You should go on a 'Reclaim your Sunday' demonstration march.

:)

Andy

*grin*

yeah, me and Dram marching up the streets of the village...

Yep, Dram with a wee tartan collar on with 'reclaim your sunday' stitched into it and you with your homemade placard and your foghorn.

:)

A tartan collar on a Westie? How stereotypical...

Nah, he's got a good sturdy brown leather collar. I'd have to make him a little jacket or something with it printed on it...

And can you imagine me waking up the neighbours with a foghorn at 8am on Sundays? *grin*

Hey, at least you'd get them all united behind something. Just a pity it'd be uniting behind driving you out of the village, but at least you'll have united them behind a common cause.

Oh they're already united in a cause, it's the "let's all walk past Sho's garden and say loudly 'her mother would never have let it get into that state'" cause....

*grin*

Didn't you have somebody that was gonna come in and tidy your garden up for you? Was it the same person who was gonna fix your gate? Or have they not come back yet?

this would be the friend of my sister's boyfriend who showed up once this year and never came back.

so yeah, my garden's now at the state where anyone joking about using a flamethrower on it wouldn't be laughed at...

So that flamethrower I got for christmas last year could get used after all.

:)

I don't think I want to know why you got a flame-thrower for Christmas last year....

*g*

It's so that I could use that line. *grins* And is your garden really that bad? And if you want any help with it just holler.

:)

Yup, it is that bad. I'm letting it all die down a little just now and then when I'm off over Christmas break I plan on taking an axe to the lot of it.

*grin*

Well, not the (and I use the term laughingly here) lawn of course, cause that would be silly.

Thanks!

Maybe you should put a sign in the garden:

"The owner of this house leaves for work at ** am and returns at ** pm. This secures her income - which is good for food, mortgage repayments and the like. The time spent at work and travelling to and from work means that it would be unreasonable to expect the the owner to spend time 'gardening' during the week.

The weekend consists of 48 hours. As you can tell from the owner's working week, she needs to spend some of this attempting to catch up on sleep (at least 16 hours for the 8 hours a night recommended by most doctors). Several hours, at least 3, are also used in the process of getting up and getting ready for bed. Time is also needed to do important things like shop for necessities such as food. (It would be unreasonable for her to do without, although this does seem to occur frequently in the case of breakfast.)

At the weekend shopping for essentials takes longer because it's busier, so we should allow 3 hours for this (to include travel and shopping time). Shopping for other items, particularly at this time of year, may also be required, so another 5 hours should be allocated to this on a just in case basis.

Usually the owner of this house spends Sunday helping her family, which can take approximately 6 - 7 hours. Because the owner spends much of her week at work, some of the weekend is used to do essential internal maintenance taking approximately 3 hours. The welfare of the owner's dog is very important to her, so she does spend time walking him, we should probably allocate at least 2 hours to this.

The owner of the house only has 12 hours left in her weekend, and no time has been dedicated to the preparation or eating of meals yet as well as all the other little bits and pieces that are part of day-to-day life! Furthermore, to maintain her sanity, she should aim to see or at least speak to one person who is not a member of her family over the weekend. With only 12 hours left and so much to do, the chances of the owner having any time/energy to deal with the garden are slim.

Get over it!

If it bothers you that much, help her instead of wasting valuable time moaning about it!"

Ok, so putting a sign up may not be a way to make friends and influence neighbours, but thinking about it may make you feel better!

*hugs*

Beck.

(And no, not calling your sister in the morning was not selfish - you need to have some time to yourself to do your stuff. And if she needed you, she has a phone which she could have used!)

Can you tell I'm in a confrontational/argumentative mood this morning?*bg*

Beck.

*hugs* you right back!

that is brilliant! I should print that out, laminate it, and stick it to the front gate!

Lol at Beck

Nah, like Beck says, not selfish. If you phone her every week, it probably gives her the impression that this is how you want to spend all your Sundays.

Families can be great, and from where I'm sitting it would be nice be able to spend more time with mine than I can. But you need your own time as well, especially with how hectic your week is, with the commute n'all. The worst thing would be to spend so much time with your sister's family, out of some sense of obligation, that you start resenting them.