Cat(h) wrote in message
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Your fen is obviously plonked in the middle of nowhere, if you believe
this is a helpful contribution. Er, it isn't *my* fen. It is the north
Cambridgeshire fens. A flat, sparsely poluated area in East Anglia.

I wouldn't dream of doing any work
which impinges on my neighbour's garden - even just a little - without
at least mentioning it to them as a matter of courtesy. This may well
lead to them declaring that they have a problem with it, and having to
compromise on what was initially intended, but how large a price is
that to pay compared to making an ennemy you have no choice but to live
next door to?
I suppose if I had to live close to a lot of other people with a small
garden I might have to adapt but out here in the Fens, with 'land' not a
'garden', all of us living out here feel the same as I do.
Courtesy may be superfluous for fenwomen, but the rest of us have to
bother lubricating our human relationships.

I feel for you. Luckily, I can more or less please myself and my neighbours
can do the same.