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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    What is "regularly"?

    How often do people move their fences???
    Quite often, I think it’s called creepage in border speak. Out of five of my house moves four suffered from previous creepage or attempted creepage. Three relatives of my in-laws actually practiced creepage onto public land. One a QC for the CPS pinched a chunk of forest land, another took over a public foot path and the other several pieces of land.

    Creepage also happens on water front properties where there is a public path or some land between the building and river. I have also seen the same in Holland. The river authorities now use digital cameras to compare annual pictures of the waterfronts for creepage

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  • Incognito
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Shut it new boy.
    Shut it gimp.

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  • jimjamuk
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    wait for the next windy day and push over 2 panels - then knock and note things must have got better since the last conversation given new windows were in and remind them its their turn as your job has been offshored.........

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  • scooterscot
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    I'm going to need a new black book at this rate...

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    When comes to revenge and retribution I prefer pen and paper.

    There's something statisfying about scoring a line through someones name...
    I'm going to write an app for that....

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Isn't there an app for that?

    When comes to revenge and retribution I prefer pen and paper.

    There's something statisfying about scoring a line through someones name...

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Incognito View Post
    I would put money on you being a spambot that just exists to spout complete crap on forums.
    Shut it new boy.

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  • Pondlife
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Isn't there an app for that?

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    I have a black book for people like those...

    Mostly the book is filled with the names of agents these days.
    Isn't there an app for that?

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  • scooterscot
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    I have a black book for people like those...

    Mostly the book is filled with the names of agents these days.

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  • Incognito
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    Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
    * * * * *
    bollox, bollox, bollox
    I would put money on you being a spambot that just exists to spout complete crap on forums.

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  • Jeebo72
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    and the missus is livid.

    Last year the fence between us and the neighbours started to crumble so we agreed to go halves on a new one.
    I got a quote for £500, but the neighbour said it was too much, she would get a better one. A few weeks later I asked how it was going, she said her son had lost his job, hubby was on half time, they were struggling, would I get it done on my own. So I did.

    Yesterday I gets home from work and the builders are next door putting new frames and windows in

    the missus is now on a war footing and she has put me on defcon III


    And she's right too. Your neighbours are scum.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    It is highly unlikely that the boundary fence or jointly owned. If it is your neighbour's fence or if it is jointly owned; you can serve them with an enforcement notice. (that will make them happy). Beware, as per my previous home; the neighbour was deliberately damaging the boundary fence with the view to erecting another one while I was away on holiday. The new fence would have taken away part of my garden. Take photographs and measurements regularly. The same goes for when a neighbour builds an extension. They will try to encroach on your land.
    What is "regularly"?

    How often do people move their fences???

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    and the missus is livid.

    Last year the fence between us and the neighbours started to crumble so we agreed to go halves on a new one.
    I got a quote for £500, but the neighbour said it was too much, she would get a better one. A few weeks later I asked how it was going, she said her son had lost his job, hubby was on half time, they were struggling, would I get it done on my own. So I did.

    Yesterday I gets home from work and the builders are next door putting new frames and windows in

    the missus is now on a war footing and she has put me on defcon III


    It is highly unlikely that the boundary fence or jointly owned. If it is your neighbour's fence or if it is jointly owned; you can serve them with an enforcement notice. (that will make them happy). Beware, as per my previous home; the neighbour was deliberately damaging the boundary fence with the view to erecting another one while I was away on holiday. The new fence would have taken away part of my garden. Take photographs and measurements regularly. The same goes for when a neighbour builds an extension. They will try to encroach on your land.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    * * * * *

    You who speak to me across the fence
    - Of common sense
    How your tomato plant will win a prize,
    won't that be nice

    And by the way, how's your wife?

    Your holidays were spent in Spain
    You went by train
    You'll go again

    Have you seen me bullfight poster on the wall?
    Do you know the ‘appy memory it recalls?



    Here's a photograph of me and my son, Ted
    That's me cousin with his hanky on his head!

    We booked in at our ‘otel just after two
    And met a family from Bradford that we knew

    My pink half of the drainpipe
    Separates next door from me

    My pink half of the drainpipe
    Oh, Mama!
    Belongs to me


    I have a sister in Toronto who's a nurse
    And I've had a bit of bother laying turf

    It's life, not books, that taught me all I've learned
    Woop, in the b'oven my rice pudding's getting burned!

    ‘Ere, have you seen the new attachment on me drill?
    I must have the cat put down, ‘cause he's ill



    My pink half of the drainpipe
    I may paint it blue

    My pink half of the drainpipe
    Keeps me safe from
    you!

    My pink half of the drainpipe
    Separates me from the incredibly fascinating story of your life and
    every day to day event in all it's minute and tedious attention to
    detail... And was it a Thursday or a Wednesday? Or, oh, no, it wasn't though...
    ... who cares anyway because I do not so Norman, if you're normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages
    and rhinoceroses in the kitchen incessant quotations from

    "Now We Are
    Six" through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric
    head.

    So
    theeeeeere.........
    Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 23 February 2010, 15:17.

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