LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2020

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  1. Jiffy

    Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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    Our lane isn't clean away but we have more dogs than humans per house hold, only one person picks up :) but the other 6 with dogs don't, well the other day one of the dog owners was saying that the lane is messey :biggrin: well we all have to do our bit even if it means picking up :love30: one's dog poo
    One farmer moans about dog poo not beening picked up in they're fields, but they don't pick up they're cow poo when muck spreading :scratch: or they horse poo when out riding :whistle:

    Many times I've been out on the road outside the house and cleaned up the mess I've even washed the road when washing the road side wall

    Don't do as I do but do as I say comes to mind here :coffee::stirpot:
     
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      That's terrible, if you haven't done so perhaps you could report it.We live in a semi rural housing estate it's on the outskirts of the town. On each side of the road there's grass and the dogs do it on it. The council has been trying to control owners not to, notices have been put up saying £1000.0 fine if caught doing it. It had improved a lot. One day i walked up the road with one of my dogs and there was a man in a car waiting for people to come along with a dog. He stopped me and asked if i had a poo scoop and bag. I showed him my empty bag and the scoop and he said you have to use it, i said that i always do and that I've just come out of my house not far away and that my dog only does it in certain places and i always pick it up. He said someone had reported it along here.

      Because the front garden is open plan some let them do it on the front lawn. One of the neighbours caught them doing it on their's and they didn't bat an eyelid. How can people do that? I don't even let ours cock their leg on plants because i know that other dogs will go there and kill the plants.

      Once when i was in the front garden and i was weeding, i couldn't be seen by the people walking along. A man walked by with a dog off the lead a distance behind him and the dog weed on my plants. He was so shocked when i stood up and shouted at him.He said that he thought that the dog was just behind. I gave him a good talking to him as he walked off with the dog.
       
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        Many years ago a friend of mine was working in his front garden when a dog walker allowed his dog to poop on the open front lawn (my friend hadn't been seen). My friend picked it up in a shovel and followed them home, dumped it on their front doorstep, rang the bell and said "I've brought back what you've dropped!". :heehee: My friend was a 6ft 4" rugby player.
         
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          No point really unless we had an idea who the culprit was. We literally have loads of dog walkers up our lane everyday. As they enter our lane dogs are more often than not let off their leash and allowed to run off up the lane, way ahead of their owners. Our lane is a long one with only 5 houses dotted at intervals along it, it's a no through one too with no pavements or street lights. Apart from a once a year road sweep ..... always before the leaf drop in Autumn, we are forgotten by the council. It some ways it's nice and adds to the rural feel, being well away from the hustle and bustle of the nearby town. We can't have it both ways .
          We also have a lot of horse riders who use it to gallop their horses along. I am surprised that there hasn't been a serious accident yet as startled horse meets with a free roaming startled dog around one of the many bends in the lane.
           
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            @Jiffy it's exactly the same here. Hubs often hoses down outside our place and, thankfully along with our nearest neighbours, sweeps up the leaf fall.
             
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            • Jiffy

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              I would love just leaves, we could fill a wheel borrow every three/four weeks of poo and dirt

              Some one did say once that our shrubs looked nice, I said it was all the poo I clean up from the road and tis good for filling in the uneven ground etc
               
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                Dog poo is not nice, but where I used to work we used to come across the human kind.
                Mostly foreign lorry drivers who would park overnight on the industrial estate.
                 
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                  :yikes::yikes:....Don't remind me Pete:mad:, going back a few years now but.....we had some smeared over the windscreen of our car!!!!:censored:

                  Trouble was at the time there seemed to be a small group of troublesome teens ( nothing serious just mischief making) who were killing time before setting of for college/ uni that summer. Although you can't drive through our lane you can walk and join up with the road that links to two cities......and the late 1 am bus!!! :drunk:. We often heard their drunken voices as they walked via our lane in the early hours to get home. We are almost 100% certain they were the culprits.

                  Anyway since those long ago days it's all peaceful.:bigthumb:
                   
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                    So many little things getting me down at the moment, well, for the past 12 months or so, really...

                    we’ve finally found a company happy to install a connection to the main sewer pipe in the street. Cost is €2000 more than the original estimate from the “we will charge you €300 to give you a useless quote, without telling you how to get the work done” company the council insisted we use.... oh, and that’s not connecting the electric pump to the mains, as they don’t do that?!

                    We were supposed to be connected by 31st January. I asked for an extension, due to having to go back to the UK for my mother-in-law’s funeral, and sorting the house. We have a 1 month extension, after which we will be fined. The company can’t do the work until April, so we will be fined AND be doing the work in the summer, disturbing the amphibians.

                    The workmen are now packing up, and the street is finally reopened to through traffic, after 10 months of being closed. They have not finished the link between the pavement and our drive, so we have a 5cm+ gap between the pavement and our asphalt, along with a further cut into our drive 25cm towards our house, marking the point to which they were supposed to work.
                    Surprise, surprise, the council are ignoring my “when will you finish the work?” emails....

                    I’m trying to keep busy, to take my mind off all of this, and our totally unknown legal status come 1st February 2020/1st January 2021 (due to the transition period). Perfect timing, the arthritis in my hands is flaring up, I’ve got painful bone-spur nodules on thumb joints, to the point that I can barely use scissors, as my thumbs won’t go through the handle, and lunchtime today my left hand spasmed to the point that I could barely hold a fork. (For info, the arthritis is about 15 years “premature”, caused by high levels of steroids taken to save my eyesight 12 years ago....)

                    Feeling decidedly sorry for myself!

                    Still, Dry January is nearly over, and not an hour too soon!! :ccheers:
                     
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                      @Sian in Belgium ... Bless , I don't know what to say! Write me if you really want me to say something. xx
                       
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                        It never rains but it pours Sian! Even though you still have issues with it, at least the sewer work is coming to an end. I sympathise with the arthritis as I have it in my spine and pelvis, but we need to keep going don't we? ;) I keep an eye on the air pressure. I know when that's low 'Arthur Itis' will make himself well and truly known too.

                        I hope you feel better soon. :)
                         
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                            Sorry to hear about everything and hope you feel better soon lots of hugs :grphg::grphg:
                             
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                              For you Sian xx
                               
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