My unreasonable neighbour
 

...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/a1...e/IMG_2239.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/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/a1...e/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:

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Good on you Ed. I might have thrown the secateurs too..

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

well you can see that the offending branch could have caused the wall to collapse!!! :rolleyes:

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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

;)

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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.....

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Pointy end first.. :smt027

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

she needs 40 bikes on her driveway mate :)

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

A plan must be hatched.

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

New Friday night meet? :smt021

40 odd V-twins gotta get on someones nerves.. but it wouldn't be ours. :)

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

again;)

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yep :smt074

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Wanna buy a wasps nest?

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You know...I think she has a point ;)

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Small minded self obsessed idiot, she is.

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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:

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

:o

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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..

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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.

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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???

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

You need a triffid not a wisteria.

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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.

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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.

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Ed: are your pikey ' friends ' back from Appleby yet?

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Ed...

I would have removed it with a flame thrower....

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

are you inplying she needs a good seeing too...:makelurve:

I'm happly married, so my wife keeps telling me...#-o

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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).

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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.

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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

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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

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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:

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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 ^.^

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

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.

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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"

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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.

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Or leave it at "so what?" and see if you can make her head fall off with annoyance or something.

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Let me send you some Kudzu! ;)
See what she thinks of that.

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/kudzu1.jpg

Re: My unreasonable neighbour
 

Amazing! :smt103

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exactly the same lines on which i was thinking :smt084

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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.