Thanks Ruth you are a sweetie.
Right now though i am feeling like swallowing a tub of icecream. My brother in law and i are having a major dispute about personal space and it means my life is going to be massively restricted. There's not much way i can win this debate because he is threatening to leave if he can't get what he wants and my sister is not going to let that happen so she will have to side with him, even though she hasn't got the same problem as he does.
What he wants is this , and a bit of the general picture
We have 1 hectare of land. I'm going to call them jane and john becuase its a lot easier to type than my brother in law. They are building a house in the upper part of the block. My father has a dwelling in the central part of the block towards one boundary and i have my caravan in the lowest part of the block.
In the last year i have been gardening like crazy, and planning plantings for almost the whole block. I've planted up almost all the boundaries and put in irrigation along three sides open to the road - our block has roads almost all way around it.
John doesn't like my boundary planting, wishes i hadn't put in the irrigation line across the boundary above their place. He said he told me not to plant up there but i disagreed and remember him asking me not to plant too close to the house which i've done.
Now he doesn't want me to even be in the upper part of the block all for the sake of his privacy and personal space. Well i think if he just plants bushes around the house on two sides, he'd still have lots of privacy and personal space. But that's not enough for him and he says if he feels he can't live here, he will have to move. But of course as i said, jane is not going to let him move for this reason. So its either i accept his restrictions or not. The thing is, i resent his restrictions because he is not an owner of this place. I am willing to grant him a fair degree of restricted area but feel hurt by the whole thing anyway.
As to my section of the block, most of it is a) swamp for about 5 months of the year andb) is planted up as a bit of a forest. I wanted to have the whole block producing fruit and veg as well as being thickly planted with ornamentals. My vision for this place is for a paradise. I also want to grow animals and that's another bone of contention for john.
as to fruit and veg for example, on my western boundary, i've put in 2 rows of ornamental shrubs, a row of pineapples and between them is a gap where i am about to plant some vegetables. This is a good place to grow them becuae they get lots of sun and they get watered regularly from the sprinkler system that is already in place for the shrubs. My sister likes this set- up, john doesn't. It also means that the screening will be mature by the time they actually decide to move here.
Now i am going to grab a tapemeasure and where these bloody thirds lie exactly. I wish his third line would fall halfway across his bloody verandah and then he'd be up the creeek. However, i know that's unlikely.
So what can i eat. or i might phone up jan in Sydney and yabber to her for an hour which might keep me away from the icecream i badly want to eat. Actually i think a big piece of cake with cream would do. I have really let go of icecream and all manufactured foods. I want quality if i am going to be indulgent. Yummy quality. *tears of frustration* not really. I can't cry anymore.
Right now though i am feeling like swallowing a tub of icecream. My brother in law and i are having a major dispute about personal space and it means my life is going to be massively restricted. There's not much way i can win this debate because he is threatening to leave if he can't get what he wants and my sister is not going to let that happen so she will have to side with him, even though she hasn't got the same problem as he does.
What he wants is this , and a bit of the general picture
We have 1 hectare of land. I'm going to call them jane and john becuase its a lot easier to type than my brother in law. They are building a house in the upper part of the block. My father has a dwelling in the central part of the block towards one boundary and i have my caravan in the lowest part of the block.
In the last year i have been gardening like crazy, and planning plantings for almost the whole block. I've planted up almost all the boundaries and put in irrigation along three sides open to the road - our block has roads almost all way around it.
John doesn't like my boundary planting, wishes i hadn't put in the irrigation line across the boundary above their place. He said he told me not to plant up there but i disagreed and remember him asking me not to plant too close to the house which i've done.
Now he doesn't want me to even be in the upper part of the block all for the sake of his privacy and personal space. Well i think if he just plants bushes around the house on two sides, he'd still have lots of privacy and personal space. But that's not enough for him and he says if he feels he can't live here, he will have to move. But of course as i said, jane is not going to let him move for this reason. So its either i accept his restrictions or not. The thing is, i resent his restrictions because he is not an owner of this place. I am willing to grant him a fair degree of restricted area but feel hurt by the whole thing anyway.
As to my section of the block, most of it is a) swamp for about 5 months of the year andb) is planted up as a bit of a forest. I wanted to have the whole block producing fruit and veg as well as being thickly planted with ornamentals. My vision for this place is for a paradise. I also want to grow animals and that's another bone of contention for john.
as to fruit and veg for example, on my western boundary, i've put in 2 rows of ornamental shrubs, a row of pineapples and between them is a gap where i am about to plant some vegetables. This is a good place to grow them becuae they get lots of sun and they get watered regularly from the sprinkler system that is already in place for the shrubs. My sister likes this set- up, john doesn't. It also means that the screening will be mature by the time they actually decide to move here.
Now i am going to grab a tapemeasure and where these bloody thirds lie exactly. I wish his third line would fall halfway across his bloody verandah and then he'd be up the creeek. However, i know that's unlikely.
So what can i eat. or i might phone up jan in Sydney and yabber to her for an hour which might keep me away from the icecream i badly want to eat. Actually i think a big piece of cake with cream would do. I have really let go of icecream and all manufactured foods. I want quality if i am going to be indulgent. Yummy quality. *tears of frustration* not really. I can't cry anymore.
