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...is at it again. Not having spoken to me for months, since the Barmouth trip in fact, (when she came round to complain about the bikes parked outside her house, and that somebody had stolen her 'Please Do Not Park Here' sign) she came round today to complain that my wisteria was invading her garage. We had a bit of a barney. I went round to see what the problem was, saw it, came back and grabbed my camera, and also the secateurs (sp?).
Anyway this is what caused all the offence:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_2239.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_2240.jpg
When you think of all the world's problems, this is all she has to complain about.
Anyway I pruned it - it now looks like this on the outside. This will give you an idea of the relative size on the outside as opposed to the inside:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_2241.jpg
A few little sprigs in her eaves and the world stops. We had another barney when I came back, I am afraid to say that I threw the offending sprigs at her.
Some people:rolleyes:
Good on you Ed. I might have thrown the secateurs too..
appollo1
13-06-09, 09:36 PM
well you can see that the offending branch could have caused the wall to collapse!!! :rolleyes:
DarrenSV650S
13-06-09, 09:38 PM
Some people just have nothing better to do with their time. Is she retired by any chance?
My (retired) neighbour hasn't said anything since he phoned the police about the noise of my bike, who then said it was my drive and none of his business what I do on it
the_lone_wolf
13-06-09, 09:39 PM
The dangers of living in "da 'burbs"...
Assaulted with wisteria clippings!
:eek:
She needs to be careful who she ****es off, cops might find her face down in a green recycle bin in with the veggie peelings
;)
thats nothing, the council want us to move our shed because it is visible from the other side of the canal :rolleyes:, never mind all the other houses with sheds beside it.....
Jamiebridges123
13-06-09, 10:03 PM
Good on you Ed. I might have thrown the secateurs too..
Pointy end first.. :smt027
kwak zzr
13-06-09, 10:08 PM
she needs 40 bikes on her driveway mate :)
she needs 40 bikes on her driveway mate :)
A plan must be hatched.
Jamiebridges123
13-06-09, 10:09 PM
A plan must be hatched.
New Friday night meet? :smt021
40 odd V-twins gotta get on someones nerves.. but it wouldn't be ours. :)
she needs 40 bikes on her driveway mate :)
again;)
kwak zzr
13-06-09, 10:13 PM
again;)
yep :smt074
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 10:17 PM
Wanna buy a wasps nest?
lukemillar
13-06-09, 10:19 PM
You know...I think she has a point ;)
shonadoll
13-06-09, 10:20 PM
Small minded self obsessed idiot, she is.
Spiderman
13-06-09, 10:41 PM
Ed, you and your plants disgust me. Invading that poor womans space like that. Its scum like you that have brought this country to the state its in. Ferral youth going about mugging and stabbing are nothing compared to your plants heineious lack of self control.
i hope she sues you :lol:
Thingus
13-06-09, 11:00 PM
Wanna buy a wasps nest?
:o
dont sell the 675 , you need a few more in your garage :). Also you probably need to make a sign that says do not cross here on your drive..
I would have pruned it and flung it at her as I walked past without saying a word.
Good on you Ed. But don't let them get to you. No point letting something so trivial wind you up mate.
Speedy Claire
14-06-09, 09:03 AM
I think she`s in desperate need of a good sorting out of the physical kind (and I don`t mean violent!!!) Any volunteers from here? Ed???
timwilky
14-06-09, 09:50 AM
You need a triffid not a wisteria.
the white rabbit
14-06-09, 09:51 AM
I have a lovely Wisteria on the boundary of my garden and it overhangs next door a bit over the fence and the top of their IMO unsightly outhouse. If it were me I would be happy with that as it is a thing of beauty but the silly old bugger next door has to chop it in a complete straight line along his side of boundary. Done the same with a prostrate pine that comes from my side, been over both fronts for years before he moved in, now cut in a dead straight line along the boundary so I have a nice pine on my side and he has a muddy patch of missing lawn for the last year he seems quite happy with.
