There is a bloke in a barge at the bottom of my garden.

[Justginnoschweppes]

Well not technically IN my garden, but close enough to see in my living room window! It’s annoying as they moore up all the time now till the end of summer. Some even wave at me when I’m sat on the couch 🙄 his little log burner must be going as puffs of smoke are coming out of the chimney.

I’m jealous of his freedom right now or should he be moored up some where staying put? But definitely not at the bottom of my garden!

Is He BU for chugging around the county side

Or is he NBU? As technically he isn’t walking about anywhere.

There's a girl in the garden .

Two metres min. Don't touch him with a barge pole.

@Ironfloor269 wins Mumsnet today...

ironfloor you made me and DH laugh - great comment

How picturesque.

Who owns the mooring?

Do you have riparian rights? We have a similar situation but actually own half the width of the river so could legitimately say 'get orf moi land'

@Justginnoschweppes

If you bought/moved into a house with a mooring site for barges, (and a canal at the bottom of your garden,) then you can hardly complain when a flippin' BARGE pops up near you!

Write the following on something big and hold it up to him.

      OI!  BARGE BLOKE!  YOU'RE LIVE ON MUMSNET!

Maybe he needs to get somewhere with water etc or food.

It’s quite possible he hasn’t heard that he shouldn’t be moving or that the 14 day max rule has been lifted

I’m sure it’s annoyingly having people look in, but perhaps you need to find a way to obscure their view as it seems to be a permanent issue. At least he seems friendly 🤷🏻‍♀️

Net curtains ?

If you own the mooring space YANBU. But if you don’t then YABU - isn’t it like he’s parked on the road outside your house, he has the right to be there. He may well live on the barge too.

The OP is the same type of person who moves into a house near a Church and then moans about the sound of the Church bells (or the Church clock striking.)

Guessing the canal has been there a while.

Looking at that link he's only doing something wrong if he's a leisure boater.
If he lives there he's entitled to move around.

Great. I’m singing the song now.

there's lots of boaters mooring up in quieter places since the tow paths are bursting at the seams with the exercising Self Isolaters.

I'd be floating about the lowland canals for a week if it wasn't for lockdown.

Jobseeker19 that’s creased me up and yes I can feel like that sometimes on a Sunday morning when I’m putting my washing out in my robe and some ones just their smiling at me like I’m the holiday rep or something.

I don’t own the mooring. But I didn’t know there was one there either it’s not marked very easy and I’m staggered people actually find it tbh.

But yeah it’s a bit of a peeve sometime, mostly it’s jolly and the kids love waving to the ‘narrow’ boats but sometimes two rock up and have a BBQ against the outside of my fence in the evening and as the blokes tend to huddle around the BBQ being all manly they tend to just stand directly —gorping— looking in to my house.

I don’t want to put bushes up as it’s a lovely view however I think the time has come for window screen.

Buy some blinds.

How long have you lived there @Justginnoschweppes?

I didn't think of worms, only fairies!

Buy the mooring! That would be awful for me, I would not be able to enjoy my home or garden being so public and random bbqing at the end of my garden while gawping would finish me off

UABVU for calling it a barge when it's very likely a narrowboat! So there's a canal (or river) at the end of your garden, with no private mooring, and you're annoyed there's a BOAT there?

Ooookay.......

Clearly you need to eat him OP.