producing electricity because we did not have enough wind.
Green taxes because of our tiny footprint on the world when Germany are to build ten new coal fired power staions China and India using coal by the millions of tons, we are closing ours down with no back up, the rest of the world must think we have totally lost it.
Being an engineer I know the footprint of those large gear boxes filled with oil on top of the windmill towers, if they published the facts they would have mass riots on their hands, we may as well close the Country down now as it will happen sooner than we think, no chatting on laptops then, no electricity.
Frank.
TinaTurner -
don't get me started on yappy pathetic excuses for real dogs argh!
My bug bear - tenants across gardens from us (we have full view of their back dumps, sorry, gardens - rubbish areas for old tyres, knackered kids ride-ons, Not a loved plant in sight except for enornous weeds. One of these families has 3 kids and the back garden is used a dogs' toilet, so kids not even allowed out there.
They are both council tenants and it gets to me so much because I have friends in council flats stuck up on upper floors, in cramped conditions, with kids, who would give their right arm for that green space.
Surely council tenants ought to be liable for their gardens if they're lucky enough to get a house with a flipping garden?!
Rant over.
Oh and thank you Gardening G for original post!
Great rant, Palaisglide. You're right, too. We have destroyed our own wealth by closing down our industries, including coal-production, for stupid and short-sighted reasons - short-term economies, long-term decline and loss. The issue of sustainable energy is a huge one and the only real hope is that, since necessity is the mother of invention, someone will come up with a brilliant solution in time.
You're right about the revenge. too - but I was actually joking.