Urgent - WWBU to ask them to move their camper can out of our driveway

[bumbleymummy]

Strange situation - woke this morning to find a camper van parked at the end of our driveway. There's a note in the window with an apology saying that they are sorry to park there but they arrived late etc etc. it's a battered old thing with an Irish number plate. Do we give them the benefit of the doubt and think they'll be gone in the next hour or do we ask them to leave and risk creating a bad situation? I'm in the 'get off my land!' way of thinking but DH wants to give them an hour in case it is genuinely just a case of someone about to fall asleep and pulling into the nearest safe place. I would have thought if that was the case they would have moved on after a short nap though!

It wouldn't sub letting because it would be free of charge.

Oh come on TimeWasting, fight the power in real life, not just on MN!

Can I repeat what I said earlier about understanding having to pull in to sleep if you were tired. We decided to give him an hour or so to leave. I just can't believe how many people expected us to just leave him there for half a day and offer him tea and sandwiches simply because he's not blocking access! There does come a point when it stops being an necessity and starts becoming a piss take and that is considerably before midday! He obviously agreed because he had left by what we considered to be a reasonable time.

Upahill - you are a star! I promise never to turn up without asking!

to you.

If I'm in I'll make you a brew but best to check before hand!!

"and then buggered off early doors"

PMSL @ the idea that 9:45 is "early doors". Ah, those were the days

Update from DH - he came down the lane and said thank you and he had stopped at about 3.30 because he was tired. He's on his way to someone to get the camper an fixed or something. So he was a nice guy and it was an emergency which was what we were treating it as. I don't think it would have been unreasonable of us to have asked him to leave and not offered tea and sandwiches if he had stayed another few hours though!

To Hell with his 'nice guy in an emergency' routine.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
Anarchy in the streets!
Eh Rhinestone?

Really pictish, I don't think the situation quite warrants the wanton quoting of Manic Street Preachers lyrics. I mean really.

I'm very upset about the Manics lyrics being used for right wing purposes.

Sorry about the wanton quoting!

Alls well that ends well.

Well all's well that end's well then.

Now, what about picnickers?? What's the MN view on them?

I have sometimes - once a year or so? - found people picnicking in our field. This is immediately adjoining our garden, not fenced off from the garden, and accessed via a 5 bar gate from a public walkway alongside the sea. No 'private' sign on the gate, but the house name is on the gate, and once you come through - or actually even just look through - it is totally obvious that it leads to a house rather than a park or something.

What makes people think they can just come and have a picnic in a field when there is an entire sodding BEACH in the other direction??

I always ask them to leave - politely - but their reactions have ranged from very apologetic to downright bolshy. The bolshy ones get told I will let the dogs out.... (actually only 1 soppy Lab, but they don't know that).

Boshy I would say that picknickers are taking the piss.

I can understand if they have made a mistake but to be bolshy is just rude and ignorant.

and actually, the damage that 1 Labrador could do to a picnic is quite significant...

We used to live in a house with a river at the bottom of the back garden. People used to row up and down the river sometimes - it's not terribly wide certainly not the Thames or Kennet. One day I went into the back garden and could see heads on our patio at the riverside. They were four people who had got out of their boat and were having a picnic in our garden! We asked them to move. It was perfectly obvious that it was a garden because it was just an estate of semi detached houses.

Did you post about that Boschy? Rings a bell.

I would have felt territorial like you OP. That fact that you have a long drive and live in the country does not make you fair game for people parking up on your property.

Pag at your experience.

I have many odd people drawn to my house like months to a flame

We ended up buying the land they used to occupy to stop the nuisance. It was so worth it.

One of the first threads I ever got absorbed with on MN was the car that was left parked in your driveway Pag - didn't it turn out to be a friend of your son's?

Yes, yes it was. Fortunately I didn't let the dogs on him.

I had another car parked about a month ago. Never did find out who it was but didn't dare post.

There are loads of things I don't dare post about.

rulebritannia on the patio? the bare-faced cheek!! it is quite funny though, I almost relish the prospect of turfing them out sometimes.

not posted about it before exit - it must obviously be a more common occurrence than we all thought!

It was a tale of picknickers and berry pickers on someone else's land.

Was it a VW? Please say it was so I can go over to the VW forum and see if the other side of the story is there