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My neighbour (who we constantly have bickering disputes with) has just
knocked on my door and asked when I'm going to do something with the
'eyesore' of a climbing rose on the wall next to her house (on our land,
up our wall, but potentially flopping towards her house, and dropping
petals onto our land which may blow onto her path)

Given I'd just been deadheading it yesterday, this didn't really please
me too much. I'm normally more placating, but this time I just told
her I like it and to **** off. I've pinned it up so it's not flopping
near her window any more, and you can walk under it without it bopping
on the head (over /our/ bit of path, which runs down the front of all
the houses).

Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!
:-(

If it's any consolation I would have responded in the same way. I too, have
bad neighbours on one side. I feel your pain.
I won't bore you all with how they tried to force me to let them build a 2
metre brick wall in front of my side kitchen window in return for letting me
get my car out of my drive because I didn't have a drop kerb.
They only moved in last year and let's just say they weren't asked to the
neighbourhood Jubilee party.

Having bad neighbours is really stressful.