A boater had a problem earlier in the week, they needed to fill up with water but someone was already on the water point, so they moored against the bank nearby.
After a while the boaters mobile phone rang, it was the C&RT, they had received a complaint from an irate lady saying the boat was moored on private land and must be moved immediately.
The boater explained where they were moored and why and C&RT agreed they were not on private land and could moor there for 14 days.
This information was obviously forwarded on the the complainant who I shortly afterwards marched up to the boat and demanded it be moved. It seems the lady had bought her house over the winter period because liked to look at the canal. She had not been warned by her estate agent that there were boats using the canal and that they would be mooring within sight of her garden.
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I am so pleased that you are posting more frequently. I do enjoy your posts. I agree that Vera is a marvelous TV show. There are so many great TV shows, films and blogs available to us online now. I love modern technology and delight in living in a time when my childish dreams have become reality. Anyway, I hope your health and any other issues resolve themselves happily and quickly.
Thank you. I will try to post regularly but sometimes life gets in the way.
Oh what fun! Did she get her comeuppance. NIMBY! Its like if we complained about muck spreading when we live in the country! (We dont.)
Hmmm - we had a person move down from London to a quaint village, then put in a noise complaint that the 17th century Church Bells were waking her on a Sunday morning - she lived in church mews - What the heck did she expect, the sad thing about it was the local council banned the bells till the complaint had been investigated - mad...
As bad as the person who believes the piece of road outside their house should not be parked on by anyone else.
We had complaints about the church bells in our village too. Also in another place a new resident moaned about the cockerel crowing in the morning.
I live in a beautiful coastal area that has many visitors who rent oceanfront homes in the summer. Every year the rental agencies field at least one angry call from someone who wakes up their first morning to find all the water has disappeared during the night.
Just another side of the story. We bought some empty land behind our house. There are several houses that back up to the property. We aren't planning on building on it, but the neighbors told us the real estate agent told them that the land is "forever wild" and can't be built on. We had to break the news to them that there are already 7 approved building lots on the property (it was previously owned by a home builder). It seems real estate agents aren't above telling a customer whatever they need to make a sale.
I have no sympathy for people like that..it's like moving next to a farm and them complaining about the animals and manure!
It seems the world is full of NIGHT's.
Sue, I know what you mean about real estate agents, I was very careful about who I used to sell my house and insisted on accurate details.
The people who bought my parent's old house complained about the noise of children playing almost every weekday, mid morning, at lunchtime and again mid afternoon. The house overlooked the playing fields of a primary/junior school FFS!
The next door neighbour at our last house put chunks of rock all along the edge of the grass verge outside his house as he didn't like anyone running their wheels up on to the grass so as to not block the road. But then.....his family came to visit and he told them to park all over the other verges in the road, not just run a little bit up on to the grass, rather pull comletely on to it, lined up, car park style!
There were a few angry words spoken to him that day, not by me of course, as I'd had a 'run in' with him a few months before about him picking up cat poo from his garden and throwing it over the fence into ours, where our young grandson toddled about, we don't even have a cat! After our little cat poo discussion he's terrified of me, with good reason, and avoids me like the plague!
Completely, sorry, typing without specs again!
It happens everywhere. We have an area in the city known as "The Entertainment District" - even says so on the road signs! Nightclubs, theatres, tons of restaurants etc. - then they built a bunch of condos - people moved in to be close to everything - and then started complaining about the noise from all those people who go to those clubs and theatres and restaurants! Seriously!
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