Ok, all these are in actuality on my side so he can do what he likes but there is no application of common sense, they are not removing light etc and just softening a boundary, in one case in a very attractive way. Just some need to have everything in a straight line, under absolute control and urbanised I guess.
Except his fence, which he insists belongs to me as it needs a bit of TLC :rolleyes:
We have a huge amount of parking here also and hardly anyone has to park on street, and still get the odd 'your visitors parked outside my house'. Yes, I know, thanks.
timwilky
14-06-09, 10:12 AM
Arn't neighbours wonderful. We had a lovely lady at the back of us who used the fact some of her 6' fence panels had blown out to dump her garden waste in our garden. When she got it sent back she got the solicitors in. We had stolen her land.
Fact my house was built 15 years before hers. Her builders had installed the fence on the boundary when her house was built. We had not maintained the fence. No it is her fence. Her solicitors also wrote to my neighbours asking about the boundary history. I had replied back to her solicitor that I would defend any action she wished to take and it was his duty to advice his client of the costs of such an action. Surveyors arrived. Measured the boundary. Concrete panels replaced the missing wooden ones and she has been quiet for the past 10 years.
Her new neighbour knocked on my door and asked permission to enter my garden whilst he installed a fence. nice chap, but was being hassled about stealing land from his neighbour, the smell of his BBQ was offensive and his children made too much noise, hence his need for the fence.
Why can some people not get a life.
punyXpress
14-06-09, 10:41 AM
Ed: are your pikey ' friends ' back from Appleby yet?
454697819
14-06-09, 11:18 AM
Ed...
I would have removed it with a flame thrower....
I think she`s in desperate need of a good sorting out of the physical kind (and I don`t mean violent!!!) Any volunteers from here? Ed???
are you inplying she needs a good seeing too...:makelurve:
I'm happly married, so my wife keeps telling me...#-o
CoolGirl
14-06-09, 01:11 PM
Small minded self obsessed idiot, she is.
oooh, that's harsh ;)
Ed - sounds like she needs to get a life. But you're more than welcome to inflict my ex-neighbours on her. They were quite good at throwing their rubbish in my garden, letting their dog destroy my plants and pots and poop everywhere, as well as being agressive and threatening when asked politely to be more considerate. I belive they forfeited their deposit and the property has been mysteriously broken into since they left (daft landlord didn't change the locks).
One of my next door neighbours is like yours :toss:
Why yours had to get ar$ey surely that didnt happen over night, all she had to do was mention it nicely.
haha sounds like my street guy few doors down moaned that i start my bike too early in the morning on his days off, dont think he looked too good in front of every one in the street when i said but you start your van at 6am every morning and wait for it to warm up for 10mins before driving off when your at work.
but i just think as you say more to the world than a plant coming into your garden, just tell her to cut it next time
what a pain in the ass she is. god i'd be forever falling out with my neighbours if i complained about their plants invading my garden. on oneside i have a rather nice clematis that grows over the fence into our garden and the other side we have apple and pear trees which are quite useful when they fruit ech year
What really annoyed me was that she said 'you must understand, I'm 86' - as if being 86 justified such intolerance. Fair dos, my wisteria was crawling in through her eaves, but she has a gardener and she could have asked him to snip the plant without causing such a scene. Plus, my mum is 86, 87 in November, and she wouldn't dream of complaining about such a trivial matter. We went round later to keep the peace, and she started off again - the world and its problems are my fault, and I'm being unreasonable in rejecting her complaints about a few plants. I told her that I simply didn't have the time or the energy to supervise the garden 24/7 and a little bit of wisteria was not top of my priority list. Afraid that it all fell on deaf ears:rolleyes:
Thingus
14-06-09, 04:29 PM
Put some conifers right next to her garden on your side, see her face go from displeasure to horror as they grow to 90ft in 5 years ^.^
haha sounds like my street guy few doors down moaned that i start my bike too early in the morning on his days off, dont think he looked too good in front of every one in the street when i said but you start your van at 6am every morning and wait for it to warm up for 10mins before driving off when your at work.
