MOB rants

Having enjoyed the thread on whinges,. I thought it might be good to have a place whe we could let the MOB (miserable old... er...darling) in us rip! No rudeness or personal insults - just genuine rants, preferably with a sense of humour. Gardening or forum related only!

String and scissors never in the same area-or within reach-string not long enough when you cut a bit off-string that finds that one little snag on a cane-bits of string that appear from nowhere-running out of string-string that sometimes comes from the middle -then sometimes starts from the outside

String theory

Honeysuckle roots  Given up now. It's staying put.

Thanks to both of you for contributing. Can we manage more of a rant? After all, we want to get it off our chests and whinge for all we are worth!

I wish the person up the road would cut his hedge so as I don't have to get poked in the eye every time I walk past and it looks a sight ...........and.......

I wish her next door would try an make an effort !! EVEN if she was to get someone to do it for her ................................ BUT NO !! just bone idle, then slab IT !!

I wish I could find out which kindly neighbour contacted the council about the fir trees overhanging the pavement. They wrote to me saying that their 'inspector' had noted that my conifers were overhanging the pavement and ordering me to cut them back forthwith. The aforementioned trees were less than three feet high! They may have tickled the legs of anyone determined to walk at the very edge of my boundary, I suppose. Perhaps tickling legs could be classified as sexual harassment? 

Think the council make their own rules up as they go along.

Grandma we have a close neighbor whose leandali stuff  leans out half way across the kerb at head height, talk about in ya face on dark nights  and its 12 feet high never gets trimmed and is a pain in the AAA Some people seem to go through life in a dream world completely oblivious to others  SO  can you send me that inspector please we need him There i feel better well a bit anyway

 Cheers Alan4711

the most noseiest neighbor ever put on this earth and she has to live next door to me,she knows more than i do what goes on in my house and if she cant see who is knocking on my door she will come out with hands on hips to the gate. i see her when im in the garden just looking out of the window at me,her gardens a tip and she really grates on my nerves,cant help it i have been trying to be nice to her BUTS ITS NOT WORKING there feel better now.

Didn't take long for councils and leylandii to appear did it

YOU can be the council inspector, Alan . Just give 'em a ring and complain. It is one thing they will take action on, if my experience is anything to go  by...

Glad you feel better, Chica. We have nosy neighbours on both sides. One asked us to move our car lower down the drive because she could not see properly! When we came home from holiday, she told us who had called a the house and what they wanted. She'd been out to ask them. The neighbour on the other side has a ledge that he steps up onto every evening to have a look over the wall at what we've been up to. We put a trellis there to break his view. but he got so upset that we took it down again. After all, he needs his entertainment, doesn't he? I always know he's there because the dogs run to the wall and bark. One evening, I'll put a cup of tea up there ready for him!

 Back of next doors' garden.  Rest not a lot better. 

Have 5 dogs between 8 houses, (not me).  First one starts it's morning yap at 6.45 and the others soon follow.  Residents of house backing in to us seems to know my/our every move. Once asked what we were doing in back bedroom! Put up heavy net curtains.

People! They are all odd - except me, of course. And you, naturally!

Is is just the MOB brigard that moan? I'm not old but have my say about a lot of things

AT LONG LAST I can get a word in ,Why is it that some not all, infrequent users ask how do you do this or that   The BBC bless their hearts ,  have provided at the top of the page HOW to  lot of info  can;t go wrong ,

Derek woof woof

"There's a woman in my road who lets her front garden do what it likes. The hedge at the front is dying off, ivy is growing over the top of it, last year she only cut the grass once - it's a disgrace!!!!"   

I'm sure that's what some of my neighbours would say if asked about my garden  

It might be that they prefer to get advice off real people rather than one size fits all in the "how to" section. Any gardening advice is dependant on where you live as there are big differences in climate in this country.

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