I will never understand some people.
We are a small site.Twenty plots.We run alongside a lane with detached houses on the opposite side.The Allotment has been here for about a hundred years.
My neighbour had a visit from someone who lives in a new build opposite.He asked him to move his chair.Plastic dining type style of chair as he could see it from his window. :(
Another guy had a visit from him and he asked him to stop strimming as it was giving his wife a headache :-X
We also had a sudden no bonfire rule,not that we have that many.I suspect this guy was involved.
This man told my allotment neighbour he pays a lot of council tax and he come here to have some peace ::)
Why move opposite an allotment if you do not like the view. :D
::) ::)That's the 'ME' society we live in today. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to ask him to remove his house as your view as been spoilt. And he's not the sort of person you want living down your lane. Does this guy think the rest of us doesn't pay council tax and income tax then. I hope your lottie neighbour pointed this out to him. I would be adding a table, chair and brolly.
As for the view, a few well placed fast growing trees/high edge would soon solve that problem. :o :o Just hope he never wants a plot!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
Quote from: betula on May 18, 2009, 09:04:33
Why move opposite an allotment if you do not like the view. :D
It does make you wonder why doesn't it ???
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That reminds me of a case where an incomer to a village from a city moved into a house near the village church and tried to get the church bells stopped on Sunday cos it woke him up!!!
All together now, Ahhhhhhhh. ::)
Come Christmas time, I would be so tempted to find the tackiest, loudest outdoor decorations I could find and cover the front of my house with them.......in fact why wait for Christmas! ;)
He should stop wingeing... the New Build has a view that isn't other new houses because the lotties are there... :-X
Another guy had a visit from him and he asked him to stop strimming as it was giving his wife a headache
Perhaps his wife has a permanent headache and that is why he is so miserable. Perhaps you could get him on your side with a few courgettes when you get a glut. Or perhaps he will get so annoyed about the view of the chair that he might sell up and move.
Betula, sweet peas growing well, can't wait for them to flower.
Everybody should now get themselves plastic chairs! ;D
Quote from: Borlotti on May 18, 2009, 12:38:14
Another guy had a visit from him and he asked him to stop strimming as it was giving his wife a headache
Perhaps his wife has a permanent headache and that is why he is so miserable. Perhaps you could get him on your side with a few courgettes when you get a glut. Or perhaps he will get so annoyed about the view of the chair that he might sell up and move.
Betula, sweet peas growing well, can't wait for them to flower.
So pleased Borllotti.Maybe some pics when they do flower?
The odd thing is we have a fairly high hedge so he must go upstairs to be offended LOL. ;D
Look at 'How does your plot grow', beautiful plot and shed but can you spot the white plastic chair. Had a digital camera for Xmas and haven't yet found out how to download pictures and post, but will certainly take some of sweet peas and read the manual (which I hate doing, too impatient).
When we lived in East Sussex my neighbour asked ME to write a letter to complain about the farm buildings at the back of our properties and the smell of the silage.
Sorry lady, you shouldn't have moved to the country.
Quote from: betula on May 18, 2009, 09:04:33
My neighbour had a visit from someone who lives in a new build opposite.He asked him to move his chair.Plastic dining type style of chair as he could see it from his window. :(
Tell him to turn around and look the other way.
Or, ask him if he shuts his eyes, does he still see a plastic chair?
Or, would he like to purchase a chair for you that is to his liking?
Quote from: betula on May 18, 2009, 09:04:33
Another guy had a visit from him and he asked him to stop strimming as it was giving his wife a headache :-X
Tell him that chemists sell headache tablets (and give him directions to the nearest one). And tell him to take his wife with him as it may be less noisy there.
Or, ask him if he would like to do the strimming for you when his wife's headache has gone.
May he just want/needs sex, and his wife doesn't.
Quote from: betula on May 18, 2009, 09:04:33
This man told my allotment neighbour he pays a lot of council tax ...
Tell him to write to the council and complain. His council tax is nothing to do with you, and you pay your fair share, and isnt it brilliant what facilities that the council provide for the money.
Quote from: betula on May 18, 2009, 09:04:33
... come here to have some peace ::)
Why move opposite an allotment if you do not like the view. :D
Just laugh and tell him he's come to the wrong place and if he thinks its noisy now, wait until the music
festival(s) start - but he will get a great view without having to buy a ticket.
Try asking him "You're not from around here, are you?" in a strange voice and look
Did he not view the house and area before buying ? Buyer beware.
If you are his neighbour, he is also your neighbour, you could complain about the sight of his car and ask him to move it down the road - see what he says.
Quote from: Borlotti on May 18, 2009, 13:01:30
Look at 'How does your plot grow', beautiful plot and shed but can you spot the white plastic chair.
