Trainline parallel to garden. Privacy?

Davesnave

Reminds me of my distant neighbour, who swears at me now because I laid a neglected field hedge, 'exposing' him and his back garden. From my garden he's 200m away, so I can sometimes just see the top of his head, bobbing along.

Anyway, he then felt the urge to improve privacy at the front, where buses passed. Being a country lane, they often stopped when they met other vehicles there, giving everyone a nice long view inside. :eek:

So, huge wooden gates were erected, which promptly broke the columns on which they were hung.

New, reinforced columns followed and, at last, full frontal privacy was achieved.....until the contract for the bus service changed and the new company put on double deckers. :rotfl:

csgohan4

Davesnave wrote: »

Reminds me of my distant neighbour, who swears at me now because I laid a neglected field hedge, 'exposing' him and his back garden. From my garden he's 200m away, so I can sometimes just see the top of his head, bobbing along.

Anyway, he then felt the urge to improve privacy at the front, where buses passed. Being a country lane, they often stopped when they met other vehicles there, giving everyone a nice long view inside. :eek:

So, huge wooden gates were erected, which promptly broke the columns on which they were hung.

New, reinforced columns followed and, at last, full frontal privacy was achieved.....until the contract for the bus service changed and the new company put on double deckers. :rotfl:

So did he build a prison for himself? Complete with barbed wire and high concrete walls

ellesbellesxxx

We have a railway line parallel with garden and.... We don't even notice it anymore. Unless you are in the garden. They flash past anyway so privacy not a problem.
We don't mind it at all... And it's excellent entertainment for our friends children who get excited by the train going past! Hours of free entertainment!!!!!

KayTM

I like to do gymnastics whilst naked in my back garden, and have the occasional orgy there too. I just put up a big sign, which is clearly visible to the train passengers, saying "DON'T LOOK!".

Alternatively, if you think that the passengers will notice anything you have in your garden, try selling advertising space. I'm sure that some of these big companies who advertise on the telly would be glad to put up a hoarding in your back garden exhorting people to buy their wares.

Dan-Dan

Guest101 wrote: »

I've done it before. TBH if those are the worst, it cant be all bad.

I didnt say it was

societys_child

molerat wrote: »

Unless you have the urge to sunbathe naked in the garden do you really think that trains passing at a reasonable speed are going to affect your privacy.

A few years ago, lived along side a motorway and the truckers could see down into our back garden, my missus wondered why they pipped and waved, turned out the previous owners wife would sunbath topless when the weather was right, apparently she always waved back, bless her.
She wasn't too dis-similar looking to my missus :rotfl:

Davesnave

csgohan4 wrote: »

So did he build a prison for himself? Complete with barbed wire and high concrete walls

Not quite, hence the hedge which he can just about see over.

He has a smashing view in that direction, which I'd want to see fully if I lived there, but the thought of us looking across a whole field towards him seems to rule this out.

But the roadside thing is just daft,. Why buy alongside a road if you don't expect people driving past to look in? I live beside the same road and I like seeing people going to work or the kids on the school buses.

Reminds me I don't have to!

TBeckett100

You'll find you will get used to the noise. Just like we get used to our perfumes and aftershaves

oystercatcher

What would worry me about living by a railway track is something that was discussed on Radio 2 a few months back. Many trains still have the toilets that dump the waste straight onto the track and apparently due to speed of train etc the waste can form into tiny particles/vapour and blow quite a distance from the track. They interviewed people who found their washing from the line stunk of raw sewage and there would be obvious disease risks too.

So I'd be wanting to find out if the trains had this old fashioned system or the much newer hygenic systems which I believe run in some parts of the country but by no means all.

Mickygg

oystercatcher wrote: »

What would worry me about living by a railway track is something that was discussed on Radio 2 a few months back. Many trains still have the toilets that dump the waste straight onto the track and apparently due to speed of train etc the waste can form into tiny particles/vapour and blow quite a distance from the track. They interviewed people who found their washing from the line stunk of raw sewage and there would be obvious disease risks too.

So I'd be wanting to find out if the trains had this old fashioned system or the much newer hygenic systems which I believe run in some parts of the country but by no means all.

Oh blimey, if this is true i couldn't care a less about privacy but instead this!

But in today's world I can't believe sewage is dumped onto the tracks.