Patio Garden | Neighbours’ Garden Fall Out
Helping with ruibbish collection yes, but gardening no.
With two children and yourself it does not take much time to do a little gardening.
You do no need anything more then your hands and something to cut the grass, even a push mower requiring no electricity cut grass really well. Give something for your children to earn their pocket money if they get some.
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I dont think i have heard such a load of old rubbish in my life! why do the states have anything to do with the fact you decide not to have pride in your surroundings, and there for affect others arround you, its not an acrea for gods sake!
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Lazy woman.
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Ms Ellis perhaps should consider making a pile of rubbish and getting a bit more creative with her garden….Why rely on the States – get off your behind and do something about it – take pride in the space you have.
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Do it yourself or ask to move somewhere with a patio garden.
The other rubbish can be collected ,there is a very good service that will collect it at a small price..probably the cost of a few drinks on a night out! If you cannot afford it .Asked you kind neighbour ,who is moaning to take it to the tip for you.
There are many states houses that are a disgrace About time the housing department reread the tenancy agreement and activated the rules they made!
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Wants the States to do more? Don’t make me laugh. Stop watching the telly dear and get YOUR backside into gear.
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Presumably the money she should have spent on maintaining the garden was spent on the flatscreen TV as per the box in the picture.
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She can manage to get her rubbish to a place where it is not under her feet but visible to offend her neighbours though.
Her neighbours have the time to complain to the media. In much less time the offending rubbish could easily have been recycled and burnt. That would be all too easy for these people
Maybe the taxpayers should pay for a chef, a chauffeur and a housekeeper to keep things running more smoothly for her.
Maybe some readers will make themselves heard here?
This is all too common nowadays. The more one helps others the more helpless and reliant they become.
She gets no sympathy from me.
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Why has this private dispute reached the pages of the Guernsey Press? This should be sorted out between the parties involved – and the Housing Department if necessary.
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PLP, I think its largely because its a thin news week, even for Guernsey. But there is a degree of public interest involved since it is almost certainly taxpayers who will end up paying to clean up this lady’s mess whilst she sits on her backside enjoying her new TV.
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Perhaps Dave Jones could send a digger round.
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…when I lived in Guernsey we had a neighbour who grew very fine vegetables and used to offer us the prime of his crop….I should have complained to the Press that he was being too kind and possibly trying to ingratiate himself to win over friends…when will this Guernsey parochial small headless stuff ever stop being reported…
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Surely it`s none of our business how the neighbour`s garden looks. That`s their problem, not ours.
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vic gamble
No doubt these small filler stories will stop when the next murder/rape/air crash/multiple car pile up/terror alert/guns in school/boating accident/earthquake/Environment balls-up happens
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Just look at the lively response this story has prompted! This is the kind of story that makes reading the Press worthwhile.
Ms Ellis might try enrolling with Guernsey Dinner Dating, stipulating any prospective suitor to be of a horticultural bent.
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what a good laugh this story gave me
she wants a states paid gardener to do it for her and whats even more funny is she will probably get one .
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The environment can`t afford to keep the grass banks near the aquarium in a mown state so why should they be able to mow her garden?
The pool area is crammed packed with visitors and locals alike during this hot weather and the area looks like a jungle. There is also a rockfall that has been surrounded by steel barriers for over two years now, you`d have thought that the States would have had that cleared by the firm doing the rockface further along the road while they had the equipment there.
Do these departments ever talk to each other?
As for Ms Ellis, it`s about time she got off her bottom and got on with sorting her garden out.
The Housing Authority know about this now and should issue her with a notice informing her that if it is not cleared in one month then she will be turfed out. I bet the garden will be cleared then.
Come on Housing, use the powers you have and show your tenants that you mean what is in your rental agreements. GET SOME BALLS.
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What we need to do is to make sure the next generation get educated at what is expected of them as a responsibility.
I am sick of a generation who think the island owes them something.
I am so glad there are a few who do what they can to help themselves perhaps the other can take a leave out of their book.
Get out and keep yourself and do what ever you can to help keep the island special.
There are many older folks who are disabled who struggled to cope with their own gardens
they find a way to do it ,even if it is a bit each day
Sitting on your butt does not get it done
perhaps horticulture should be brought back in to the senior school again.as i know the primary school have an active clubs for this.
make sure they have pride in themselves and in their surroundings.
And as for the states having to pay for this ,that is a disgrace and the man who complained should also be ashamed picking on a young mum. If she had a partner there would he be so quick to pick on her then?
His own garden is not that much of a paradise as having walked passed there many times it had rubbish in the corner and brambles overgrowing onto the pavement .
All I could see was a grass area that was cut .
this was last year so perhaps he has now removed it all .
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She should consider herself lucky to have a garden, and get herself off her backside and clear it. If States Tenants don’t look after their gardens then put them in a flat!
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to start off with i have lived at my place for almost 4 years not 1 just shows how much the neighbour pays attention and falling out? he not said one word to me about my garden and what i was trying to say is if there was somewhere where single mothers or even the old people could put there old bits like tables or bits on the estate then it would help i dont drive and have no way to move them or not alot of money to get them moved and someone commented about my new telly well i got that bout a month ago on my key i pay 5 pound a week and thats the first ever flat screen i have had after having my old telly for 9 years i know some people that has 3 or 4 in there house and i not the only one that has rubbish in there garden either in states houses if i had a shed i would buy tools to do the garden i did have a lawn mower but it got ruined as i have no shed and no money at the mo to get one seems like i am getting put down when its not only me that has a garden on this island like mine
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1) Do you not have any friends that have a car, I am sure most friends would be happy to help a friend in need.
