Someone in the comments suggested a ‘volunteer day’. Pixi replied to say she can’t do that because she is still in ‘lockdown mode’ and can’t have people traipsing through the house as they haven’t got a back gate.
more likely that no-one local would volunteer…plus if they did she has to keep up the grift in person which is too difficult. She also doesn’t want local news giving her attention currently, as they may start asking about the ‘foundation’ money and why the previous garden makeover wasn’t appreciated enough to maintain some very basic upkeep.
I know the address, which I won’t post here for safety reasons. Between the garage and the house at the front there is another door, it looks like their has been build across but in the adjoining semi they have left theirs as built…it’s a door which leads to an open path to the garden between the garage and the house (so people from the street can’t walk through presumably). A bit of an off design, because normally the garage would adjoin the house and then there would be a gap on the other side for a path. Anyway…they haven’t got rid of that second ‘front door’…so I suspect there is a way through to the back without necessarily walking through the main house.
I measured the garden, it’s apx 30m long, by 10m wide. My own garden is 2/3 of that size…and as a single woman I manage to keep it presentable, and mine has flower beds etc which need a bit of work. Their best bet would be to just completely clear the garden and then invest in a decent lawn mover to maintain it to a basic standard. These people clearly aren’t capable of looking after anything, that would he complex enough for them.
Blaming Kori’s health is a red herring with them. I can see from the tat they intentionally put out the front of the house, fairy lights, stickers, an old car with faded paintwork whose wheel has sunken into the gravel that clearly hasn’t been driven for years. Looking at the aerial view…you can really see the obvious difference between their gardens and the neighbours. You can tell this house contains lazy, stupid people, with no sense of style and a love of cheap plastic tat just from a quick look at google maps.
I know someone, not a grifter, but a lazy person, whose housekeeping skills resemble Pixi’s. Every excuse possible going on for 10 years as to why the house isn’t getting sorted out. The type of person who loves recycling, but can’t be bothered to transport the discarded plastic/cardboard from the kitchen outside to the dustbin. The type of person who blames their mental health, children, partner for the mess in the house and yet does no housework themselves. The type of person who tosses their shoes off in the middle of the hallway. Yet…come halloween and xmas…they have plenty of energy for adorning their hovel with cheap plastic tat, and no energy for taking it down again so it stays out half the year.
This is someone I feel is quite like Pixi in some respects. Pixi and her husband aren’t able to take responsibility for the face that between 2 adults (possibly 3 as the adult daughter now at uni must be home some of the time) they are incapable of the basics of keeping a garden tidy. What’s happened there after the garden makeover isn’t just someone getting behind with the work…it’s people doing no work at all for YEARS, and it’s clear that they didn’t see it as a priority for Kori to be able to use the garden, otherwise they would have been doing the bare minimum to keep it useable for him.
What have they been doing for the last 10months for this ‘memorial garden’? They haven’t even been taking carloads of debris to the tip or getting rid of it in a bonfire. Literally nothing.
What happened to the guy (Wayne???) who was supposed to be doing the clean-up? Maybe he decided it wasn’t worth working for free?
It’s such a grifter move to decided to spend donated money on improving their own property and calling it a ‘memorial garden’. They’ve got £thousands, so could have spruced up a local park and put a plaque up in Kori’s name and given him some local recognition. Something like a sensory play area or sensory garden would be appropriate due to him having autism.