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[Claymore]

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[RogerS]

Top man! =D>

Where we are now (near Hadrian's Wall...what the heck do people see in it? :shock: ) we still unfortunately have a footpath through the estate.

Sunday 1...LOML was just walking up to the house, turned the corner and met two people wandering about. She asked what were they doing and the reply was 'We've come for a look round". WTF ?

Few Sunday's later, again she happens to walk back to the house only to see some numb nuts, getting out of their car and having parked it on our lawn. Just about to go off for a walk. WTF ?

What is it with those cretins?

Today, I come back from the town and find a car parked in our turning area..They have driven down our drive to get there. Big sign saying "XXXXX House" .How I stayed polite I will never know.

 

[dynax]

Top man! =D>

Where we are now (near Hadrian's Wall...what the heck do people see in it? :shock: ) we still unfortunately have a footpath through the estate.

Sunday 1...LOML was just walking up to the house, turned the corner and met two people wandering about. She asked what were they doing and the reply was 'We've come for a look round". WTF ?

Few Sunday's later, again she happens to walk back to the house only to see some numb nuts, getting out of their car and having parked it on our lawn. Just about to go off for a walk. WTF ?

What is it with those cretins?

Today, I come back from the town and find a car parked in our turning area..They have driven down our drive to get there. Big sign saying "XXXXX House" .How I stayed polite I will never know.

me being me, who can't stand people like that would dig a trench all round the car :twisted:

 

[Claymore]

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[novocaine]

Sodding landed gentry. You're all the same.

 

[NazNomad]

I had a couple of guys walk up the field one day...

Me - ''Can I help you?''

Guy 1 - ''We're looking for a water pipe''

Me - ''What can you possibly expect to achieve with a water pipe when you're too dumb to read the 'PRIVATE PROPERTY - NO TRESPASSING'' sign next to the gate you just climbed over''.

Guy 2 - ''Someone said the water main was here''.

Me - ''Well it's not, so you can... off''.

I have a very low threshold for stupid people.

 

[RogerS]

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ps Love it around Hadrian's wall did they ever get it finished? lol
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Nah...tourists kept nicking the stones :lol:

 

[RossJarvis]

Yep, I hate tourists, always getting in the way when I'm on holiday. Not quite as bad as other road users though.

 

[Bm101]

As one of the primary landowners in London (mostly highways passed down by heritage, will and estate) imagine my surprise when travelling down the Euston Road (in my family's care for many a year) this very morn, an Uber driver impeded by a bus tried to encroach upon my families property!? The very shock of it. I signalled both my ownership of the road, the lack of space for transitional vagrancy and my hereditary right of way with a gentlemanly toot of my vehicular's horn. Imagine my surprise then when I was met with a barrage of vile abuse and the hand gestures that seemed to indicate the other driver wanted to indulge in a game of one potato two potato three potato four. Flabbergasted, I maintained my road position whist said corpulent was forced to adhere shockingly to the rules of the Queens highway and brake sharply. Severley admonished he was seemingly forced by indiscipline and intolerant response into the bus lane. As the camera flashed I of course as a Gentleman Of The Road refrained from laughing smugly. Seemingly incensed he caught me up 3 sets of lights later. It appears he was surprised when he looked at me and realised we were now at at standstill and he was no longer protected by vehicular movement. I gently suggested by opening my van door, leaning out and cupping my hand to my ear that I had misunderstood his intention to play one potato two potato three potato four and did he indeed want to repeat it to my face now we were at a standstill and he had no where to run it seemed he had lost some items of minor value because he stared intently redfaced at the floor of his taxi and continued to do so as I questioned the legitimacy of his family's right to dominate the road. And, the very cheek of it, to act like he owned it. He seemed strangely reluctant to answer. Honour as a gentleman sated, I continued on my journey blessing my heritage as part of the Worshipful Company of Mad Window Cleaners Who Dont Give Two F***s If You Really Want Some Pal and slowly relinquishing my hold on the pry bar I keep to hand for such altercations with prying stuff at work Officer and I drove off whistling cheerfully. What is the world coming to I thought as I sallied forth down the highway. Some people really should be able to control their tempers I thought happily as I drove off into the sunrise.