You said too much. I'd have simply responded with "so what?" and walked away or told him to get the feck off my property.
What really annoyed me was that she said 'you must understand, I'm 86' - as if being 86 justified such intolerance.
A nice simple response would have been "It's nothing to get too worried about, you'll be dead soon and something like this will be so trivial compared to that"
I think she`s in desperate need of a good sorting out of the physical kind (and I don`t mean violent!!!) Any volunteers from here? Ed???
She's eighty bloody six, 2 minutes of that manner of physical sorting out and you'd be up on a manslaughter charge - far easier to just cut the plant back a little.
yorkie_chris
15-06-09, 12:00 AM
Or leave it at "so what?" and see if you can make her head fall off with annoyance or something.
BanannaMan
15-06-09, 02:30 AM
Let me send you some Kudzu! ;)
See what she thinks of that.
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/kudzu1.jpg
the white rabbit
15-06-09, 07:25 AM
Let me send you some Kudzu! ;)
See what she thinks of that.
Amazing! :smt103
kwak zzr
15-06-09, 08:13 AM
you'll be dead soon and something like this will be so trivial compared to that"
exactly the same lines on which i was thinking :smt084
TheNinj1
15-06-09, 08:25 AM
Surely an older gentleman bearing a packet of werthers originals could silence her?
No wait, that's stupid.
You need a moat and a minefield. You can get planning permission for that as long as it fits in with the street scene.
joshmac
15-06-09, 08:42 AM
What really annoyed me was that she said 'you must understand, I'm 86' <snip>... Afraid that it all fell on deaf ears:rolleyes:
Ba-dum-tsh!
I'm so glad we don't have such ridiculous neighbours here.
I do like Lozzo's response about her being dead soon though :lol: Brilliant! Probably would've gone down like a lead balloon :p
Drew Carey
15-06-09, 10:33 AM
I’m just glad she didn’t see me lying on her lawn when we all popped over to yours after Barmouth – It might have sparked World War 3!!!!!!!
Owenski
15-06-09, 11:24 AM
why dont people act for them selves, THe boundary hedge between me and my left hand naighbour over hangs, and when it does I cut it back. That takes me 20mins each time this cant have taken you more than 20seconds.
To right for chucking them back at her.
SuzukiNess
15-06-09, 11:54 AM
neighbours... arent they great!! :) ours, who aint the quietest at 4am when coming in from the pub and we've never complained about, TOLD us (no request) to move our bird feeder which is situated pretty centre in our yard, as the birds were pooping on his table...ermm... i think not... needless to say the bird feeder is still there as i love watching them (even had a red squirrel in - pity that didnt poop on his table!! ) the best is his yard looks like a tip yard and he worried about bird poop... :smt075
pffff people
Think the words she was looking for were -
"Please could you cut your plant thing back a bit it's starting to get under the roof of my garage."
Having spent the weekend battling Ivy in places ivy shouldn't be* I can kind of see where she's coming from.
* Brain "Don't hit that chisel at that angle with that large hammer it'll go Pinging off somewhere"
Thump.
Ping.
"OW!"
I would have trimmed it back with a blowlamp...;)
we dont know the ins and outs but sometimes its just depends on how you ask
yorkie_chris
15-06-09, 11:03 PM
If you make even a perfectly reasonable request like an arrogant rse then an equally arrogant/sarcastic/violent/insulting response is perfectly justified!
parkinmj
15-06-09, 11:45 PM
Sounds to me like a typical neighbour.
the perfect replie is always one that matches thier original comment/request in politeness. i.e if thier being complete aseoles then you are back and if there being nice then you are
stuartyboy
16-06-09, 12:12 AM
86...so she's not that fit then?
Bluewolf
16-06-09, 08:26 AM
Sounds to me like a typical neighbour.
