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This sounds about right to be honest. It's not as though he's using the land either. If I did manage to reclaim the land then I shall be posting up some HOT SHERPA SLIDEY DOOR ACTION as there is our old van sat there that's been idle for 30 years.

This is England & Wales, right? Run a land registry search. Also Google "Adverse Possession" for info on how he might have (or be trying to) acquire the land on the sly. But I don't get how your father could receive rent if council land at the time. But how many years since he received rent? Could be very important.
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Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

I agree up until the police bit.......

 

Tell tale twit springs to mind :)

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This is England & Wales, right? Run a land registry search. Also Google "Adverse Possession" for info on how he might have (or be trying to) acquire the land on the sly. But I don't get how your father could receive rent if council land at the time. But how many years since he received rent? Could be very important.

 

Land Registry will be my next port of call, for £3 I can find out exactly who owns what.

 

I don't think dad received the rent, he never mentioned anything about being paid rent. It was a case of neighbour asking if he could tend to the land whilst my dad got better and my dad agreed and it was OK'd with the council.

 

Both houses were council-owned at the time and they bought theirs later on.

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OK. Was because of this bit:

 

....so neighbour pipes up and asks if he can rent the land off dad, to which he says yes and it's all cleared by the Council etc.

 

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Yes it's all very confusing as dad's memory isn't the best anyway and this all happened well over 20 years ago now. I will try to get some better answers when I go to the council, they should be able to set things a bit more straighter for me!

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It seems it's almost unthinkable that a bloke doesn't like boxing. I have no idea who's fighting, I care even less who wins, but some people I know can't get their heads round that.

I think it's Buster Merryfield fighting some foreign bloke, a big square head with Terry Wogan hairdo.

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I think it's the truly obscene amounts of money and amount of unpleasant people involved that puts me off. Always found it odd that people are very quick to condemn footballers for their wages and any misdemeanours, yet boxing gets a free pass.

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Narrow brick lined bridge on a country lane with a sharp left hand bend as bridge ends. Twat in a silver corsa comes steaming round the blind bend in middle of road, clips my drivers door mirror and I instinctively swerve Hitting the wall. Bumper,wing and front and rear doors scuffed or scratched and dented. By time I'd spun car round to go after him I didn't know what way he went at the junction. Not fucking happy.

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Fucking Firefox. Unstable heap of turd nowadays, it has just crashed for the umpteen billionth time because I dared to have about 15 tabs open (that I can't remember the web addresses for). Using "Restore previous session" restored pages from at least a week ago.

 

Mozilla will be happy with it though, there's a dozen new useless features to bloat it up that no one will ever use like "Hello", and an interface ripped straight from Chrome, so it's all good.

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The bloody French.

 

Couldn't decide, last night, if an A frame was legal on their damn trains.

 

Despite clear proof that it had happened several times prev.

 

Despite the cost of driving both on, separately, is the same as trailering it..

 

Despite them being unable to fault the ' construction', 'utilisation', despite jumping on it several times..

 

"It's the rules" is all they would say.

 

Until I spoke French.

Then the rules changed, within seconds, as they realised I understood everything that had all been saying....

 

It was now OK to proceed.

 

Two hours of my life wasted. I feel a strongly worded letter coming on.

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They love a good pointless rule the French. I went in a swimming pool, there was a sign up with a pair of shorts with a red line through it. I couldn't understand why shorts would be banned so i put mine on and got on with it. Sure enough I got hooked out the pool. 'why are shorts banned then?' I asked the staff. 'Dunno'

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^Thats because people wear shorts all day getting them dirty, then jump into the clean* pool with them on.

At least thats what they said at the pool our restaurant was next to every time they turned away someone in shorts, which was pretty much every ten minutes.

They also just so happened to have a vending machine that sold Speedos at about five times the price of a shop.

 

The French? Making up arbitrary rules, overzealously enforcing them and profiteering? Surely not?

