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No, Janet, you are wrong. You are focusing on one small part of my post and
pretending it is the reason for my post. My problem, as Alan and others have already pointed out to you and Kay, is one of gardening etiquette and neighbor relations. I've already said that the laws in the U.K. do not apply in the USA. I'm looking for opinions, not legal advice. Thanks anyway, and have a great day The part Kay replied to was the short paragraph containing the question, "Does the law obligate me to trim vines that enter my neighbors yard? " Janet. |
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In article , Michelle C
writes No, Janet, you are wrong. You are focusing on one small part of my post and pretending it is the reason for my post. Excuse me. I am the best person to verify or not Janet's statement "The part Kay replied to was the short paragraph containing the question, "Does the law obligate me to trim vines that enter my neighbors yard? " That is indeed the part I was replying to. I was concerned that you were unaware that this was a UK newsgroup (as several of your compatriots have been) and that you would take any advice relating to the law in the UK as applying to your country, which of course it would not. My problem, as Alan and others have already pointed out to you and Kay, is one of gardening etiquette and neighbor relations. I've already said that the laws in the U.K. do not apply in the USA. I'm looking for opinions, not legal advice. In your original post you asked several questions: "But now I'm wondering who is right, and who is wrong, in this situation? Am I right to think my neighbors are cranky? Does the law obligate me to trim vines that enter my neighbors yard? Should they accept the minor chore of vine trimming in return for having such a beautiful backdrop (their words) to their garden?" It wasn't till a later post that you said that you were looking for opinions and that you were aware that the law as we know it (ie UK) would not apply. Your original post read as a request for your legal position, and this is not the best ng for that. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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Hello Janet,
Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 6:32:09 PM, you wrote: JB Perhaps you hadn't had a baby I'm a man or was the last time I looked. JB conveyanced property or land, Nope. JB employed any building trades, Yes, I had some plaster repaired in my ceiling before leaving Glasgow and he said it would need two and a half feet of new plaster! JB used a modern recipe book, Yes, frequently and most are still in metric and imperial. JB or ordered anything made to measure for quite some time beforehand? Yes, and again a combination of yards and metres was used. Anyway it was "Yards" that were mentioned, albeit garden yards as I said in my next mail and asked that this one be ignored ;-) As far as I know the UK still uses yards, feet and miles. Other measurements weren't part of the message. -- Best regards, Richard (remove NS to reply) mailto:richard.wakeford@wanadoNS/fr |
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In article , Janet Baraclough
writes The OP chose her own header. The OP didn't once mention USA in the header or in the message. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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"Michelle C" wrote in message ... Three years ago, my neighbors were storing a canoe up against the chain link fence that separates our backyards. It was an eyesore. My opinion is that I have no right complaining to my neighbors about what they do on their own property, so I took a pro-active approach instead. I planted some Silver Lace vines on the chain link fence. This worked very well and by the end of summer it hid the canoe, and it looked really nice. snip He told me that he and his wife shouldn't have to trim it at all, because it was my vine. snip IMHO and IME you are wrong and they are right :-) i think they were being bit petty to be honest, for example they could have said 'do you mind if we trim your vines', but suppose it was any other sort of invasive weed or tall tree, it would definitely be your responsibility so i thinks its just that they are small that makes you think you dont have to do it. IME you have made a start getting on good terms with them so get over your annoyance, trim the vines and invite them back. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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"Michelle C" wrote in message ... snip Agree to remove the vines if they're willing to replace them with something just as pleasing ... ( 10 foot brick wall with razor wire on the top! (joke)) ... if they decline your offer you can still remove the vines but give them something worse to moan about ... start a compost heap by the fence with the optimum benefit of view et. al. for them righ up against the fence. If they then complain ... just shrug and point out 'politely of course' they asked for it! Obviously this may cause some conflict with your neighbours so choose this course with care. As for them complaining about your trees which were there long before their pool, you could ask if they had the sense to notice this issue before they installed it ... and that they can purchase pool covers for when autumn occurs as it has occurred quite often in the past ... I think it happens yearly! Seriously though, you can only go so far to be accomodating as we all have to live with each other ... but it's finding where to draw the line that is hardest sometimes. -- p00kie -- |
