just acquired a 7th one: (likely to double up as a rant)
7 NO NEIGHBOURS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My neighbours are lovely as a rule and not sure this isn't partly me descending into total social isolationism and bad tempered old sod mode- but nonetheless
Took this week off work to try to tackle the fairly major ongoing restoration of our garden involving much wall building and slab laying. Brother in law and family descends for the first 3 days without warning- spends 3 days giving me much needed instruction despite the fact that the last time he indulged in anything approaching physical work the old king was probably still on the throne. despite his considerable verbal expertise seemed congenitally incapable of keeping his pesky kids off my new laid slabs so gave it up as a bad job till he'd gone.
At last yesterday morning a free run at it- oh no- neighbours drains have collapsed under our lane- spent all of the morning bailing buckets and buckets of guess what, dismantled our fence and rebuilt it so he could get digger in and eventually got to patio building at about lunchtime. spent all afternoon in baking sun mixing cement and hauling concrete slabs- kept my dogs tied up out the way to avoid any accidents. just finished when another neighbour ( who shares the drain in question but despite having the day off work took his kids to the beach while I spent hours covered in his families' sh*t) appears with his hoofing great hound- all over the slabs just laid (dog and neighbour, despite their being plastic sheeting all over it and barricades all round it). By this morning several slabs have been knocked askew and have got to take them up and do it again.
Not finished yet. needed to move a couple of sheep with lambs down to a fresh bit of ground at the end of our lane- normally our sheep are easy to move around but this morning with the lambs being a bit all over the place they were playing silly buggers. eventually got them going the right way while my other neighbour watched me get hot and sweaty- and then, just as they got near him, within 10 feet., he starts up his bloody drill- cue swift about turn and all galloped headlong back past me and up the lane to where they'd just come from and back into the field. oh I can swear !!!!!- bucket still where I threw it and sheep not where I wanted them- BLOODY PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 that's slightly better !
