CFN Thread #9 (Better call Planning)

[WhatIsThisWatt]

Okay so I wasn't going to post until I'd had some kind of resolution. However, planning called today to ask if they could access my garden on Friday as they need to do some "further investigation" and have another planning official who will be there to oversee it??

They wouldn't tell me over the phone what it was about (it wasn't Nice Planning Lady, it was someone I hadn't spoken with before)

Thanks pp for the thread title - which coincidentally was very apt!

No sign of CFN/ builders etc.

There's now a sign up saying
NO ENTRY IN TO PRIVATE GARDEN
CONTACT SOLICITORS NAME if you require further information.

Sorry @SchadenfreudePersonified

Y'areet?

Bargain @SchadenfreudePersonified

I would have said "buy two" but sounds like two may not exist. You have to get it before there's a rush.

Schaden,

Thanks, btw, for your translational skill of my earlier post: air vent...ha!

Please can you and faith do some more back-and-forth Spanish (mis)interpretations of something? ANYTHING! Was hilarious the other night.

Delurking and checking in from Nottingham

Schadenfreude I suppose Glamorgan should be Sergeant, seeing as it has the capital city.

That's the historical county, obviously. Which has in recent decades been chopped up into various city / borough councils.

I think the Vale of Glamorgan unitary authority has half-inched the sergeant's stripes for its flag. I know it's got Cowbridge (vair naice) but it's also got Barry (nuff said), and most importantly, it doesn't have the capital. Does it therefore count as a Cheeky Fucker Authority?

This might be of some help

www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/GeordieDictionary.html

I feel ever so slightly sorry for the builders if they turn up whilst SpanGran's home alone. I have a feeling they won't be allowed out the house in one piece. Either that, or she'll be forcing paella and sangria down their throats until they give up!

Decades ago when we were on a family holiday in North East England, my one brother bought a copy of 'Larn Yersel' Geordie'. I am pleased to see that this invaluable study aid is still available on Amazon*.

*other book retailers are available

@C8H10N4O2 I think these are the plastic pockets Wattyyy used to put her notice to the CFBs. Thought it would be helpful for folk to visualise when you post on the trello board

The flag of Manchester, sadly, is not registered with the flag institute.

she'll be forcing paella and sangria down their throats until they give up!

Don't waste the good stuff on them.

Give them Russian paella, and Russian beetroot and Moosehoof Vwodka sangria.

That'll teach the buggers!

Do I have to create a Trello Account to look at it properly? I can't find the flags mentioned above .

Done it anyway. Found flags. Cheers!

Following this from Germany, land of many a regulation (& pissed lion) I've just remembered my only encounter with planning regulations.

The stairs down to my garden which are from the 2nd floor go over a public path/right of way. Only ever used by lost hikers tbh. I had to pay the sum of €3.90 per annum for said use. Which considering it's in the air so to say, seemed a little petty.

But in 10 years I've never been billed for it. Would probably cost more in admin than it's worth in revenue.

@KitKat1985 my mind is blown! I thought the flag was Sussex and someone posted it as west only, now you post an East one?? OMG I take it all back! The other (blue) flag has nothing to do with me! Red one is mine along with kit Kat!

When I looked yesterday there WAS no thread 9 so started posting 'AIBU to be list without thread 9' on the space left at the end of thread 4 :)

I now, thanks to wattyyy and the CFN door saga have a Trello account AND the freakin app cause I was looking from my phone! Omg!

Historically Devon invented the cream tea with a scone so its historically correct for cream then jam.

The Cornish version the cream tea was traditionally served with a "Cornish split", a type of slightly sweet white bread roll, rather than a scone.

So if you're using a scone and not a Cornish split, it's cream then jam, if you're using a Cornish split sweet bread thing, you can do jam then cream :)

All of you who make a cream tea the Cornish way, are you using scones? Cause if so, it's NOT proper Cornish, scones for Devon cream tea!

Husband fed up with being ignored is catching up on Trello!

Aha! Flowergirl I am vindicated

Ellie, Devon, yes.

Seconding much praise for Vlad and Vanka scripts.

rushes in I missed that there was a thread 9! gasp wheeze

Somerset cream teas are also cream then jam, thick clotted cream as the base to stick the crumbs down, and then a perfect cornell of jam cradled on top - bliss.

I see someone has already added the Somerset flag so I'll give you the one from my hometown of Bridgwater.
I think it can be summed up as two lions saying "we have a bridge, neener neener".

I love the Nottinghamshire flag. I am hoping dd will go to Uni there so I can MSM her pics of it at inopportune moments.

"Or a Chief Azure overall five Pallets counterchanged." Dunno, @SchadenfreudePersonified sounds like some Olde Worlde Adrian Dunbar return to B&Q order. Pallets y'see.

Oh, and I still haven't made lemon curd and I now have 23 eggs to use up

StormTreader thanks for reminding me of the superior scones we have in Devon. They are so crumbly that without the cream sticking them together you will be left with a plate of crumbs awash with cream and jam in no particular order which you will have just lick up.....

What an amazing thread. Go for it Watty, you protect your own property! SpanGran will certainly help

CFN seem to be conspicuous by their absence which suggests the enormity of their ineptitude is now more than a sliver of light shining through their curtain of entitlement.

I would love to know how much the remedial works and likely court costs are going to be for them, hopefully it will be so much more than the fast buck they thought they'd make when 'developing' the adjoining flat.

@C8H10N4O2 Please could you add the flags of all three of the Yorkshire Ridings to the incredible Trello board, (I expect their users have skyrocketed since you showed us all what a fantastic site that is,) as well as the general Yorkshire flag which was one of the first to be posted.
Try as I might, I'm technically inept and can't copy the images here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_and_symbols_of_Yorkshire
Mine's East Yorkshire and I'm pretty sure we've already had posters from the West and North Ridings already, maybe the East too.

Here's a couple more guard animals to add to the menagerie in the garden Watty. One has fearsome spikes and the other has a yellow stare that will stop any intruder in their tracks

Oh and a massive thank-you to everyone who has contributed to these threads, it's a delight to see the positive support, help and fun that's helping Watty to deal with this awful intrusion into her garden life.

Butter?!? Surely not!?

Cream then jam, obviously.

Those on a healthy eating regime may substitute full fat Greek yogurt for the clotted cream.

(Butter on a scone?? What is wrong with people?)