 

[Claymore]

As one of the primary landowners in London (mostly highways passed down by heritage, will and estate) imagine my surprise when travelling down the Euston Road (in my family's care for many a year) this very morn, an Uber driver impeded by a bus tried to encroach upon my families property!? The very shock of it. I signalled both my ownership of the road, the lack of space for transitional vagrancy and my hereditary right of way with a gentlemanly toot of my vehicular's horn. Imagine my surprise then when I was met with a barrage of vile abuse and the hand gestures that seemed to indicate the other driver wanted to indulge in a game of one potato two potato three potato four. Flabbergasted, I maintained my road position whist said corpulent was forced to adhere shockingly to the rules of the Queens highway and brake sharply. Severley admonished he was seemingly forced by indiscipline and intolerant response into the bus lane. As the camera flashed I of course as a Gentleman Of The Road refrained from laughing smugly. Seemingly incensed he caught me up 3 sets of lights later. It appears he was surprised when he looked at me and realised we were now at at standstill and he was no longer protected by vehicular movement. I gently suggested by opening my van door, leaning out and cupping my hand to my ear that I had misunderstood his intention to play one potato two potato three potato four and did he indeed want to repeat it to my face now we were at a standstill and he had no where to run it seemed he had lost some items of minor value because he stared intently redfaced at the floor of his taxi and continued to do so as I questioned the legitimacy of his family's right to dominate the road. And, the very cheek of it, to act like he owned it. He seemed strangely reluctant to answer. Honour as a gentleman sated, I continued on my journey blessing my heritage as part of the Worshipful Company of Mad Window Cleaners Who Dont Give Two F***s If You Really Want Some Pal and slowly relinquishing my hold on the pry bar I keep to hand for such altercations with prying stuff at work Officer and I drove off whistling cheerfully. What is the world coming to I thought as I sallied forth down the highway. Some people really should be able to control their tempers I thought happily as I drove off into the sunrise.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Lons]

Problem is that most of the tourists, especially those in huge 4x4s come from the big cities and have never seen a lawn or field never mind a gate. Have to make allowances for the poor sods. :wink:

You joke about them taking stones Roger but it's true, I've seen it happen. :roll:

 

[Jacob]

Problem is that most of the tourists, especially those in huge 4x4s come from the big cities and have never seen a lawn or field never mind a gate. Have to make allowances for the poor sods. :wink:

You joke about them taking stones Roger but it's true, I've seen it happen. :roll:

In my experience (vaguely amateur archaeologist) most ancient monument vandalism is committed by farmer landowners, some removed completely.
A local bronze age tumulus was attacked by tractor and digger some years ago. He found some broken pots and a few bones but nothing of value apparently.
A farmer was caught removing stones from a small stone circle in Wales because he thought they might be worth a bit.
You will find that much of Hadrian's wall and many varieties of stone, megaliths etc. were removed in the recent and ancient past for building purposes; pig sties, gateposts etc
Not to mention the farmers who seem to hate their work and the whole area is covered in junk, wrecked farm machinery, black plastic sheets trodden into the mud etc etc.
Gerrorf moy laand!! :roll: Land tax long overdue!

 

[NazNomad]

Land tax long overdue!

... from someone that doesn't own any? :-D

 

[Lons]

Well some people who shall remain nameless can't resist a dig, despite no personal experience I strongly suspect. Have you even been to Hadrians wall or is it something else dug out of the papers and internet and announced as "fact". :roll:

 

[Jacob]

Well some people who shall remain nameless can't resist a dig, despite no personal experience I strongly suspect. Have you even been to Hadrians wall or is it something else dug out of the papers and internet and announced as "fact". :roll:

Yes have been to Hadrians wall and yes personal experience involved and have had confrontations with some appalling land owners.
It's hardly a new idea that farmers can be some of the worst custodians of the landscape. Not least because they have the access and the power (and the EU subsidies - but not for long :lol: ) Not all of them of course.

 

[Claymore]

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[AJB Temple]

Some years ago I owned a house and surrounding farm (rented out) perched atop a hill in Surrey. You had to get to it down a no through road and then a long drive way off that, to reach the house, which was basically set in a 7 acre field. Regularly in the summer we would get people having picnics in our garden. Usually they would park part way down in our drive in " the parking spot" , which was actually a turning spot opposite a field entrance, so we could get a tractor and trailer through.

Mostly they were embarrassed and apologetic. Some were stroppy and rude. The stroppy and rude ones were easily dealt with: at the turn off point we had a cattle grid that we could lift really easily to dig out the ditch. It could be locked up. Sometimes we left it locked up for ages....

Now and again we would get coping stones pinched for our main gate entrance. Really annoyed me. Always assumed that was the work of travellers.

 

[Jacob]

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Now and again we would get coping stones pinched for our main gate entrance. Really annoyed me. Always assumed that was the work of travellers.

Could have been farmers? What would travellers want with coping stones? Clue - they don't have walls. :lol:

 

[Claymore]

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[Jacob]

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...... 99% of tourists are no problem but every now and again you get some funny incidents with them and no harms done.....

Same with farmers.
Nowadays lot of country people depend on visitors for their livelihood so they tend to be better behaved than they were. Occasionally you just have to point out to an irritable farmer that you do actually buy local lamb/ beef/ etc etc which keeps his farm going, or pay rent for local holiday cottages, B&Bs etc. They are not all totally thick!