wheelie bin placement issue

Lord_Baltimore

Debbie4121 wrote: »

We once owned a house on a road......yawn.........to waist hight and then fell over!

Dear Lord, as an anecdotal after dinner speaker you could send a glass eye to sleep Debbie .

Walcott wrote: »

I don't disagree with you there. A good neighbourhood requires participation by all residents.

But the second paragraph is a cop out. I would be more than willing to accommodate any direct requests, within reason. But sorry, if you don't show me the courtesy of coming to me and instead talk to a second, third, fourth person and so on then don't expect accommodating on my part. No point in putting the bins in the rights place and making a street look good when the people inside those houses have no basic manners.

PS: I also disagree on Jay-Z and Snoop Dog

I do know what you mean about the direct approach; however, people with less confidence than say, yourself, might struggle with such confrontation. I dunno, there's not much respect these days for senior citizens even though we know their ways are quaintly old-fashioned and it wouldn't hurt to make a little allowance to accommodate them.

Perhaps a few Roma next door will persuade people that the oldies aren't so bad after all.

PS: rap music is utter trash .

skivenov

I used to live next door to what in interests of accuracy, I will call a whinging old b*****d.

His list of complaints to my landlord included "they sometimes wear scruffy clothes". Errrr, sorry, but I'm a shopfitter, when I wear a suit to work, the tie gets in the way.

He finally stopped complaining about my van when I noticed his wife standing at the end of the drive looking up and down the road. I asked if she was alright. They needed to be somewhere fast and were waiting for their breakdown service to come and give them a jump start.

2 minutes later I had them going, and he didn't really know where to look when I said "for a scruffy old van, it has it's uses eh?".

random1980s

my temptation with this one is to leave things parked exactly where they are for now. we are breaking no laws etc.

with regards to the bins, if the view they obscured was the hanging garden of Babylon, id understand. but it isn't. if the view was herds of wildebeest migrating across the Serengeti, id understand. but it isn't. if the view it obscured was the Swedish womens beach volleyball training camp id understand, but sadly it isn't. the view is my gas and electricity meter cupboards, which in all their white glory brighten and adorn the otherwise boring brickwork, and are clearly significantly better than the wheelie bins, which in their green, blue and brown are clearly an unacceptable clash. torn between complying for an easy life, or fighting it. my big worry is what next? the colour of my curtains? the smell of our cooking?

Jonboy_1984

I would be tempted to find something along these lines http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Transit-Van-ideal-for-export-/131046343848?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item1e82f884a8 to park in its place....

random1980s

ive always dreamed of owning something so nice

clark24

or this

http://www.festive-lights.com/christmas-decorations/6ft-inflatable-christmas-tree-and-santa-figure.html?utm_source=gbase&utm_medium=se&utm_campaign=gb&gclid=CN7Wo4D-5LoCFZCWtAodmHwAqQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

random1980s

on a serious note, does anyone think the landlord/neighbour is being fair/reasonable?

Fish_n_Chips

random1980s wrote: »

on a serious note, does anyone think the landlord/neighbour is being fair/reasonable?

unreasonable I M H O.

clark24

random1980s wrote: »

on a serious note, does anyone think the landlord/neighbour is being fair/reasonable?

If the bins were blocking access for other people, on public land, on their sides with rubbish spewing out, or blocking an otherwise beautiful view then I would say yes.

Putting then at the side of the house next to meter boxes, nope.

But this is most likely the start of many other demands ...

random1980s

that's my worry, what next?