As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

stiltwalker

ChocClare wrote: »

In pictura est puella. Puella est Cornelia.

Ecce Romani Book I, Line I. Cornelia had a friend called Flavia. Her brother was called Marcus and his friend was called Sextus. I think.

Cast your mind back, mar. If I can remember it, you can. Repeat after me: I DO remember my Latin

Cornelia est puella romana. Flavia cantat! (sp)

Cornelia is a roman girl, Flavia sings. - We had that book too! How seriously tedious were the stories?

modern_millie_2

Hippeechiq, can't add any further suggestions, poor you having to put up with such horrible neighbours. Netting sounds like a good idea,maybe a prickly plant as well.

Hippeechiq

Thanks very much for the replies.

I can't really plant Holly Mary as my garden was all paved by the previous tenant, so no earth to plant it in.

The previous tenant also had a small pond, approx 3½' sq (on the opposite side to the fence) that we have drained and are throwing fruit & veggie peelings and plant/tree cuttings into (I have a tiny 12" dwarf walled border on the opposite side of the garden with mature plants in it and a large buddleia tree at the bottom of the garden) with a view to attempting to grow something in it next year - this is where the cat goes.

Netting is a good idea I think, thanks Smiley & RAS, especially if you can get it from the £1 type shops, as I could put netting over the empty pond. I also have empty plastic compost sacks that I could lay in it actually. I will put netting over the hole in the fence too, although if the netting stops the cat getting through, it will simply come over the top.

The netting wont give me any privacy, but if they can't see in, I've seen them lean heavily on the panel to peer over the top, and the whole panel buckles. They have no sense.

If they do that many times, the whole panel will go, and then we will be faced with a 5' wide by 6' tall hole. It wouldn't bother them at all if I could see into their garden, but it bothers me not having any privacy. I hate it ....I don't feel like I can win to be honest.

I could do a diary Smiley, but I might end up with someone even worse

EstherH

Molly41 wrote: »

Yes I planned and cooked a meal for my Gcse and remember making pineapple upside down for the pudding - its still my piece d'resistance !

Oh yes, I remember pineapple upside down pudding.

Seems most on here were grammar school educated not inner city comprehensive like me but this thread seems to be a leveller.

EstherH

Hippeechiq: could you put Holly in a pot in front of the panel?

redlady_1

Better still put another higher fence, on your side of the boundary. There is chuff all they can do then and it gives you privacy. It will be on your property so if they touch it have them prosecuted!!!

I dropped Latin as soon as I possibly could. I was pants at any form of languages. Those bloody tenses got me every time

Hippeechiq

As I mentioned in my OP Redlady I have no money for a fence of my own...I wish I did hun

I possibly could put a potted Holly in front of the panel Esther , but the hole in the fence starts at the height of about 3½' and goes to approx 5' so I'm guessing that a Holly plant that size would be more than I can afford.....lost my job in Jan last year, and then within a couple of months had to become full time registered carer (unpaid) to DD who suffers with severe mental health problems, and so I need a cheap OS solution.

No, I don't want the cat coming into my garden and c.rapping everywhere, but it's my invasion of privacy that upsets me the most, and the more I think about it, the less I can see how I'm able to regain it.

The netting would stop the cat coming through the fence, so it will simply go over, and if I find a way to cover the hole in the fence, the idiots will lean on the fence to peer over, and so I risk having no fence panel at all.

I like the water pistol idea, and I've also been scouting the internet for info. Suggestions are moth balls, but short of glueing them (if they would glue to the top of the fence panel) which the neighbours would in all probability pull off anyway - I'm not sure how/were else I could use them as a deterrent.

Another was lemons, but a) I don't really want a load of lemons sitting along the entire length of the top of the fence, and b) again, the idiot neighbours would probably remove them.

Another suggestion was garlic powder mixed with water and used as a spray. If I sprayed where I think the cat will go, I can understand it stopping the cat from doing it's business once it was in the garden, but I want to stop it from getting over in the first place, and if I were to spray it all along the length of the fence, it would entirely evaporate, surely?

floss2

Hippeechiq - coarse gravel or broken sticks stuck into the ground randomly will deter the cat - he won't "go" where he will get a sore bum!

culpepper

Hippeechiq I think if I lived next door to those people,I would make a compost bin from old pallets or some wire and posts and that would be the ideal place to leave it(not a posh bought one cause it would get abused in spite).
Filled with paper,plant cuttings and some mud,it would be useful for getting rid of garden waste and block the view to your home and the hole.
It wont solve the cat thing but maybe the cat will keep the rat problem down and not be such a bad thing in the long run.

redlady_1

Sorry Hippee...that will teach me to skim read! The water pistol will definitely keep the cat out but you need to be "on patrol" all the time. These muppets sound like quality people.

How about um, "relocating" a wild bramble bush and sticking it in a pot and trailing it along the fence?