Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Jazee

Yes, the downstairs toilet came in very handy when I damaged my ankle in the new year. DH brought all my washing stuff downstairs so I could clean my teeth etc in there too. I just had to get upstairs and back down just once a day.

And the new bath does have the handles on the sides. I'm also not putting things I need all the time in the lower shelves of cupboards as it's hard work bending down.

Flippin ek, I'm only in my 50's and supposed to be running a 10k later this year!

silvercar

"gate in use" could work.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

"gate in use" could work.

Also "gate opens outwards"...but then they'd still park and just leave that bit available. I need the rest of the allowable space for manoevring too ... and "because it's mine - and just because somebody thinks I am not using it doesn't mean they can rob it".

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also "gate opens outwards"...but then they'd still park and just leave that bit available. I need the rest of the allowable space for manoevring too ... and "because it's mine - and just because somebody thinks I am not using it doesn't mean they can rob it".

Maybe you should paint it pink, so they know it's yours?

Pyxis

Given that most of your neighbours feel the same way, it might be pertinent to club together to get an road line-writer to paint some white lines delineating your parking space/freehold property boundaries, plus marking the house number that each belongs to. You could put signs on the fence too.

That way, nobody would be under any illusion that it's communal space.

I know that would incur expense, but divided between the houses concerned, it might not be too bad, and would solve the problem, or at least clarify the position, and give you all armoury.

The rental occupiers obviously need visual reminders of what's private.


Another option is to have a meeting of all the residents, but I know you wouldn't want to organise that. I wonder if one of the others would? To invite the rentals, too, and go through it all calmly. They can't then say they didn't know, or didn't understand, etc. etc., and you would all have shown willing.

Also, people you know, even if only a little, are often less 'scary' than 'unknown' people.


The last resort is to find out who the landlords are, and put the matter to them. Easier said than done, and should be last resort only.

When I let my flat, I put letters through the doors of the adjacent flats, and the ones above and below, giving my contact details, explaining who the tenants were, and saying that any problems, would they contact me.
In my view, it should be mandatory to do that!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... it should be mandatory ....

I think it should be mandatory for a LL to provide the tenants with a copy of the deeds - the bit about boundaries, accesses, rights, etc... because they just make it up.

I rented one of a block of eight flatlets once.... it was surrounded by open plan grass. The ground floor flatlets owned the four corners; upstairs had no outside space at all. I was by the kitchen window once and saw a new upstairs neighbour hanging out their washing on the rotary washing line they'd also installed, slap bang in the middle of "my garden". I didn't say anything as I was leaving soon, but, apart from the fact it was "my garden" there was something in the deeds/covenants about not hanging washing outside at all, which is why I'd never done it. I knew what was in/not because I read all the rental paperwork and had investigated the whole block online and I spoke to the landlord about such things to check.

PasturesNew

I took my bike out for a little potter around - I'd spotted a "new route" on Google maps, a track/pathway, so I wanted to see if I could find it on the ground. I did find it - and it's a path/cycle-path, so I can use it.

By the time I got where I was going it was a bit cool and blowy - and there's nothing there .... if you're standing staring and you're not with anybody to natter to and you're not going into a cafe to have something to eat/drink you've already run out of things to do .... so I came home

It was only about 2.5-3 miles return journey. Should've packed some sandwiches... but that's not much fun, perched on a windy sea wall scoffing sandwiches, more comfy to come home and eat them with a hot coffee

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I took my bike out for a little potter around - I'd spotted a "new route" on Google maps, a track/pathway, so I wanted to see if I could find it on the ground. I did find it - and it's a path/cycle-path, so I can use it.

By the time I got where I was going it was a bit cool and blowy - and there's nothing there .... if you're standing staring and you're not with anybody to natter to and you're not going into a cafe to have something to eat/drink you've already run out of things to do .... so I came home

It was only about 2.5-3 miles return journey. Should've packed some sandwiches... but that's not much fun, perched on a windy sea wall scoffing sandwiches, more comfy to come home and eat them with a hot coffee

A picnic, with jam sandwiches.

ivyleaf

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Downstairs toilet - without that I couldn't actually be downstairs or in gardens! Though am toying with getting a camping toilet for back garden shed so I can travel as far as the end of the garden.

Bath with handles so you can haul yourself up. Unless you prefer to shower of course.

Our neighbours are 91 and 82 now and their toilet is upstairs, but they have a stairlift Mind you, it does go wrong on occasion. When that happens, they usually ring and ask OH if he'd mind having a look at it. He feels he could almost get a job as a stairlift engineer these days

Bath with handles - even with handles I wouldn't be able to get down into the bath, let alone back up again. We have a shower mixer tap atm so DS and I use that. I can't understand how OH manages to get down into the bath when I can't!

We do have a rail beside the bath, and one by the toilet.

Pyxis

I haven't had a bath for yonks.


Just as well I prefer a shower!

For some time now, I haven't been able to push down on my hands, because of my iffy wrists, so trying to get out of a bath is fraught. I could pull on handles, but my bath doesn't have any.

The last time I tried having a bath, (I just felt like a relax in hot water, very unusual for me!), I had to let the water out, and then turn onto all fours and get up that way. That was still fraught!

I get bored in a bath. Plus I don't like getting wet, and my fingertips go funny.
If you're very, very cold, or extremely hot, they are useful for warming up or cooling down quickly, though, but I just don't dare try any more.
Just as well I'm not too bothered!

When hot tubs were all the rage, I did fleetingly think it would be nice to use one after a hard days' work, but luckily I realised that monitoring the temp. and the bacteria levels and all the other stuff would become a right pain, especially when the novelty had worn off, which it would do, as I get bored with things quickly, and then it would just be a big, expensive lump of a thing getting in the way on my patio, so I scotched that idea.

I do have an old tin bath outside, waiting for a 'project'.
I could always fill that with warm water! Hahahahahaha!