Lurch wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:22:31 GMT, "Lobster"
strung together this:

ISTR a TV programme a year a so back where the camera followed a
hapless council employee up and down the street as she endeavoured
to persuade all the residents to agree to clubbing together to pay
for drain or sewer repairs in a similar situation... maybe worth
pursuing that route? Perhaps it only works if ABCD and E won't play
ball with you, I don't know.

I remember that one. She was only doing it because no-one else on the
street could be bothered and ISTR that everyone thought it was her
fault that the drains were blocked and that the council were trying to
extort more money from them before they fixed it.
Obviously depends how freindly your neighbours are.

After shelling out to the council to have the drains unblocked, I went round
all the neighbours with an assistant - next door neighbour's daughter, who
can be extemely persuasive - she even frightens me :-) They all contributed
without a murmur.

Terry D.