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"Michelle C" wrote in message ... None of which you mentioned in your original post and none of which have anything to do with a Polygonum eating some of your neighbour's plants. Yes, it's known as "additional" information. I supplied it because I thought it would help people to better understand the situation. Am I not allowed to do that? If you have a garden big enough to house mature oaks and elms in the plural, then I can't imagine you and your neighbours need to have much to do with each other unless you choose to do so. Except when it comes to their petty complaints. Petty?!!? I'd be ****ed off if my next door neighbour did something that meant I had to some work every 2 to 3 weeks! I had originally envisaged it being a once or twice a year job, hence my comment about being petty. I think you are lucky they didnt just spray them with weedkiller and put it down to a disease. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... "Michelle C" wrote in message ... Three years ago, my neighbors were storing a canoe up against the chain link fence that separates our backyards. It was an eyesore. My opinion is that I have no right complaining to my neighbors about what they do on their own property, so I took a pro-active approach instead. I planted some Silver Lace vines on the chain link fence. This worked very well and by the end of summer it hid the canoe, and it looked really nice. snip He told me that he and his wife shouldn't have to trim it at all, because it was my vine. snip IMHO and IME you are wrong and they are right :-) i think they were being bit petty to be honest, for example they could have said 'do you mind if we trim your vines', but suppose it was any other sort of invasive weed or tall tree, it would definitely be your responsibility so i thinks its just that they are small that makes you think you dont have to do it. Comment re 'petty' withdrawn now I understand its a once a fortnight job! -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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Petty?!!? I'd be ****ed off if my next door neighbour did something that
meant I had to some work every 2 to 3 weeks! I consider it petty. But then I like plants and gardening. I think you are lucky they didnt just spray them with weedkiller and put it down to a disease. That would be illegal in my country. But not in yours? |
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You've had your two cents worth and more. And now ou are trolling IMO. What a surprise. Ask these questions in USA. What is legal in UK is of no importance to your (apparent) problem. But now my curiousity is piqued, so you'll have to forgive me. My post was titled "legal/ethical dilemma" and one of your countrymen said I was lucky that my neighbors didn't poison my plants. Excuse me for asking, but is such a thing legal or ethical in your country? It isn't in ours, but as you said, your laws are different. Just curious. Nice chatting with you. Have a nice day! |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:40:43 -0500, "Michelle C"
wrote: Maybe the growing conditions are not as good in my yard, but the Silver Lace vines only require trimming every 2-3 weeks, as I said. snip It's not called Mile-a-Minute for nothing! Your own Robert Lee Frost said "good fences make good neighbours". Be a good neighbour, rip out the vines and plant something less rampant that will cover the chain-link fence and screen them from you and you from them. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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"Phil L" wrote in message k... Duncan Heenan wrote: :: "Michelle C" wrote in message :: ... ::: snip :: :: As you are an American, I suggest that as someone has upset you, :: you bomb the hell out of them, invade their garden, occupy it, :: take their natural resources to pay for the damage, and then :: insist that they thank you for showing them the American Way. :: Have a nice day y'all. Just like Britain did with India, Burma, Australia, America, Canada etc etc etc. -- http://www.blueyonder256k.myby.co.uk/ And that was wrong too. And those people complained too. And were ignored too. And so turned in to 'terrorists' too and bit the arse of the aggressors too. The main lesson of history is that no-one learns from it. |
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I'm not going to comment on legal issues as that is the cause of most neighbour disputes. Frankly the law isn't really relevant as a nuisance is a nuisance whatever the law says.
Firstly - the canoe. The correct procedure if the sight of the canoe offended you would have been to ask nicely for it to be moved. Failing that, you could easily have found a way of masking it without your solution causing problems for your neighbour. Secondly - your ( unwitting?) boundary terrorism. Planting anything on your boundary without your neighbours agreement which then imposes on your neighbour is frankly bad manners and inconsiderate. You may well like the vine and be willing to trim it regularly, but why should you demand that your neighbour is equally willing. You seem surprised that the subject is raised in your own home, but surely any such complaint is better at a social meeting that through a legal proceeding. It's not about whether you have a right to plant a vine on the boundary, but whether it's reasonable, and it quite clearly isn't as far as your neighbour is concerned, which is pretty much the clincher. If you have to ask whether you should remove a source of nuisance to your neighbour, then you obviously have no understanding of what being a good neighbour requires. |
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Michelle C wrote: You've had your two cents worth and more. And now ou are trolling IMO. What a surprise. Ask these questions in USA. What is legal in UK is of no importance to your (apparent) problem. But now my curiousity is piqued, so you'll have to forgive me. My post was titled "legal/ethical dilemma" and one of your countrymen said I was lucky that my neighbors didn't poison my plants. Excuse me for asking, but is such a thing legal or ethical in your country? It isn't in ours, but as you said, your laws are different. No, it isn't. In general, USA law is developed from English law, with 250 years of deviations of detail. Unlike with the language, English law is not a near-superset of USA law, and there is as much in the latter that is not in the former as vice versa. The subsetting is why educated English speakers can understand almost all USA English (though not Ebonics and some Yiddish etc. imports), but the converse is not true. Neither way round is true of the law. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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