Perhaps my opposite neighbour (Saddad) will come over and ask me to move it? ;D
I would sit out on the porch and start playing the banjo if I were you.... ;D
I'd invite half a dozen friends (with plastic chairs) and have a barby when they have their washing out... :) Oh and chuck your empty cans into his garden... ;D
Never mind the barby, wait for the wind to blow in his direction and find some tyres to burn :o
Only joking. Tell him to get a life or move!
Quote from: saddad on May 18, 2009, 14:48:35
I'd invite half a dozen friends (with plastic chairs) and have a barby when they have their washing out... :) Oh and chuck your empty cans into his garden... ;D
No that's not right
Recycle the the cans and chuck the plastic chairs in his garden [old broken ones of course]
I'm about to take two old white plastic chairs and an old white plastic table down to my plot...but you can have them if you think it might wind him up a bit more! ;D
We've just had a message round via allotment association from parish council (a bit tongue in cheek from Town Clerk i might add) that the lady across the road from the allotments at Number XX has requested that plotholders stop parking outside her property as they are stopping her parking outside her house (public highway I'm afraid madam!...suffer from this one myself nothing you can do!). Actually very few people park on the road and if they park outside her house it's only accidental as there is usually plenty of spaces.
The householders just across the road are guilty of dumping their rubbish on the allotment site.....perhaps we'll shop them.
::) neighbours ::)
Apparently the people who live in the house that backs onto our plot threatened to sue the previous plottie because.......the birds were dropping elderberry juice on their washing. Still, perhaps they consider chucking their garden tat & building waste over our wall as just deserts.
& our house neighbour kindly watered our plants with jeyes fluid or similar last year because he doesn't like caterpillars in his yard. Worst was, the nozzle fell off his watering can while doing it ( ;D) & had the cheek to ask for it back :o- claimed his grandson threw it over the wall. The white precipitate on nozzle & rapid death of our plants told a different story......... ::)
Quote from: saddad on May 18, 2009, 14:48:35
I'd invite half a dozen friends (with plastic chairs) and have a barby when they have their washing out... :) Oh and chuck your empty cans into his garden... ;D
Wait until he has a bonfire/barby and then hang your washing out in the lottie. Then you can go around and complain about the smoke.
Aren't some people mean :'( Go tell him to get a life and stop tyring to run yours. The man with and the caterpillars phobia needs to work out if he has a garden he also has wildlife ( i know where I'd throw my snails next time) ;D
It's at times like this that I am so glad that my allotment is in the middle of a coucil estate where most folks are glad to have a roof over their head never mind the view being spoiled.
I've got people like that on both sides of me at home. In the garden on Sunday and I noticed my flowering currant had been severely pruned.....and i know it wasn't overhanging his lawn. It's a strip of garden down one side of my house about 4 ft wide which borders directly on his lawn, he's dug up plants i planted there for ground cover hardy geraniums mainly no he's cutting back stuff that is not encroaching on his property.
Last year his lawn treatment nearly killed one of my large shrubs in my back garden, another flowering currant...he claimed he didn't use any weed killer but most people don't know there is a very strong weedkiller in most lawn treatments so i warned him not to get it near his own shrubs if he ever used it.
The guy on the other side is worse, won't go into that!
Tell him to put some conifers in, ;)
Reading this reminds me of the time my neighbour said that a house extension that someone on the road had done was not that much trouble to him as he could only see it when he stood on a chair and looked out of the top left hand corner of his bedroom window.
Begs the question.............why?????????
I'd be straight round the car boots and buy as many chairs as I could and line em up, what a pratt, why oh why do they moan about living near lotties, footie grounds and pubs they were there years and years before them, as already said if you don't like it feck off and live somewhere else. :( ;D ;D ;D
I think you should make a VERY TALL SCULPTURE out of as many plastic chairs as possible .....
.... then get a naked gardener to stand in a pose on top of it (see other thread) .... ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Mr Smith on May 19, 2009, 09:35:13
Tell him to put some conifers in, ;)
They grow at the rate of at least three feet a year
Quote from: Twoflower on May 19, 2009, 06:53:56
Aren't some people mean :'( Go tell him to get a life and stop tyring to run yours. The man with and the caterpillars phobia needs to work out if he has a garden he also has wildlife ( i know where I'd throw my snails next time) ;D
Ha - wouldn't even inflict him on my snails ;D. He admitted to OH last week that he killed our plants last year. & then seemed to threaten our rose bush too. Apparently his wall is about to fall down (::))because the roots are pushing through it so wants us to remove it. & he regularly offers to chop our forsythia back because it casts shadows on his TV screen at a certain time of the day (it's very bushy, not near his property & only 6 foot - 8 perhaps when it has a bit of a spurt).
He does it all in such an annoyingly pseudo-nice way though. He is very understanding of our hatred of gardening ;) as he doesn't like it either so says we should just to poison the lot cos that's what he does with his. Wonder when we tell him we have a lottie - can you imagine!? Maybe we should nonchalantly offer him some of our first harvest?
Luckily for me it's OH who he almost always collars for one of his rants. It grates on me enough hearing it second hand.