"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" wrote ...
It was following the posting of .........

"" Of course if you have any reason to believe your neighbor will be
uncooperative then it is best to say nothing, creep out in the middle of
a
moonless night with your sprayer filled with defolient and have at it.""


That made me think. How do you get on with your neighbours?

I have always got on fine with mine, so what makes a poster post the
above?

A neighbour like we had once. She was just moving in and I went out onto
the pavement to introduce myself and offer a cup of tea etc when she said
" Oh, you live there, I wanted to talk to you, one of your trees in
overhanging my garden, get it chopped down."
I learned her name later.

When I lived in Staffordshire, I had a sycamore at the end of the garden,
planted years before I moved in, which had encroached on the fence line.
The neighbour at the bottom complained to the council that I had *stolen*
part of his land! [The council rep who visited me fell about laughing, and
said "What does he want you to do, cut a hole in it?"]. As the tree was far
too big for the garden anyway I had it cut down, and replaced with a rowan
and a hawthorn further into my garden.

While my friend was busy felling the tree, the neighbour called the police,
claiming I was removing his property! [The bit of trunk which had crossed
the boundary.]Strangely, the police fell about laughing too, then went off
to have words about wasting police time :-}

--
Kathy
A person who doesn't like cats must have been a mouse in a previous life.