Abandoned Car on Overgrown Front Garden

spadoosh

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

:rotfl:

Someone in our (considered to be rather posh ) lane has an old toilet and phone box in the overgrown front garden of their eight bedroom house :rotfl:

Theres a few on our estate who have really taken garden room to the next level, with 3pc sofas and mattresses to boot.

Genuinely there is a guy near me who will only use old ceramics as his planters, its a terrace and his front garden is full of toilets and sinks. Looks fantastic and spends some serious time looking after it all. Bet he's regretting it now though, all those colourful bathroom suites would be worth a fortune on a boutique market.

spadoosh

zebulon wrote: »

Damaging someone's fence in the process. Nice.

Actually, i would say, the fence is damaging someone elses plants.

dc197

Fish&Chips wrote: »

Rob has abandoned this garden too and brambles are now about 5ft high and pushing my mother's fence out. She said she paid a lot of money for the fence and new posts to be installed about 3 years ago.

Brambles as in blackberry brambles? Are they really so strong as to push a new fence out? What is the fence made of if not tissue paper?
I have cultivated brambles up my fence at my allotment, for the berries, and have not found even 10" tall ones to be that strong.

eddddy

Fish&Chips wrote: »

Rob has now acquired a dog (but has never been seen to take it out for a walk) and it just poops in the lower part of the back garden....apparently the smell is very strong as Rob never cleans it up.

You can try reporting that to Environmental Health...

Sheffield dog owner fined for failure to clean up garden

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-dog-owner-fined-for-failure-to-clean-up-garden-1-5831374

booksurr

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

So - in reverse why does the slob neighbour feel the right to impose HIS standards on OP's mother? Because thats what he is doing...

he is not imposing anything on anyone else since his entire activity is confined to his own land

your mother is the one who seeks to impose her ideas on another person.

of course it would be preferable for everyone to live in perfect suburbia with their manicured lawns and perfect pets who only "do" on command. Reality check, live in the real world and respect real people, I assume the "natives" in the country in which you currently reside may have similar feelings about your presence there as there are bound to be cultural differences, intentional or not?

foxy-stoat

That was a very nice story.

In answer to your question at the end, not a lot they can do....what do they think the neighbour has done that has broken the law?

glasgowdan

I suspect the story of brambles damaging a fence is exaggerated. Brambles may be vigorous, but they are not tough and woody and won't easily push out a fence! Besides, seriously would he care if the woman leaned over with hedge trimmers and just trimmed them?

I agree, the 'upset' elderly busybodies should leave the guy alone and don't dare be so rude as to suggest he treats his own property a certain way. If it were me and some jobless government-supported person with too much time on their hands suggested I cut my grass I'd be taking a wander down the tip to get an old sofa and plonking it in my garden right beside the pavement.

moneyistooshorttomention

dc197 wrote: »

Brambles as in blackberry brambles? Are they really so strong as to push a new fence out? What is the fence made of if not tissue paper?
I have cultivated brambles up my fence at my allotment, for the berries, and have not found even 10" tall ones to be that strong.

I've seen brambles pushing their way through gaps in wood fences and heading down underground and popping up in next door land. So they do have an effect on neighbouring properties.

So to those on this thread that, presumably, have unkempt gardens themselves (as I cant quite see why they would defend the neighbour otherwise?????) - I would say that the worst a neatly-kept garden can do to a neighbour is have them feeling rather bored by a bog-standard set of lawn/shrubs. But an unkempt garden on the other hand does make it look like "goodness knows who" lives in the area and does affect the desirability (or otherwise) of the place if it comes to selling.

I've got a slob neighbour - so I can sympathise with OP.

foxy-stoat

You could try and be a good neighbour and offer to help him with the trimming of the grass and hedge etc.

glasgowdan

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've seen brambles pushing their way through gaps in wood fences and heading down underground and popping up in next door land. So they do have an effect on neighbouring properties.

That's different though - if they find a crack and grow through, it's the easiest thing in the world to trim them on the other side to stop them doing so!