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| Topic Started: Aug 19 2009, 03:03 AM (144 Views) | |
| PC Pom | Aug 19 2009, 03:03 AM Post #1 |
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Your neighbour is an Australian, born and bred. You and your neighbour live on acrerage - about two acres each. Neither block is fenced. You don't need a fence! Then, one sunny day, your neighbour decides he's going to put up a dividing fence. Nothing solid. Just a line of strong posts with strands of wire linking each one. He's paying for it so you don't mind. Then you return from work and notice the fence. He's moved the border line. Not just a couple of feet, but a 'significant distance' from what was the legal boundary between the two properties. Do you: a) speak nicely to him and explain the error of his ways b) tell him in no uncertain terms to move the &^%$# fence c)  sit and stare at it for days on end knowing damn well if you raise the slightest eye-brow you'll be informed you're a whinging pom and told "if you don't like it you can bugger off back where you belong!" - sadly a popular tone of phrase used by cretans the world overd) secretly set fire to the posts - he'll never guess who that was... e) call in the A-Team...   I ask this question because I recently heard the story and the response given to the migrant neighbour was typically, well, Australian? In fact, the first thing I said was: "Australian neighbours by any chance?" Well, what would you do? P. |
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| Cal | Aug 20 2009, 08:22 AM Post #2 |
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lol, ok well i think first i would do Option c,,then probably send hubby round to carry out option A. If no response then i would resort to Option B and D,lol Cal x |
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| PC Pom | Aug 26 2009, 02:31 AM Post #3 |
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Well, don't all rush in at once...  May be you'd spotted I didn't say which way the neighbour had moved the border line. Ah ha! Could be he's paying for it so kept it well inside his border. Of course, the fact is that he didn't and it's well 'over' the border. When asked about it his response was something like: "Well you've got enough (land) already so stop yer bloody whinging!" Welcome to Or-stralia! PS Not my neighbour. I have nice neighbours. Nice Australian neighbours. 
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| Tyke | Aug 27 2009, 03:09 AM Post #4 |
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I'd be deffo going A- be nice to them and bring it up in conversation? Do you bump into them regularly?? Best be careful as small grievances can turn into WW3 very quickly - I'm speaking from experience! "Have plenty of land" indeed?????
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| PC Pom | Aug 28 2009, 02:55 AM Post #5 |
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G'day Tyke! You back in the land of Oz? Nope, I don't bump into them - just heard the story through a close acquantance. Be fun to call in the A-Team though...
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| Tyke | Aug 28 2009, 05:34 AM Post #6 |
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I am - and going nuts with jet lag.Never had it this bad before  
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| PC Pom | Aug 31 2009, 05:16 AM Post #7 |
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Jet lag hits me worse going to the UK, not coming back. I don't sleep on a plane. I just don't. So maybe that has something to do with it. When I arrive in Aus and get home it's anywhere between 5pm and 10pm depending on the flight. Hit the sack and don't get up till 8 or 10am. Done! Going to the UK we always arrive early morning (6.45am) time to enable pick-up or have the whole day in front of us. I'm bloody useless for a week! |
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