On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:24:32 +0100, Robert wrote
(in article ):


We returned home today from a couple of days away to find that the
neighbours whose property runs across the bottom of our garden had
kindly tidied up the bottom of our garden.

big snip about vandalism of neighbours

I imagine that we could probably take some sort of action against them
for the 'tidying up' but I think that would be completely OTT and as I
am sure that our displeasure at this occurrence was very evident they
will not repeat their act of 'It took me nearly all day and we thought
that we were being helpful'.


Robert, sorry to return to this a bit late in the day but I don't have much
time to post atm. One thing I would suggest is that you take photographs of
the damage (if you haven't already) - and do it quite openly. If ever you
have problems again, you have evidence. Hedges re-grow, your nettles will
come back, but you have photographs. If you do it openly I think it may
scare your neighbours that you are thinking of some legal action.

We once had an unpleasant neighbour who tried very hard to provoke us by
putting all sorts of things against our boundary fence (he was very
childish). Then he started to build a compost heap right against the fence,
which would of course have eventually rotted the panels. I quite openly
leant over the fence and took photos (I think actually I didn't even have a
film in the camera in those pre-digital days!). The next day he removed it.


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Sally in Shropshire, UK
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk