my 'sensible head' is telling me... life is too short to have these hassles and if you don't need the space for yourself then live and let live
however, despite it being Father's Day and being well chilled...my 'reality head' has taken over..
so... good on you, make sure you don't back down...and keep us posted
p.s. if you own the freehold, can you up/introduce service charges or similar?
p.p.s. my motor cycle is secured to my garden shed floor with a ground anchor. If you get another old nail, you could fit a ground anchor underneath the rear axle and a suitable chain/padlock, which would severely slow down a scrappy... and the other chap couldn't pretend it is his car, because if it was he'd have the key to the padlock wouldn't he?
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Store something immovable for a while, like a tonne of bagged sand. Or get a couple of heavy planters, 1/4 fill with brick rubble, some soil and some nice shrubs.
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I'm probably wrong, as usual, but a thought has occured to me.
As the price of scrap has gone up appreciably, this may be a case of the itinerants cruising around in their transit pick up having spotted the motor, and chanced their arm.
Your hostile neighbour (i hate bullies as much or more than anyone) may actually have nothing to do with this.
What makes me think this you found scrape marks on the road, i'd have thought most scrappies would have a hiab or proper wagon to keep the scrap vehicle off the road and less chance of police interest (tyres and the like), the itinerents won't have a care in the world, and would drag it up the road on the brake drums.
That planter suggestion sounds good, and prettier.
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I be reckoning that your Volvo is now as flat as your flat m8 and that the engine, which had probably done over 200k is now sitting prettily in another 240 which will be good for another 100k ... why not fit an inertia type of alarm to your next anti-parking device - with a loud ooter.
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"That planter suggestion sounds good, and prettier."
And I though you had a statue of Karl Marx holding a can of Waxhoyle GB ;)
A high sided skip would be a good socialist solution, better than another idol of capitalism surely?
As a nod to Capitalism and 6 cylinders, fill it with blow up FIA dolls that are only visible from the flat above.
;)
Edited by oilrag on 15/06/2008 at 17:04
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And I though you had a statue of Karl Marx holding a can of Waxhoyle GB ;)
I'm thinking Oily one, give me time, as a worker i don't have the quick mind of the bourgeois multi talented highly literate scholars that can be found here, i'm that proletariate numbskull who's only purpose is to do the bidding of the party apparatchiks..:)
I am ashamed to say the only overt decoration of my allegiance in my garden was our marvellous Union flag, till the wind took it down, and to my disgrace has not been replaced, but be assured it will go back, bigger and bolder and higher than before.
Any impressions of socialism are possibly mistaken, if i had a statue it would be of Winston Churchill.
I still think you're a closet fan of the 'Bradshaws'..:)
And SWMBO spends a lot of time shaking her head these days, wondering whether the whole of the BR is crackers.:)
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 15/06/2008 at 22:10
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"I still think you're a closet fan of the 'Bradshaws'..:)
Someone`s probably spotted the metal in your flagpole Jubilee clips from the road GB... ;)
Never heard of the Bradshaws, (honestly) did they make it as far as Yorkshire?
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>>And SWMBO spends a lot of time shaking her head these days, wondering whether the whole of the BR is crackers.:)
She needs to question our sanity?
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I thought about the planter a long time ago. The problem with that is by doing that I'm showing the OSP space as reduntant and invite all and sundry to block off the access to the driveway so it may be difficult to re-surrect .
There is nothing painted across the driveway ( there is a full dropped kerb as an access 0
get this , I actually paid the council their fee 2 years ago to paint the yellow line across the driveway, when it wasn't done 2 months later I phoned the council dept to chase up, and they said that when they showed up during the day to carry out the job, ' the landlord ' ( the sad neighbour ) appeared and said the job was no longer necessary ....
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"Any impressions of socialism are possibly mistaken"
I was teasing GB ;) But not about the Waxhoyle;)
Edited by oilrag on 15/06/2008 at 21:16
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To protect the parking space for future use of your tennants then fit a security post and then get another scrappie? If you find it was him who got it scrapped then scrap his car too pretending it's him ;-)
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I don't think SWMBO has quite got her pretty head around the idea that you have to be 3 parts potty to get entry to the BR, and will very soon complete the process once here.:)
Oilrag
I know you're a tease :) Mind you i think i may have gone a bit over the top this weekend, probably get a stern warning soon, will try not to get so emotional over my working class sympathies and roots (in your professional opinion do i need help, what am i saying you're as daft as the worst of us)..:):)
Look up 'the bradshaws' on google, will come up as Buzz Hawkins and the bradshaws.
A radio series which i first heard some years ago on Century radio, Nottingham.
I believe they've diversified (there i'm back in nulab lala land again, keep taking the tabs) into a tour now.
They started as a recorded series for radio and can be bought off their website, simple stories set around Manchester working class (i'm in) family in the 50's with sexist father, barmy mother and their son Billy. (Billy would pronounce it WaxHoyle, thats what made me think).
Very gentle humour, and great fun to listen to as a cd (there are a lot and you do become hooked) in the car on journeys.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of them, i believe you would enjoy the humour.
Kind regards GB
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"you're as daft as the worst of us)..:):)2
Dafter GB ;);) Thanks for the info.
Hope the roads are clear for you.
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(Billy would pronounce it WaxHoyle thats what made me think).
A late friend of mine who used to do market research was conducting a group discussion on some sort of furniture cleaning product when a lady reduced the group to baffled, and in some cases horrified and alarmed, silence by uttering the word: 'Orsehoil'.
Turned out she meant some sort of hoil that was used on 'orses, possibly to polish their hooves.
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The fun thing to do would be to concrete in a metal hoop in the centre of the parking space. Buy another 240, and get a welder to put an eye on the under side to line up with the first. Secure the car using a motorbike security hoop, and retire.
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