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On the plus side, the kitchen windows faced the bottom of the water flumes, which appeared to have been designed specifically so that the spray whips bikini tops up around the wearers neck.

 

So many titties.

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was going to a show at ripon race course this morning, hence having the jaguar at home today.

 

get up stick head through the curtains, and its grey, raining and blowing a friggin' gale, so went back to bed.....

 

on the plus side that bit of beef that we were going to cook on monday, is getting done for todays dinner instead.

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Sports commentators who can't seem to grasp the difference between "double World champion" and "twice World champion". Insignificant, but really annoys.

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Sports commentators who can't seem to grasp the difference between "double World champion" and "twice World champion". Insignificant, but really annoys.

 

Not sure I know. Double is consecutive?

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Idiot sister's BT hub has gone and died. BT says unlucky, unless you take out a new contract. It's somehow become my problem to acquire a replacement on a Sunday. For bonus difficulty points the roads are closed for the next 3 hours despite tour de shit having already gone past.

 

Quite why idiot can't phone BT again, say "I want a new hub now for free", and when they say no say "No problem, cancel the broadband I'm going to sky" I don't know. Idiot must think that no means no, when fine I'll cancel it means yes.

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I would have idiot sister to bollocks a long time back matey

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Quite why idiot can't phone BT again, say "I want a new hub now for free", and when they say no say "No problem, cancel the broadband I'm going to sky" I don't know. Idiot must think that no means no, when fine I'll cancel it means yes.

 

This!

 

These big fuckin bum rapey firms like Sky and BT go on the proviso that 95% of the great unwashed are all stupid and will do whatever they say. She needs to tell em to cancel the lot asap! Its not like there aren't a few other broadband firms about in this year 2015 !!

 

Had all this with Sky a few years ago when the sky box packed up -

 

SKY; You will need to buy a new box, £150

Me; No fuck off just cancel it

SKY; Ok it will be £90

Me; No fuck off just cancel it

SKY; We can come and repair your current box for £45

Me; No fuck off just cancel it

SKY; Ok, we can send an engineer and sort your box out for £30

Me; No fuck off just cancel it

SKY; send an engineer for £15?

Me; NOOOOOOO, just cancel it, Please! FFS

 

Had a begging letter almost every week to return to sky over the last few years, plus some phone calls which result in me making fart noises.

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Was just bringing one of my Seats over, Pompei

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They love a good pointless rule the French. I went in a swimming pool, there was a sign up with a pair of shorts with a red line through it. I couldn't understand why shorts would be banned so i put mine on and got on with it. Sure enough I got hooked out the pool. 'why are shorts banned then?' I asked the staff. 'Dunno'

You should've whipped them off and then dive bombed into the deep end, bollocks flapping about in the wind.

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Bought a new house on unadopted road. We are house right at the end. Just before us is what looks like a turning space. Everyone keeps parking there making getting into our house challenging

 

Looking at our land registry stuff we own that land. Not sure what we can do without pissing neighbours off...But is prime car storage land.

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Store some cars on it then!

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Might just park the minibus on there...

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Fucking Firefox. Unstable heap of turd nowadays, it has just crashed for the umpteen billionth time because I dared to have about 15 tabs open (that I can't remember the web addresses for). Using "Restore previous session" restored pages from at least a week ago.

 

Mozilla will be happy with it though, there's a dozen new useless features to bloat it up that no one will ever use like "Hello", and an interface ripped straight from Chrome, so it's all good.

No problems with it on three different computers/2 operating systems.

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Works fine on my desktop, laptop and phone as well

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Bought a new house on unadopted road. We are house right at the end. Just before us is what looks like a turning space. Everyone keeps parking there making getting into our house challenging

 

Looking at our land registry stuff we own that land. Not sure what we can do without pissing neighbours off...But is prime car storage land.

if  you own the land you can "police" the parking and clamp offenders iirc

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