Overhanging bushes, pavements and prams

Noggin_1

ognum wrote: »

Oh dear OP, is this really the most important thing in your life to thinks about, a few overhanging bushes. I cny believe how petty some people are. There are many people in the world who have serious problems!

I care about my neighborhood and those living in it, that's all.
I know there are bigger issues in the world, I was just looking for peoples experiences and advice and so far people have been kind enough to reply with useful advice.

Thanks for your useful input!

Tiddlywinks

Gosh - thanks to MSE I now know just how fraught with danger it is to be a parent these days....

In the last week alone we've had dangerously overhanging bushes, insufficient parent and child spaces and a child running in a nursery and hitting his head.... where will it all end?

I now fully accept that the rest of us must absolutely step aside and let the mum and baby through - it appears they now have absolute priority above everyone else.



p.s - it has been raining quite a lot which makes plants grow - with some of us needing to go to work and with very wet weekends it may just be that the owner hasn't been able to get out and do any gardening.

Rosemary7391

There's a difference between not having had a chance recently and not caring at all - one pathway near where I live is pretty much impassable because of the overgrown hedge next to it, it extends across the entire pavement and onto the verge next to it.

PolishBigSpender

Tiddlywinks, you made me laugh

Noggin_1

I know its been raining a bit, there seems to be no end to it. I fully understand things have been growing faster in this weather, I've not been able to mow my lawn in my back garden for 3 weeks either.
There just seems to be quite a few overhanging hedges in my area and quite a few that don't.
I'm also not suggesting anyone must absolutely step aside and let the mum and baby through, this isn't the issue here and I find people are generally very polite when it comes to passing in the street.
Maybe I should just stay in all day, nothing to moan about then!!!

mrcow

Noggin_1 wrote: »

What annoys you when you are walking along the pavement?

Dog !!!!.

It's disgusting. Some people are simply too lazy and foul to deserve to have pets.

Errata

Hedges have been overhanging footways and dripping on passers by for decades. Nobody gives a tinkers cuss unless and until they're directly affected. As the OP points out, they weren't bothered until it affected them. The solution is to complain to the local Parish/Town/District council.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I normally only found hedges a problem when the playgroup Mums insisted on walking a minimum of two abreast with their armoured personnel carriers from Bugabogie or whatever the trendy name is now for the miniature Panzers.



As long as you remember to duck - and to remember your girth is now three times the size of pre-baby times and armoured, to boot, when innocent pedestrians also need to use the same path - I'm sure it'll all be fine

Gloomendoom

OP just take some loppers with you. You are perfectly within your rights to abate an an obstruction on a public highway. Just make sure that you only cut away the minimum necessary to pass though.

Tiddlywinks

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I normally only found hedges a problem when the playgroup Mums insisted on walking a minimum of two abreast with their armoured personnel carriers from Bugabogie or whatever the trendy name is now for the miniature Panzers.

:rotfl:I swear some of these pushchairs are bigger than my car. One tiny baby rattling around in an enormous carriage - you could get Dumbo in one of those things!