Back to Basics...a good old rant about Haven Cove!
December 10th 2009 13:47
I have to admit to being a tiny bit jealous with Elin Woods. If only life was that simple. If you have a problem or a frustration, just pick up your golf club and start swinging. However I exist by a different moral code. I tend not to take the violent path. I take it out on my keyboard. Blogging purges me. If my mind was akin to an entire digestive system, the process of blogging would be its colon. And a good friend once said, "Every (organisation) needs a good colon", in order to expell its waste. This blog enables me to be "Clean Green Neen". Satirising the stupidity around me is an essential part of my character, and aids in maintaining mental health. Mr Bennett was right: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in turn."
So here beginneth the Haven Cove rant for today:
I hate bore water!
More specifically, I hate the bore water that eminates from my neighbours hose. It makes "the Cove" smell like Rotorua. This smell turns my stomach, which was hell when I was pregnant four years ago, as it is now, after a day back on the dairy, and makes summer here quite a challenge. Our air conditioning is not working at the moment, so we tend to rely on nature's A/C; an open window, to allow breeze to expell the hot air from our home. However this comes to an abrupt halt when the neighbours put on the sprinkler, for hours, to water their lawn.
This lawn, which has been mowed twice in 6 days during this past week, gets bore water for hours each day in a desperate attempt at staying green. It is losing the battle. I say give up! Surely less water = less growth = less mowing, but these people are obsessive about their facade. They also wash their cars frequently (and of course, this is never done on the lawn. That would damage it. Even the postman has copped a serve about riding his motorbike over their nature strip!), and I hate to think of what the surfectants in the waste water is doing to our river system as it washes down the drain.
I resent the fact that our neighbours' vain attempts at green keeping hinder not only my lifestyle and freedom, but reduce my ability to shrink my footprint. They could use rainwater, but I'm not sure they have a tank. That would cost them personally. So instead, the bore makes it seem like a giant has farted right over my house. And despite shutting windows and doors, the smell still permeates the house. Thus my own attempts at maintaining house and garden are hindered, as I can't bear the strength of the odour outside, and I feel too nauseated to tidy up.
Here endeth today's colon cleansing.
I hate bore water!
More specifically, I hate the bore water that eminates from my neighbours hose. It makes "the Cove" smell like Rotorua. This smell turns my stomach, which was hell when I was pregnant four years ago, as it is now, after a day back on the dairy, and makes summer here quite a challenge. Our air conditioning is not working at the moment, so we tend to rely on nature's A/C; an open window, to allow breeze to expell the hot air from our home. However this comes to an abrupt halt when the neighbours put on the sprinkler, for hours, to water their lawn.
This lawn, which has been mowed twice in 6 days during this past week, gets bore water for hours each day in a desperate attempt at staying green. It is losing the battle. I say give up! Surely less water = less growth = less mowing, but these people are obsessive about their facade. They also wash their cars frequently (and of course, this is never done on the lawn. That would damage it. Even the postman has copped a serve about riding his motorbike over their nature strip!), and I hate to think of what the surfectants in the waste water is doing to our river system as it washes down the drain.
Here endeth today's colon cleansing.
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