My folks have a fairly large oak tree in their back garden, perhaps around 30-40ft tall. Unfortunately one of their neighbours (whose garden backs onto it) took the hump with all the pesky leaves falling into her garden last year and decided to get a tree surgeon in to prune all the overhanging branches. My folks knew she was legally entitled to prune any branches which overhang her property and that wasn't a problem, the oak isn't under a TPO or anything and my folks weren't desperate to cause any friction with their neighbours.
Fair enough? Well, she called a tree surgeon in about two years ago for the same thing and he refused, telling her outright (because he came round and told my folks too) that if he took any more branches off her side it would make the tree unstable and there was a real chance of it falling into the house. So she got her son-in-law to do it instead (he ALSO cut off some branches on my folks side of the tree and cut the wire holding up a little birdhouse http://www.mcnninjas.co.uk/forum/Smileys/mcnninjas_classic/icon_rolleyes.gif http://www.mcnninjas.co.uk/forum/Smileys/mcnninjas_classic/icon_evil.gif) Then they bagged up all the fallen leaves, put them in plastic bags and hurled them over the hedge into the garden. My folks didn't say a word to her about it because they were still trying to keep things civil.
She came round last summer to tell us that the branches were still overhanging (the ones at the very top of the tree, like 40ft up) and that she was going to get them all chopped off because they were dropping leaves and acorns into her garden and making the paths slippery. We politely informed her that the tree would be destabilised and that it might fall into the house if she did... "I don't care..." came the bold reply...
Fortunately my folks got the same tree surgeon round to do the work and he managed to get it done before the old b!tch took matters into her own hands but I still can't get over her attitude :mad:
My folks have a fairly large oak tree in their back garden, perhaps around 30-40ft tall. Unfortunately one of their neighbours (whose garden backs onto it) took the hump with all the pesky leaves falling into her garden last year and decided to get a tree surgeon in to prune all the overhanging branches. My folks knew she was legally entitled to prune any branches which overhang her property and that wasn't a problem, the oak isn't under a TPO or anything and my folks weren't desperate to cause any friction with their neighbours.
Fair enough? Well, she called a tree surgeon in about two years ago for the same thing and he refused, telling her outright (because he came round and told my folks too) that if he took any more branches off her side it would make the tree unstable and there was a real chance of it falling into the house. So she got her son-in-law to do it instead (he ALSO cut off some branches on my folks side of the tree and cut the wire holding up a little birdhouse http://www.mcnninjas.co.uk/forum/Smileys/mcnninjas_classic/icon_rolleyes.gif http://www.mcnninjas.co.uk/forum/Smileys/mcnninjas_classic/icon_evil.gif) Then they bagged up all the fallen leaves, put them in plastic bags and hurled them over the hedge into the garden. My folks didn't say a word to her about it because they were still trying to keep things civil.
She came round last summer to tell us that the branches were still overhanging (the ones at the very top of the tree, like 40ft up) and that she was going to get them all chopped off because they were dropping leaves and acorns into her garden and making the paths slippery. We politely informed her that the tree would be destabilised and that it might fall into the house if she did... "I don't care..." came the bold reply...
Fortunately my folks got the same tree surgeon round to do the work and he managed to get it done before the old b!tch took matters into her own hands but I still can't get over her attitude :mad:
Wouldn't it have been satisfying to fell the tree onto the neighbour's house? :rolleyes:
joshmac
16-06-09, 11:35 AM
Wouldn't it have been satisfying to fell the tree onto the neighbour's house? :rolleyes:
But then she'd probably try and sue for damages, although I don't think she'd get very far seeing as the tree surgeon strongly advised against it! :lol:
Bluewolf
16-06-09, 12:54 PM
But then she'd probably try and sue for damages
Depends on how surgically accurate we could be with a 40ft oak tree... ;) :twisted:
joshmac
16-06-09, 03:17 PM
:smt043 That's one way to get of nuisance neighbours!
Depends on how surgically accurate we could be with a 40ft oak tree... ;) :twisted:
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