Artjac, if only people looked after their gardens the whole environment would be different for us all. Also, working in the garden you get to meet and talk to your neighbours and maybe swap a plant or two. I don't understand people who are oblivious to the environment and don't seem affected by whether it is beautiful or ugly. I'll bet it is the same people who don't pick up after their dogs (actually, I first wrote this as 'don't lick up after their dogs' but I suppose that is asking a bit too much!) To me, it is a sign of ignorance and utter selfishness. Rant over.
Derek, I hope the fine is for not picking up poo rather than letting your dog poo, or I'd be down thousands. Mine usually do two poos each on a walk and I'm to be seen with a couple of well-filled black plastic bags dangling from my fingers. I used to have to go to a bin a couple of streets away but the council have now put one near my house. Perhaps they have heard about my dogs and their excessive poo production! I also have to garden in poo-proof gloves.
I trod in some dog pooh the other week when I was out in the garden, it was soft and went into all the grooves in my wellies, nightmare of a job to clean and nobody came near me for a week.
Frank, just read your post a few pages back about neighbours. I heard a lovely story a few years ago (40?) A man is about to buy a house in an area he doesn't know; he sees an old lady in the front garden next to the prospective purchase and says, 'What are the neighbours like around here, are they allright?'
She replies, 'They are probably the same as where you live now'.
I guess the moral is that unless we are really living next to a sociopath, the way our neighbours are is no more irritating than the way we are.
Me, irritating? Moi? I'm the only one with any sense in the entire street! Nobody speaks to me but it isn't because I'm a pain! It is entirely their own poor taste.
it certainly is GG although its getting late my rant for the day is cos my back garden runs alongside a school playing field the kids(the little angels) congregate in a corner two feet away from the boundery to have a fag then they decide to throw whats left of there lunch over my garden,bananas,tune rolls the lots,the other day they took great delight in pulling off a branch and lobbing it over, i phone up the school,who do nothing i shout at the kids who give me a load of abuse so latly i collectit all up and just lob it back.i doubt if the headmistrice know what goes on should i write to her, rant over ahh thats better
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Artjac, if only people looked after their gardens the whole environment would be different for us all. Also, working in the garden you get to meet and talk to your neighbours and maybe swap a plant or two. I don't understand people who are oblivious to the environment and don't seem affected by whether it is beautiful or ugly. I'll bet it is the same people who don't pick up after their dogs (actually, I first wrote this as 'don't lick up after their dogs' but I suppose that is asking a bit too much!) To me, it is a sign of ignorance and utter selfishness. Rant over.
Derek, I hope the fine is for not picking up poo rather than letting your dog poo, or I'd be down thousands. Mine usually do two poos each on a walk and I'm to be seen with a couple of well-filled black plastic bags dangling from my fingers. I used to have to go to a bin a couple of streets away but the council have now put one near my house. Perhaps they have heard about my dogs and their excessive poo production! I also have to garden in poo-proof gloves.
GG
My gardening shoes are awaiting cleaning at this very moment!
Think I may feel more up to the job in the morning. Or after the weekend...
Hello Flower Bird.
Frank, just read your post a few pages back about neighbours. I heard a lovely story a few years ago (40?) A man is about to buy a house in an area he doesn't know; he sees an old lady in the front garden next to the prospective purchase and says, 'What are the neighbours like around here, are they allright?'
She replies, 'They are probably the same as where you live now'.
I guess the moral is that unless we are really living next to a sociopath, the way our neighbours are is no more irritating than the way we are.
Me, irritating? Moi? I'm the only one with any sense in the entire street! Nobody speaks to me but it isn't because I'm a pain! It is entirely their own poor taste.
Isn't it....?
it certainly is GG although its getting late my rant for the day is cos my back garden runs alongside a school playing field the kids(the little angels) congregate in a corner two feet away from the boundery to have a fag then they decide to throw whats left of there lunch over my garden,bananas,tune rolls the lots,the other day they took great delight in pulling off a branch and lobbing it over, i phone up the school,who do nothing i shout at the kids who give me a load of abuse so latly i collectit all up and just lob it back.i doubt if the headmistrice know what goes on should i write to her, rant over ahh thats better