On Mar 19, 2:40*pm, Paul C wrote:
Hi, I wonder if any one can offer guidance on a problem that I have with
a neighbour. A number of years ago we bought our house of a lady who
moved into the cottage next door. What we hadn't appreciated was that
she would (in our opinion) struggle to watch someone else do things
differently in her former property. We have a shared boundary and in the
past few years have experienced any number of issues with her apparent
disregard for that boundary.
On one part of the boundary fence we have a very well established
ceanothus which does not extend over fence into her garden but has grown
to about 18ins above the height of the fence. It also extends about 3 or
4 feet back into our garden. A couple of days ago I discovered that our
neighbour had used a power tool with a long handled extension to lean
over into our garden and cut away the shrub so that no part of it is
above the line of the fence. When I challenged her about it she said it
had been annoying her, when I pointed out that she had no right to do
that and *would she please stop interfering with us and our garden she
simply said " what are you going to do about it" and "get a life".
Bearing in mind that this lady has a laurel hedge on the same boundary
fence that is at least 3 feet above the fence line and we have
absolutely no issue with it, we are struggling to understand why she
feels the need to do these things, but more importantly we just want her
to stop. *It is only a hedge, and we don't want to " lose the plot" but
this is just one of a series of incidents and is beginning to get us
down. We have no interest in " tit for tat" activities but we do need to
do something to make this stop.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Paul

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Paul C

Get a life. Relax. Don't worry about such trivia.
Even if you do send a solicitor's letter, she'll probably have
forgotten about it in a couple of weeks if she's as barmy as you say.

FFS, it's only a few twigs!
I let my nieghbours do what they like to my extensive hedges, it saves
me the work, I ecourage them. Be cunning. Ask her to do some more,
she'll soon get fed up.
You need some training in man/old fart management.

Just record the incident in case she goes completely bonkers.

What will you do if she ignores/forgets about any letter? Get her put
in jail? You'll look really good in the local rag.

Remember, you may well end up the same yourself one day.
Ignore the drivel posted above. Live and let live.
F. solicitors, they can starve for me.