Hastings woman Shirley Wilson is on a first name basis with several district council employees - but for all the wrong reasons.
She calls the council an average of once a month to tell them about rubbish being dumped outside her house on Irongate Rd and says she's had enough of it.
Mrs Wilson lives on Irongate Rd West, now a cul de sac following the completion of the southern expansion of the Hawke's Bay Expressway in 2011.
Yesterday she woke up and walked outside to find a pile of rubbish containing at least three barbecues, a table, chairs, two children's bikes and hundreds of glass bottles.
"It definitely wasn't there last night because we had guests leave about 10 and they would've seen it. We noticed it about 10.30 this morning. I've been here for 17 years and this is the worst, it's the pits."