I think I have written a blog post with this title before. I'm getting quite fed up of the weather now. For the last three years in a row, my field has flooded once or twice during the winter, this year, thanks to my neighbour narrowing the river downstream of my field by about 2 feet with gabions, just so she could make a seating area that no one uses, my field has been under water more often that it has been above. Yesterday was a particularly bad day for hideous weather and when I went to check the llamas in the afternoon, this was the state of one side of my field. Luckily, the llamas were in the other side as my field is a big field divided down the middle by a fence so I can alternate between sides in the summer. In winter they stay in the side without a flood risk so I don't have to teach them to swim and as such, they were fine, if a bit wet and muddy. It would never occur to them to go and sit in their field shelter out of the rain!! I will now have to mend my field fence again!!
I tried to upload a video but it did't work :-(
How awful, have you talked to your neighbor about what they've done?
ReplyDeleteI actually tried to tell them what would happen when they were building it. I warned them about the previous flooding and pointed out that this would potentially make things worse but they didn't really want to know. This is what happens when townies move to the country and want to make it into a suburb. Sorry, I know that's probably grossly unfair because many, many people who move to the country are amazing but the first thing these people did when whey arrived was chop down every tree that was on their piece of land and they could legitimately get rid of. No consideration for the other people who live in our little hamlet, no consultation and no apologies. The "river seat" that juts out into the river remains unfinished 2 years on and the "planting" they were going to do in the place where they chopped the trees down never materialised! Sorry lol rant over.
DeletePoor llamas, they must weight a ton with that soggy hair after the rain! Remember hand feeding them at White Post Farm, they are very persistent, especially the boss male of the herd!
ReplyDeleteThey do have a nice snug field shelter filled with hay, they just prefer to be outside I guess ..... mad things :-)
DeleteI think I would be reporting to DEFRA the damage caused to your property because of the neighbour's actions; there are strict limits to how much someone can alter a water course and with lots of photos, I think something would be done. If other neighbours are also having problems due to their actions, all the better to get them on side as well. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would imagine you can't just go around altering rivers willy nilly. Good Luck
ReplyDeletewell, I have no idea what a gabion is but this sounds like a lawsuit. I can't even imagine what they were thinking (or not thinking).
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you have such bad neighbors.
Rae