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You clearly aren't aware of what a do-gooder is. It's someone who thinks they're doing good, but evidently isn't. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/do-gooder E.g. helping people to illegally migrate here. Let me know if you're still struggling and need any more language...

If he'd engaged with those in charge then there would have been a flurry of Tree Protection Orders and other obstructions thrown in the way of solving the problem. It will look great with a few new trees growing there.

You can only move a flood somewhere - either upstream or downstream. It sounds like there are houses immediately upstream of the bridge, so I'm pretty sure what he did was very good at least for those immediately around the area. Most of the modern world couldn't ever get built if we started...

Yes... but someone buys the house. If they're not a landord then they're a tenant, or would be otherwise. So one less house to rent, but also one less tenant chasing the available houses. Provided that the ex-landlord doesn't burn the place down then that house will revert to being someone's...

It sounds logical on the surface, but your false assumption is that an exiting landlord burns the place down. They don't, they sell it. To someone who needs a house or another landlord. Either way it continues to house one household, exactly as it did when they owned it. There is no loss to...

Wood is nature's bug food. There are armies of creatures ready to turn any fallen tree into compost. A plank or joist is just nature food with the bark removed. Wood is OK for use in deserts, where there's no water, or in sub-zero climate, in either case most lifeforms won't survive. But in...

As I say, he was in the wrong. But he probably had some good intentions - possibly increasing his crop yield, but he also has a history of doing good for the community. He needed a sentence of some sort. But also those in charge should be looking at why people choose to avoid or ignore them...

You've polished the texture off it. It's not anything left deposited on it, you've physically removed the peaks from the textured plastic surface. I have a white worktop I use as a photography background, so I need to keep it clean. I have learnt to never scrub it, a cloth is capable of...

We had a single-skin garage at our last house. No DPC either. That was rubbish, everything in there went rusty, cardboard boxes went soft. I'm sure a modern 9" wall garage will be better than a single-skin, but I like the idea of a cavity to give proper damp-proofing. Three sides will face...

I'm sure they'll make a great job of all the bureaucracy. They'll probably spend more on having meetings about future meetings than the farmer spent on clearing the river in the first place. It's not black and white, right vs wrong. The farmer broke the law. The argument is about the...

I know, just overdoing it! I don't see the harm, hopefully it will be drier inside and give a bit of temperature stability during hot/cold weather. It's in a space between our home and the boundary, I already have about 1m path either side so there's no benefit in making it narrower. It's...

Try a different SE? Hopefully his interpretation will be less weird. My reading of what you've been told is that they don't like DIY jobs as they'll likely get a load of newbie questions so this gives them an excuse to tell you to go away. They're probably busy enough, as most of the building...

Don't know or care, and it's not of public interest. It's just dirt-digging by the establishment. Desperate for their own survival, telling the brainless masses the alternative is the devil.

I'm pretty sure that bats are only recorded as "rare" because so many people who have them keep bloody quiet about it as they fear the consequences. Our ex-next door neighbour had them in their loft. They flew over our garden in the evening. I mentioned it to him once. I saw chinks of light...

Those figures sound like nonsense. I'm sure they were the figures stated, but I can buy hedgerow plants for £1.50 each. I really don't get why a bunch of people sitting nattering in a room costs £100,000s. The legal system needs a boot up its arse, it's a scam against the people.

Part of my design that I'll be submitting to planning shortly. Just a rough draft. It's a generously wide/long single garage. The car shown is a BMW X5, which is a huge lump of a thing... This shows about 1.1m depth from ground level. I've shown the footings as 450mm. Should this be...

It's obvious that he ignored the rules. But I'd suggest that ignoring and breaking some rules is probably necessary in the modern world of over-regulation and incompetent bureaucracy, if you're interested in actually getting things done. He was in the wrong and deserved a day in court. But 12...

I'm now wondering if the camera was sloping? I hadn't considered the possibility that your right leg may be shorter than your left. If so I apologise for my lack of sensitivity.

One of the locals in the DM article states that one of the archways under the bridge was previously completely blocked. So his work has definitely increased the flow under the bridge. They don't like that he doesn't respect them. It sounds like they may have been targeting him. How much into...

I tried both your suggestions, both were as terrible as your levelling.