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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 11:22:11 GMT
WOOHOO! my neighbour has ordered a skip!
Seems an odd thing to be pleased about but her garden is such an eyesore,and I have a clear view of it now Ive taken down the Lavatera and cut out the rotten branches in my old lilac tree, I could post photos but somehow that seems to be wrong on so many levels!
Im sooooo pleased that all the broken furniture and the rotten rat infested shed will be gone .... pleased, I should say so!
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 12, 2006 11:42:22 GMT
Oh go on SL be a devil, you have got me wondering what it's like now. It would be good to see some before and after pics. Go on pretty pretty pretty please  ;D ;D |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 12:01:14 GMT
I tried to go and take a pic but shes watching me...  this going to take time! ;D ;D (007 smiley) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2006 14:14:57 GMT
I must admit I'm intrigued too.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2006 15:09:50 GMT
Sweetleaf, you've made us all curious now - now only about the neighbour's neglected garden, but about the contents of the skip. I can't pass a skip by without a good rummage - and you find the most amazing things, particularly in skips outside really old houses. You never know what could be in amongst that <broken furniture> ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 15:43:42 GMT
I have taken some pics but have to wait for OH to get home to get them on the pc (hes got the bluetooth with him) and from there to photobucket, Canarycreeper I cant approach the skip(s) the smell is disgusting!..... Shes been stuffing bin bags behind the shed for years  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2006 15:47:16 GMT
Oh dear ... love skips, but years-old bin bags .... yeeuch ....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2006 15:48:42 GMT
OMG that's dreadful - I wonder how many rats she's disturbed - hope you've got some bike clips.  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 12, 2006 16:02:53 GMT
Sneek a photo - you know you want to!!! ;D
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 18:17:07 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 12, 2006 18:59:52 GMT
Well done SL007, from what you described and what I can see in the pics it must be horrible having that lot next door. I wonder what has made them suddenly decide to clear it all out
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 19:03:58 GMT
Weeell, hopefully she wants to sell up, OH says he wouldnt mind buying it and knocking through................Of course wearing protective clothing and gas masks |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 12, 2006 19:07:38 GMT
Oooooh that would be nice for you, fingers crossed, more garden. On that 1st pic is there someone sat on a chair in the bottom right corner of the garden. Or am I imagining it.  And......... are there 2 skips |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 12, 2006 19:17:00 GMT
The boy on the chair is her son, he has had to do all the work while she supervises from a distance, G&T in hand (that being her only exercise)  I just found out he paid for the skips too, bless him. |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 12, 2006 20:30:08 GMT
Sounds like you would be well rid if they do move, fingers crossed for you. Lets hope the skip company are quick at collecting if the smell is bad. Keep us posted.  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 13, 2006 7:21:45 GMT
OMG! And you say that's not the full horror??? What a nightmare!
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 13, 2006 9:49:29 GMT
Just so you dont get the wrong idea she is the only one, now, around here with this attitude towards her property,(and it is hers), all my other neighbours take a real pride in their homes and gardens and spend a lot of time and effort keeping them nice.
There has been a real improvement over time as tenants have bought their properties and improved them, she on the other hand, cant even be bothered to put out her rubbish for the bin man... Im just unlucky, I suppose, that this woman is my neighbour. She is only 38 by the way and in no way disabled .....just slovenly.
All work has stopped now, unfortunately, it seems my hopes of a proper clean up will be dashed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2006 11:00:06 GMT
Perhaps she is just exhausted Sweetleaf - fingers crossed she will continue her tidy up tomorrow. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2006 11:14:16 GMT
Oh dear Sweetleaf, it does sound bad - sorry I was blithely joking about the joys of skips yesterday. Your neighbour sounds like the woman we bought our house from - it's amazing that there are perfectly able-bodied people who don't mind living amongst refuse (it was the first time I'd ever seen rats up close and personal). Also feel sorry for the son. Hopefully they'll finish the job ... and perhaps she'll be so impressed by the lack of dirt that she'll turn over a new leaf . And even decide to do something with that enormous garden ... cheers and fingers crossed ... |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 13, 2006 13:14:35 GMT
skips are full...she says.. I know I could have sqeezed more in,and they get picked up tomorrow, she didnt do any work outside herself, and the shed is still full to bursting point. Shes leaned an old door against the aperture but as one wall is falling down, who does she think shes kidding?  |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 14, 2006 19:54:48 GMT
Did they manage to squeaze any more in the skips before they went today. |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 14, 2006 19:59:46 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 14, 2006 20:17:03 GMT
What a shame, those skips are around a £110 each round here. I certainly wouldn't have sent one back half full at that price, but then you said the son paid for them. She sounds like a funny one.
Neighbours !!!!, I had an odd one who kept coming into my gdn, bringing me cups of T, cakes, biscuits, even lunch on a tray on a couple of occasions. One time I was on the phone sat on my bench in the gdn and she came and sat nxt to me, I kept on the phone and didn't make eye contact with her, I was fuming, 30 minutes later she still sat there. It got beyond a joke and so as not to offend I made up some story about local sheds and out buildings being broken into and that I was going to get some locks for my 3 sheds and the back gate. That stopped her in her tracks.
Hope thing improve for you with nxt door.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2006 15:23:59 GMT
Have things improved a bit after their clear-out, Sweetleaf?
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 24, 2006 15:28:20 GMT
Nah theyve started putting more stuff in the garden, Im going to have to report them to the council soon, I think as there are rats nesting under their rubbishshed. OH doesnt want me to do it because he thinks it will start a war!  |
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Post by Spruance on Oct 24, 2006 15:32:58 GMT
Can't you report them anonymously Sweetleaf, or at least ask the Council not to reveal your details. I must admit that I have reported a former neighbour for exactly the same situation. He was not best pleased, but he never found out that it was me that reported him! |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 24, 2006 15:54:33 GMT
I'd get them reported SL you should be able to do it annonymously. It's that time of year when the rats are starting to be seen about. Saw one today rummaging about in front of one of my sheds. We always get them about and have to bait up. Have horses and chickens next door and across the back of our house so inevitable that we get them about.  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 24, 2006 16:05:12 GMT
If thats possible I should be able to do it without OH knowing, too ;D Ill have a word with them and see whats what................ |
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 2, 2006 20:10:54 GMT
Anything update for us SL |
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Post by sweetleaf on Nov 2, 2006 20:17:40 GMT
I had a word with a friend of mine, whos a Pest Control Officer, he says he will add them anonymously to his friends "round" by computer! That way there is nothing on record to say who reported them. Sneaky I know, but what else can I do? I found two dead rats in the garden last week, but my 3 cats cant keep up with the rats breeding rate!  |
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