| (This picture is NOT my garden. For some strange reason I cannot transfer pictures from phone to blog.) |
Hedges are the bane of my life and my garden is surrounded by them. Don’t misunderstand me, I love them. Only trouble is I can no longer cut them down to size. The guy who cuts the lawn doesn’t cut hedges and for some time I have searched for a man or men who will cut them to a reasonable size.
I approached quite a few by phone and a lot said they would come round and
see what was needed…. only they didn’t. Nary a one, as the saying goes. What is
it with people these days? They advertise their services and don’t follow up.
How they earn a living is beyond me! I had the same problem with finding the gutter
man, if you remember.
But back to the hedges. I spotted an advert on line and decided to risk
another silent refusal. Instead of using the mobile phone number, I chose the
number that was obviously his home. A
nice lady answered and said she would pass my request onto her husband. That
was yesterday. Today, I got a call. That in itself was progress. The caller was
dead keen to take on the work. He is coming next week to assess what needs to
be done. We fixed a time and date and I noted his mobile number.
Is my excitement normal or should I wait a bit longer before jumping for
joy?
" What is it with people these days? They advertise their services and don’t follow up. "
ReplyDeleteYes Valerie, I know exactly what you mean. People seem to have no "follow though" these days. And not only when it comes to business, but also in saying they will do something for you, but then drop the ball and either forget, or just change their mind without letting you know.
But I am so happy to hear that you found someone reliable to trim your hedges. Yahooooooooo!
Have a lovely weekend, my friend!
X to you and Charlie
P.S. The summer heat has arrived. Tomorrow the weather forecast predicts 100 degrees!!!!
Valerie30 June 2018 at 14:02
DeleteRon, getting workmen gets harder. It seems to be the norm now to say yes and don't bother! I get so angry with it all. I will, of course, add a PS to this post if the situation improves.
Oooh re summer heat: we have been suffering with the heat for a week now; usually you get it first. Even so it was late getting to us, we were in jumpers up until a week ago.
You, too, have an enjoyable weekend. Take care x
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ReplyDeleteI work has a jobbing gardener and will always give free estimates on the same day. Do you have somewhere to compost the hedge cuttings? You should save some money if you dont have them take it to the tip. Good luck Valerie.
ReplyDeleteDave, we have garden waste collections but only enough for one wheelie bin per house. The guy who hopefuly will take the job takes it all away. There is too much here for the average householder to cope with. I will blog if I need answers. I felt quite excited that at last I had found someone to deal with the bushes. Roll on next week.
DeleteYea for you, Valerie, and you should jump for joy not onky at contacting someone to help with the hedges, but to get a return call and a service date. Hope all works out well and that those hedges are soon trimmed.
ReplyDeleteHi Beatrice. It is a big problem that all the houses in my road suffer with. 30 years ago we bought the house because we loved the garden. Little did we realise the problems that come with old age.
DeleteI am happy you found someone and hope it works out. There is an app I downloaded for our neighborhood and several neighborhoods beyond ours. You sign up and people start talking. Many names I recognize in our own neighborhood. It comes in useful when looking for help on work around the house, handymen, plumbers, general stuff. So many recommendations out there now. If people lose their pets they will put that on there too, and many have been found because we all keep an eye out for them. If there is anything like a helicopter flying in the area, people will say what’s up with that, lol! Someone will have an answer. We have a training facility a mile away and they sometimes fly over our neighborhood. Suspicious activity? We hear about that also. Okay, I have waffled on long enough. Wishing you a happy week Valerie :)
ReplyDeleteWow, Denise, thank you for this. What a wonderful idea. I don't think we have anything like it but I will have a look. What would the app be called?
DeleteIt's called Nextdoor but maybe it goes by a different name. Have you thought of maybe forming your own group by asking your neighbors if they would like to do a sort of e-mail round-robin. I don't know if this would be feasible but it would set up a neighborhood watch where not only could you all look out for each other, but you might get some good recommendations on handymen, plumbers and the like. If you collected everyone's e-mail you could put it on a word document or something, and when the time came to send anything out, you could cut and paste them into the subject line. You can tell me if I am totally bonkers!!!! Just a thought and I don't have many of them so we'll just roll with it, lol!.
DeleteLOL, Denise... I think I'm the only one in my area who can go on line, handle email, etc, let alone use a computer. We're all oldies with me in the lead. Otherwise, your idea is sound.
DeleteWhen I want to send pics from my phone for computer use, I send them to myself through facebook messenger or to my email. Each picture should have an option to share and that's where you'll find the options. Then you can go to your computer, get them, download them and put them on your blog.
ReplyDeletekden, yes I send via email. Actually, I got it wrong, the hold up is with Google itself. I save to my pictures file, then can't get them out to put on the blog. This is a very new problem which I hope doesn't last long.
DeleteOh cool I hope he turns up! Shame we don't live closer I would happily of done the job for you for free!
ReplyDeleteJoe, yes, it is a shame you don't live nearer. Oh well, I will just have to grin and bear it - and pay up!
DeleteHi Valerie, thanks for your recent comment on my post about Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine. To answer your question about the town's name, here's what I learned: Legend has it that Ogunquit (pronounced /o-gun-quit/) received its name from the Native American Abenaki tribe and translates to "beautiful place by the sea."
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