BAN the BELL.

This IS the story of Scotland.

Can you help us to stand up to this bully to protect our right to live in a normal rural landscape? Please sign this petition. 

BAN the BELL.
Once apon a time Nick and I live in peace with our two cats, one dog and a handful of chickens. We grew our food in the pollytunnels and walked daily in Angus Garden.

Then the bell starts. What is there to say about a man who converts a barn into a building that looks like a church who lives in London but has his bell rung on the hour in Scotland?

He's our landlord. We don't like his bell. It sounds at 87 decibels in our living room. Yes we've spoken and written to everyone we think could help us. But we aren't rich and can't afford to take this to court. He is though. He's a partner in an international legal firm.

I have wondered if that is how he got this through planning. It's all a bit odd. He didn't get planning permission and hasn't got planning permission, but just did it anyway!

Our home is an old tin prefab. He's meant to have had essential repairs done to our home, but hasn't. We still don't have a filter spring water or safe wiring. But we now have a fire alarm! Yippee. 

Instead, he's demanded us pay twice our monthly rent. And pay rent of the shed Nick built.
And then there's the rest of his behaviour: He doesn't do the dirty work himself but gets is Factor and retainer-factor to do it. Of course: Just a little bit of harassment here and there, just a change in the water, just a bit of dangerous car overtaking a bike on the road. What does that matter?

And has served us an eviction notice on our polytunnel.
The polytunnel had no soil in when we took it over, just sand. We have brought in manure by hand and dug and worked the soil to get our harvest.

He's even by thread of legal action forced Nick to sell his part of a house he inherited from his Mum (Grand Dad Neil built a house for his only daughter) by big boy bulling tactics.

He tried to get us to swap this share of a house for our home. This seems a good idea but we were told that we would have to find our own water supply and make our own sewage pit. And no repairs. At our expense of course. That would make our house just a tin shed. Right?

And told we could only keep one cat (which one do we put down?) one dog and one caged bird (do we kill the others too?). Ånd have a gagging order placed on everyone and anyone who can to stay or visit our home.

So here and hear we are.
He can ring his bell and eat his cake.
Or can he?