Ok, I have been in the garden. Its a yard with some flowerbeds on a steep slope, but I love it. This is a photo of it yesterday. By June, July I hope it will be mental with flowers, slugs permitting.
This is my neighbours yard.
It smells like it looks.
Imagine my surprise this week when my neighbours do this
They are cementing over their terrace behind that "fence". I think it will probably smash in the first strong southeasterly, but there you go. In the meantime, its more privacy for us and somewhere to grow my sweet peas. Why they would want to cut the sun off their patch beats me. I think my close-planting style may be offensive to them.
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16 comments:
Lilith.
Call in an air strike - make sure you speak to someone without an American accent!
Rescue The Toad 1
(tanto, they don't want it).
Ratty... That would sort it! Ha ha ha ha!
Unfortunately HG I do not have long enough tongs...And as they have a spaniel who uses the yard as latrine....I fear it is too late and Toad is embalmed.
Oh my god Lilith - poor you. I thought our neighbours were bad. I'll try and post some piccies of their shit when they're not looking. I'm talking dog turds the size of rats (er - no offence meant their Ratty.)
Yes EK. The view of their yard had 4 or 5 "logs" on the paving slabs, the day before this was taken. My camera was out of battery so I missed them. ;-0
My boy asked them to clear them up. The 21 yr old (think Steptoe and Son, but without the charm or hygeine standards) said "Fuck of You Knob End"
This town is a strange mellange of Hippies and Rednecks.
I'm talking dog turds the size of rats
Steady on there Mr. EK.
When I lived in England, my neighbour but one, owned a dog + 4 puppies who thought it was great to break through the middle garden and shit all over my lawn. I complained to him twice but he did nothing to secure his fence. For two weeks I went into my garden, got as much dog shit as I could onto a spade and hurled it like a Roman Ballista straight at the side of his house, which after a short period was suitably pebble dashed. End of problem.
I'm not drawing any comparisons believe me, but my garden looks pretty crap I have to say and my neighbours, who have retired, hate it so, rather than be helpful or freindly they just dump even more crap on my garden, making it even worse.
I had a very difficult year last year and my neighbours haven't helped at all, in fact I once had to call the police. So I realised lately that I avoid going into my garden and so don't bother with it.
In fact I think if I don't get away from this awful situation I'm staring down the barrel of full blown depression - when I'm away from here I'm fine.
I suppose I'm saying that it's difficult to bother with something you have no interest in. Do you know what's happening next door? Are they going through a divorce? It could be that they're just awful people but it could be that some problems are more important than the garden. I hope the fence doesn't block light to your property as I think you can do something about that, but at least your garden is lovely and something you can enjoy :-)
Believe me, anon, the house is much worse than the garden. If they open the back door I can smell it in my front room. Mrs left 17 years ago. Not happy unless they are moaning.
"Dont understand why you moved to this shit-hole" they said of my dear little sunny house in a dear little cul de sac with no traffic and only birds and dogs and the occasional happy child in the background....
"People let us down" was another warning sign.
Anon, plant some flowers. The process is great for depression and the result, uplifting.
Maybe they are nudists and Mr anons sad post is entirely bollox -perhaps they are going to have orgies in their garden. Maybe it is Tracey Emin - who knows...???
Anon - I find getting pissed and going out into the garden with a machette is great stress relief. After swinging one of those round at all the wayward vegetation for an hour or so you're too knackered to be depressed, the neighbours will respect you a lot more aftarwards too.
I can't believe the beautiful neighbourhood I left before I moved in next door to these scuzzies.
Oh Lillith I do garden as well . Sorry I didn`t see this earlier . I `m very busy all wek this week and its tricky getting the time .
Similiarly I have a "Cosy" area which I have made into a nice little space.
PRIDE
I'm sure it will soon be transformed into a very sensory Garden of Eden - enjoy!
Steady on Ellee, it's bad enough when Boyfriend calls me his "Eve"...
Dear Ms lilith
What I couldn't understand is why your neighbours garden seemed to be devoid of dog turds.
Those kind of people usually have a hound with an arsehole like the mersey tunnel.
The Hitch garden is awash with Jasmine at the moment , one of my fav plants (honeysuckle is the best)
I would sleep outside to enjoy the scent if only I wasnt frightened of being kidnapped by some shady illegal (or legal)immigrant.
Did they erect the fencebefore or after you started hanging around photographing their property?!
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