In article , Barry & Iris McCanna
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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We have quiet neighbours, quite perfect in fact. We live next door to
the
churchyard. ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk


Our nearest neighbours are over a quarter of a mile away, but all the
farmers in the surrounding area are wonderful bar one, who farms a
field on one of our boundaries. He is very careless with his
weedkiller and we find every year that over a metre inside our
boundaries starts to die off. He does the same to all the
neighbouring farmers and one took revenge last year by killing off
some of his maize. We have asked him to be more careful, but we just
get a shrug. Our main concern is to know when he does it and what he
uses because of our two precious dogs. Our youngest has this
afternoon been taken to the vet by my husband as he is suddenly far
from well and we hope and pray he has not eaten something. I am just
waiting and hoping ..............

Iris McCanna



Iris, Colin Boswell is/was a Farmer here on the Isle of Wight at
Newchurch and farms/grows Garlic.

One of his employees asked for protective clothing whilst spraying the
fields of Garlic, this was refused and said employee was sacked.

Employee took Boswell to court for unfair dismissal. Employee not only
won the case, but Boswell was fined heavily (to such an extent that I
'believe' he had to sell his share of the farm), not only for lack of
care in providing protection for his employees and sacking same, BUT,
for using a banned chemical, so,

A) Is your farmer using a banned chemical? (I doubt it, but it might
stir things up a bit if you ask in the right places as to what he is
using)

B) Is your farmer taking proper precautions? (By the sound of it, no)

C) Have you complained to Environmental Health?

D) Have you complained via your vet?

I love these cases ;-}

Chase him.

Best wishes

Mike
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