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Current restrictions in Sydney include: Hand-held hosing of lawns and gardens and drip irrigation is allowed only on Wednesdays and Sundays before 10 am and after 4 pm.

My neighbour is watering now; ok it's Wednesday. He and another neighbour water nearly every single night - doing it at midnight makes no bloody difference, you arses, we still hear you.

What's the point of restrictions if people don't stick to them?

(Me, I just don't bother. It rains occasionally. )

is it the neighbour you don't like ?

One is; the other one has been seen chucking buckets of water at Fu but then I can hardly blame her for that.

See, again - she wastes water!

Daff said I can't be a dobber.

why not ? restrictions are there for a reason.

Nooo. I just don't see the need - it rains occasionally and my garden is still very green.

You can be a dobber, restrictions are there for a reason just like Baloo says. If people don't stick to them then they should expect to be caught out. Sorry I don't see the point in taking restricted showers and the like when people water their gardens willy nilly?

Well there it was, almost on the stroke of midnight and another hosepipe came into action.

I have to say, for a supposedly des res neighbourhood we have some arses for neighbours. The pavements are constantly covered in dog crap. Maybe they're too posh to pick up?

dob the bastards in, i say. it's my water too. we've spent $12,000 setting up water tanks, so we flush toilets with rainwater rather than drinking water and don't use drinking water to water our plants. why should tits like that be outside the law.

let them suffer with a lock on their water for a month or so, that'll teach them.

I'd have no problem dobbing someone in for water abuse like your neighbour. Despite the Aussie mantra of never dobbing on a mate, I think exceptions do get made and water is one of them.

I think I have your address, I can call the water board and tell them to hang around your place at midnight if you want.

Only if they're TD&H, please.

Ok just one thing I'm unclear on - how would I know if it's greywater they use?

Weirdo next door is watering his garden right now and I don't think it's Wednesday or Sunday.

edit: typo

Does he have tanks anywhere ?

Easiest way to is to engage in a conversation and ask him where hiw grey water/rain water tanks are because you're thinking of getting some.

Alternative is to walk to the front of his garden, find the mains water tap, turn it off and see if his hose stops working.

Hmmm, this is the one we've never spoken to, who hides when we go outside. I can't see him having tanks - the gardens are not huge - but he does have some weird pipes coming off his gutters. The layout of the houses, I can't see where they go. Our house goes a lot further back than those to either side, as they're two storey.

baloo wrote:Does he have tanks anywhere ?

You think he's got a whole private army in his house or something?

that or he could be a scuba diver

You'd think with all that water up in Queensland, they'd figure a way to move some of it to those parts of Oz that need it?

phuketkaren wrote:You'd think with all that water up in Queensland, they'd figure a way to move some of it to those parts of Oz that need it?

distance... distance...

Kooky wrote:Ok just one thing I'm unclear on - how would I know if it's greywater they use?

Weirdo next door is watering his garden right now and I don't think it's Wednesday or Sunday.

edit: typo

Well if it is grey water that they use nothing will come of it, the inspectors will check it out and all will be fine, if not though they will be er, fined.

It is a very suspect time to be watering a garden...although I used to do that if I couldn't sleep but it was legal back then!

'tis funny - I've been chatting on an Aussie forum with a woman I don't know, who is having problems with a local cat bullying hers. I gave her some advice which included speaking to the neighbour about getting him neutered (he's coming in and spraying all over her house) and she said the neighbour's a bit weird; she caught her in her garden early one morning staking up her rose bush, complete with kids.

It's a forum for Brits all over Oz but where does it turn out she lives? A few streets from me! These Silvertailers are bloody weird.

she was staking up her kids? that is weird...

Cheers M, I need that !

Morrolan wrote:she was staking up her kids? that is weird...