Latest moan from you and me - 2016

Oooooooookaaaaay so I spelt it wrongly It *is* Bank Holiday Monday

 

About what?

 

Well! I'm absolutely flipping furious! I had a oil delivery this morning, I ordered it from Goff but it was delivered by CPS, the Goff drivers are always really considerate & very careful, the cps driver has pulled the pipe through my front flowerbed smashing up my iris, )which my nan gave me out of her garden before she died) & snapped my hollyhock! Unfortuatley the driver had gone before I noticed it or I'd have torn him a new 'A' hole, I've rung Goff & told them exactly what I think & im now waiting for the health & safety officer to ring me back...god knows what he's going to do about it! I know the iris is a tuber & will be ok but it's the lack of respect to my garden which has made me so flipping cross rant over!

 

Crikey! I know Government cutbacks have hit services hard, but its a sad day when the Crown Prosecution Service has to resort to delivery services to pick up the slack

Totally empathise

Hope you get a call back soon!

 

If it's of any use to you @Beckie76, some years ago we were getting oil delivered at a previous house. As you'll know the engine of the lorry is kept running when pumping the oil into the tank. The exhaust of the lorry badly burnt a Juniper which was close to our driveway. I was livid as the Juniper was pretty well wrecked. I contacted the oil delivery company who were pretty casual about the whole thing. I mentioned lack of care and that I was going to seek compensation which had them sit up and take notice. They asked me to get quotes to replace the Juniper. As it was at least 15 years old to replace with another of the same size was going to be nigh on impossible so I argued I would need to get 2 which they agreed to. They sat up even higher when I sent them the quotes! reluctantly they agreed and I was sent a cheque for £150.
Unfortunately many folk just see plants as big weeds which are worthless. When we were having work done to the outside of our house a couple of years ago, before the workmen even started I drew the analogy of them perhaps liking their cars and I was sure they wouldn't like me denting/scraping them, and likewise my plants were my equivalent. I also muttered that my beautiful Acer (quite close to the house) which I have had for nearly 30 years would cost an arm and a leg to replace even at 1/2 it's size. I told them we would be talking 100's even perhaps getting towards £1000 to replace it. That definitely concentrated their minds and before they started work on the house they had rigged up a tent type thing over the tree and not 1 leaf was damaged

 

I'm delighted to tell you that I've just had a call from an extremely nice gentleman who has put a credit on my account to replace the iris, he was very apologetic & said he would speak to the driver concerned.
Thank you for your messages @shiney @silu & @"M".

 

What is wrong with him? So he (husband) asks me for some parts of a hydrangea. Ok I says, I take him to an Annabelle which is huge, and show him how under you can get a baby etc and transplant it. So he does, when I am not around. I go back and the plant looks like it gouged out. So he left it that way instead of reorganizing the branches etc to make it look decent.
Number 2. He asked me if I have an extra hosta for him to put in his garden. I show him a nice blue, says he can have it. So he digs it out when I am no around, and leaves the deep hole there, instead of filling it in with the soil around it to make it look nice. WTH. well at least he asked me first. Not like a few years ago where he moved my prize Canada Lilly (has not clue). And I laid into him for doing that, and then it did not bloom that year because of him. Nuts.

 

Fill his suit jacket pockets full of compost, when he finds it, tell him its so he's got something to fill the hole with next time he digs one

 

it just gets tiring, I said to myself. Self, you know he did not back fill that hole in, bet myself $10.00, and sure enough, I won . Thanks for listening folks.

 

Don't forget to put a pumpkin seed in each pocket too

 

It's a man thing @redstar

 

Good point Kandy

If the pocket garden doesn't work, superglue the toilet seat down