2) Why should the States pay to take away YOUR rubbish?
3) Nobody forced you to speak to the Press, had you not wanted to appear you should have told them where to go.
4) You already have a subsidy on housing costs as you have a States house, surely this is enough money taken off the tax payer?
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That would be the worse thing to do is to have a collecting place for rubbish the place would be a tip and it would attract rubbish from all over the island .
Fill in the form .you can have up to 5 items for 15 pounds .it will be collected from you.this will get rid of it
I also don’t drive but this is how i get rid of it all
save up for it
As for a shed when those homes where built they had a shed included in the house as you walk into the back door .has this changed now?
It would not take up much room to have a mower as they do pack up.others manage to have them and they don’t have another shed .Perhaps the neighbour who complained would lend you his mower?
I also agree there are many more who have a garden like a tip.this man is picking on you.
It is not only single mums and old folks who have problem getting rid of rubbish many of us do.
please use the system properly.it is there to help you .at a small cost as well
The cardboard can be recycled .get the children to rip it into a smaller piece and put into a bag and walk down the road to the recycle at the Salerie .
Try your best Claire .
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You’re right about the overgrown area by the Aquarium nocon. I was there on Saturday and it’s a total disgrace. Perhaps the SPP constables should do something useful and put pressure on Environment to sort it out.
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Ms Ellis, it seems to be a question of priorities. You feel you can afford a flatscreen TV which only your family will see, you can’t afford to keep your garden clear which everybody has to see. You managed to get the Box with a TV in to your house but you can’t remove the empty box properly. You’re not really trying very hard are you? As for not having any money, don’t buy expensive consumer goods then. If your old TV stopped working (which I doubt) there are many people giving away working televisions free of charge on ecycle and elsewhere. I recently gave away a perfectly good TV which was 12 years old but worked fine. I replaced it with a flat screen TV with money I have earned and saved. I would not dream of buying one on credit and then dumping the box outside for the neighbours (or burglars) to see, that would be just plain irresponsible and un-neighbourly.
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Ignorant, lazy woman – do it yourself like everyone else has to; The States don’t owe you a gardener. Absolutely ludicrous, but then again I’m all too familiar with this attitude amongst certain people in Guernsey (and indeed, the world).
LOL – ‘I do work on it, but it just grows back.’
That’s how plants work m’dear. 
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Claire, did you know that punctuation is free and makes you look clever?
I bet you could get a shed from BQ for 5 a month on credit. Or maybe your neighbour would let you use his tools. Try asking him.
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Martino..re Aquarium..this piece is being looked at.
Yes I know it has been like this for years but we are talking bout environment in Guernsey
they need to make safe the rock face and will not cut this bit of grass so as not to encourage people to sit there as it could be dangerous .
[this is what I was told ]
but if it is growing wild it can be classed as a conversation area and will attract the bees and butterfly’s
Perhaps the Guernsey press might like to investigate this as a story ,as it would make better headline than this girl who has rubbish and weeds in her garden .That a neighbour has a problem with.
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At the risk of getting a telling off here, could I suggest that Mr Ogier perhaps gave her some small amount of help in lending her some equipment so that she could do it herself, and maybe showing her what to do? Result being 2 tidy gardens, happy and helpful neighbours and no need for the press to bore us with this drivel
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I think that Ms Ellis’s neighbour’s “outrage” is a bit rich, bearing in mind some of the things he has done in the past, which are far, far worse than having an untidy garden!!
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Have you thouight about doing a deal with a neighbour, where they help you with your garden and you help them with some interior painting or cook them a meal?
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The states need to do more to help!
My husband is working two jobs and I am working part time to pay the mortgage and look after 3 children. We struggle to keep our garden tidy as we just don’t have the time. Why should we be working all these hours to pay for the states to clean her garden! This Island is becoming a joke.
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Maybe you could run a little allotment for growing a few veg with the children
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she cant do anything at the min as she is in England would like to know where she got her money from i live in a states house an cant afford to take my children away makes me sick these people who do nothing but can afford to go away on holiday we are lucky to have money at the end of the week
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Can I just say what a load of rubbish. I work everyday and five days a week. When I get home I cook tea and do luches for the next day etc. I have two gardens and in the evenings and weekends I am outside pulling up the weeds and keeping it tidy. The evenings are long why not when the kids are inside or in bed go out and tidy up. There is not need for rubish or black sacks to be dumped in the garden. Can’t you burn some of your rubish or get someone to take it to the tip. Or like others are saying get the kids to do it for extra pocket money. Come on dont moan about it.I
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Well I wish I had a garden that was a decent enough size to do something with! These people don’t realise how much they are GIVEN!
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I too wish I had a garden. I tell you what, if I did have one I would take pride in keeping it tidy even though I work full time and can’t drive.
Claire Ellis – YOU wanted the garden YOU look after it.
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If people that work all hours (like Sarah, myself and a lot of other people on here)can manage to keep their gardens tidy, what is your excuse. Do you really think that it is up to us to pay for that as well. Like Amanda has said, aren’t you given enough already!
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There was a gentleman who lived in a States House at L`Aumone traffic lights who used to regularly win the Gardens in Bloom prize every year because he was proud of his garden.
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Phil
Spot on.
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i happen to know this ldy i got 3 kids (soon anyway) and i struggle with all my other commitments to keep grass cut all the time i do try but sumthimes other stuff takes priority i bet all these negative comments they have sumthing they have ment to do for ages but
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