Cinnamon Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 We were chatting about this over a nice lunch at Nandos today. Would you shop a neighbour or in fact anyone at all to the authorities for using a hosepipe during the ban? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Ours would very likely get out their shotguns and fire a few rounds off if we did that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 I am assuming it would be anonymous.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Depending on who they were.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 I actually thought about it the other day when I saw someone close to daughters school blatantly washing their car with a hosepipe on their drive. They live on a very busy road, so loads of people must have seen them, which I thought made their flouting of the ban quite odd. I don't know them though, and at the end of the day I didn't report them.. Not sure whether or not I'd report them if I saw it again though, quite possibly I have to admit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 It's difficult, but I guess a ban is a ban, I remember a friend of my mum filling her rather large pond under the cover of darkness last time there was a ban, with not a hint of guilt karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 It's difficult, but I guess a ban is a ban, I remember a friend of my mum filling her rather large pond under the cover of darkness last time there was a ban, with not a hint of guilt karen x I have to admit that that would be my weekness and I'd have to try very hard not to. The pond is a wildlife one not an ornimental koi carp jobbie. Having said that I would be 2 faced and report someone for using a hosepipe that I considered to be unecessary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Difficult one - I probably would, especially if everyone else was observing the ruling, however, I think the water companies should get their house in order first and repair all the leaks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 The pond is a wildlife one not an ornimental koi carp jobbie. I think you'd be allowed to fill your wildlife pond. I was looking at the BBC website and even with a Drought Order, I believe that fishponds can still be filled. With a Hosepipe Ban apparently "hosepipes can still be used to fill swimming pools and hot tubs or wash driveways, patios and paths." This was news to me! And why are driveways patios and paths more important than plants? There was also a puzzling exemption to the ban on washing cars when there is a Drought Order - you can do so "for reasons of safety and hygiene" Well, that is why I wash my car! So it might be best not to rush to report people, since the rules on hosepipe bans and drought orders are quite complicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 That made me feel a bit better Ruth so thank you. I feel sure (although I don't know) that anyone making a report will be asked the circumstances and a decision will be made whether to give a warning or not based on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 I've voted for maybe. I've never lived in an area where a hose pipe ban was enforced, so I'd have to look up what was and wasn't allowed before I shopped anybody. Again, it would also depend on who it was and what they were doing. We have a really horrid blokey living a few doors down from us (just going off topic slighty) The whole street were asked by the council if we'd like to adopt some trees and look after them if they were planted. The majority said 'yes please', and we all now have a tree to see to outside our house. Those who didn't want to do it have passed the job on to someone who does. Said horrible neighbour, dug his tree and his neighbours tree up because he didn't like the leaves falling on the road. The council have been and replaced the trees twice, and yet he continues to dig them up. There are now two great big gaping holes where the trees used to be that are over-run with nettles. We keep saying we are going to dig them up and give them to him to dispose of. Sounds awful - but I'd shop him in a second! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Oh what a nasty meanie. I bet he doesn't care a bit for the environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I voted 'no' too because I am so fed up with Thames Water and their complete inability to fix leaks!! There has been a water leak in a road in Leytonstone, that I drive or walk down most days, that has been leaking for THREE YEARS!!! Yep - you read that right . Amazing. Mind you I am observing the ban myself and using a watering can to water all my dozens of container plants Cookie. xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Thanks goodness I am on private water I can't see the river tweed drying up any time soon so I should be okay for a few years I don't think there are any water shortages up here but I remember what it was like down south you just get the plants looking nice and they slap on a hosepipe ban Mind you even this part of the world was affected by the 1976 scorcher I can remember as a child being in a paddling pool in the garden where we lived in Fife normally you would still have a layer of ice forming even in the summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 However, if someone were using a phone whilst driving or parking on double yellow lines then I would come down on them like a ton of bricks. what if they were using a hose whilst driving? or hosing on a double yellow line? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 what if they were using a hose whilst driving? or hosing on a double yellow line? Phil I would cane them (obviously) and then I would hang 'em! Hang 'em high! Hang 'em high? Hanging 'em high's too good for them!! I'd boil them in oil, beat them with some starched britches, roll them in a patch of nettles and feed them to the Penguins... that'll learn 'em... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgies Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I take it that's just for first offenders Phil? What about persistent users?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 (edited) Then, I'd grab back the hosepipe, and put it in the pool to fill it up for the Penguins. Hey, at least the Penguins are doing OK. Oh Dan, just to get pulled in again, I don't think it is purely a Londoncentric news report. I can't bare cleansed water being wasted anywhere, whether there's loads or not. I was just saying to my son this evening, having a laugh together at the absolutely typical English irony of a hosepipe ban amidst torrential rain, "yes, but I think water should always be treated as a precious resource, everywhere, all the time, and should be treated like anything else valuable and not wasted..." ...to which, he replied, "Yes, but that's because you're a ****middle aged ***, isn't it?! Sorry, can't remember exact words, think they were terms of endearment, he loves his mum! PS, can we eat the Penguins now? Edited May 22, 2006 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I'd need Dan's help for that!!! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 PS, can we eat the Penguins now? I presume you mean the chocolate variety?? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 ....well the other sort don't taste too good -allegedly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I think they taste a bit like squirrel - very blubbery squirrel... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 No - they taste fishy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 yeah - it's difficult to describe.. a sort of blubbery-fishy-squirrely-chicken taste.. goes down very well with a bottle of 1998 Chateau St. Jean La Petite Etoile Fume Blanc... (and some chips) Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 goes down very well with a bottle of 1998 Chateau St. Jean La Petite Etoile Fume Blanc... (and some chips) Phil Not water then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
