's'ok, we're all as exciting as that sometimes - I've just e-mailed my local council about replacing a 'no ball games' sign on the small green outside my house and confirm which Council dept would be responsible for enforcing it, so I've got some weight behind me when I go and ask the kids to stop kicking the ball into everyone's houses/gardens/cars (AGAIN!)
I should add this is as much for their own good as mine, before I have to go and speak to their parents about the dent they've just put in one of my 2 body restored Preludes and they end up with several hundred pounds worth of bill for putting it right!

OR before one of the kids gets run over when they run blindly into the road to collect the ball and get run over by a bus (I saw this nearly happen yesterday)!
Funnily enough when I spoke to the kids and asked them why they didn't play on the patch of grass outside their houses round the corner, they said they'd been told not play there*
drokking parents these days, no sense of any social responsibility to anyone else at all. No wonder so many kids grow up being complete jobbies nowadays
*I should add, I put this exact thing into my letter of objection to the development that's lead to this, because I could see it was going to happen - my objection letter wasn't mentioned at planning committee...
I should also add that there's a full on park and playing fields open 24/7 just 10 mins up the road, but again, the kids have been told not to play there "because it's too far away".
I have a lot of sympathy with the kids and I know they're not being deliberately irresponsible, but I also know mistakes happen...