Neighbours grrrrrrrrrrr

[windy]

***post may contain slight rant***
Okay I'm probably not the most sociable of people...but with a busy life and a chaotic house I spend time outside for peace and quiet. Unfortunately, nobody's told me next door neighbour that . Ive been tolerant and even subtle (putting headphones in to make it appear like I cant hear her) but seriously, I feel like I'm being stalked Nothing is growing fast enough to block her out completely and the old sod keeps trimmin stuff on her side to give herself little areas where she can see through The last straw bein I went up-country a few days ago for the Gardeners World Show in Bham and when I got back she's cut a person sized gap in the previously untouched overgrown bramble hedge right next to where I'm working in the front garden I am now looking to enclose meself with a native hedge or something...preferably spiky. Either that or build sniper-towers If I hear about her flamin Thyroid one more time I'm scared I'll snap and do her a nasty injury with me hoe

Feel better now I've got that off me chest

[Milims]

Why not get her to help you with your mesh on a windy day and then dump her in the shed wearing a mesh straight jacket??!! (Yup I read you other post too! lol)
How about every time she comes out you invite her to come and help you do some work in your garden? With any luck she'll get so sick of you asking her to do stuff she'll leave you alone and you can't be accused of ignoring her!
The alternative is to erect a 6ft fence with an additional 2ft trellace on top and grow rosa rogosa - nice flowers, lovely rose hips to make rose hip syrup from - and lots of thorns!

[windy]

lol I kinda like the mesh idea...as long as it's combined with a gag Although, to be honest....I'm leanin more towards the sniper towers at the moment

[MuddyWitch]

You could pretend to have summat contagious (swine flu?!) & keep coughing into a hanky & sneezing.....

MW

[invisiblepiper]

hee hee you live in HELford! - sorry - sad sense of humour!
Neighbours can be a pain - mine are sulking I think cos my B&B visitors parked in front of their house! (suggestions? - we are on a long busy road - not an estate kind of place - parking is free. If I leave my car elsewhere - someone else kust parks ther so I can't 'reserve' a space.
Neighbours indeed!

[Rosendula]

The miserable woman next door to me doesn't like the elder bushes that are growing directly under the fence. Now she can do what she likes on her side, but I have told her over and over again that it's not a weed, it's elder and that I make cordials, wine and jam from it. Despite that, she would still lean over the fence and lop my side down - always while they were in flower too She didn't even prune them, she just lopped with her blunt shears and left broken leafless branches jutting out everywhere. I knew that my best action was to talk to her politely about it and ask her to stop, but I used to be so angry I knew that if I talked to her at all it would be a string of obscenities so I would avoid her until I calmed down, by which time it didn't seem to matter too much any more. In the end, I got a load of bamboo canes, really tall ones, and stuck them in the ground wherever they would fit around the base of the bush. Then I got a load more and tied them at angles onto the vertical ones, in a criss-cross pattern, ensuring that she couldn't get her shears through. This years crop looks like it's going to be a bumper.

[windy]

Jeez you are soo much more tolerant than I am Rosendula...if she cut my Elder I think I'd disembowel her Luckily Groundhog Day(thats my pet name for her...coz every conversations the same ) likes my plants creepin over to her side (Igor...put the disembowelment kit away )
Bless her...I know she's lonely and I should be more understandin, but I swear she has some sort of alarm wired to me front door. I actually found myself creepin out of my own house today grrrr The sniper towers are ever more appealin

[JulieSherris]

And there was me checking to see if you lived in Middlesbrough next door to my MIL!!

She's just been here visiting, and for christmas, I'd like a bazooka, a ghurka knife, a ball-gag and a few decent hand grenades...... you SO have my sympathy!!

As for neighbours... we don't really have any - but good luck!!

[windy]

No neighbours would be fantastic. We were like that in our last house and after almost 6 years I'm still findin it hard to adjust
Mind you, with 3 spawns,a drumkit,2 guitars, a flute,a teenager(which is a whole noise issue category on its own ) and umpteen deliveries of manure every year I'm sure we're not exactly the best neighbours...but thats not the point! I just want peace and quiet in me little patch of garden...my sanity depends on it

Wonder if Travis Perkins do sniper towers??

[Rosendula]

Too true, Windy. I have two teenagers and a 3-year-old. My eldest loves his guitar and bass and that horrendous growly 'music', we have an electric keyboard in the living room..... No need to go on. Just to say I would hate to live next door to me, yet all I want is privacy and peace in my garden

[Rosendula]

And I never thought to mention how sorry I feel for the nice bloke next door. Not only does he have to put up with son's growly 'music', DD1's pop 'music', me (ahem) 'singing' Kate Bush songs at the top of my voice most of every day and LO playing her toy flute, on the other side of him he has a family with two more teenagers, one of whom is doing music at college! Probably much more tuneful than us, but can you imagine it all at once?

[Gray]

And there was me checking to see if you lived in Middlesbrough next door to my MIL!!

She's just been here visiting, and for christmas, I'd like a bazooka, a ghurka knife, a ball-gag and a few decent hand grenades...... you SO have my sympathy!!

As for neighbours... we don't really have any - but good luck!!

I live there - dont know whether your MIL is my neighbour :-)

My neighbour likes to spray everything with 'roundup' (even through the fence -"thats not comfrey thats a weed" grrrr) an when I object she thinks she insults me by calling me a 'hippy'

I never let on but I rather like being called this ;-)

[JulieSherris]

I live there - dont know whether your MIL is my neighbour :-)

My neighbour likes to spray everything with 'roundup' (even through the fence -"thats not comfrey thats a weed" grrrr) an when I object she thinks she insults me by calling me a 'hippy'

I never let on but I rather like being called this ;-)

Haha.... no, that's NOT my MIL - she wouldn't even know that comfrey is a plant!
She also wouldn't be using Roundup - not because it's a chemical, but because she wouldn't want to be getting her hands dirty..... as I found out last week when I suggested that she too can grow her own food.
'Just get a pot of soil, dip your finger in, plant the seed & voila!' says me...
'Oh, I'd be too afraid to get my hands dirty' says she.....

I took great delight in cleaning the hen house out with no gloves on in front of her, before I went to prepare dinner

[Gray]

I live there - dont know whether your MIL is my neighbour :-)

My neighbour likes to spray everything with 'roundup' (even through the fence -"thats not comfrey thats a weed" grrrr) an when I object she thinks she insults me by calling me a 'hippy'

I never let on but I rather like being called this ;-)

Haha.... no, that's NOT my MIL - she wouldn't even know that comfrey is a plant!
She also wouldn't be using Roundup - not because it's a chemical, but because she wouldn't want to be getting her hands dirty..... as I found out last week when I suggested that she too can grow her own food.
'Just get a pot of soil, dip your finger in, plant the seed & voila!' says me...
'Oh, I'd be too afraid to get my hands dirty' says she.....

I took great delight in cleaning the hen house out with no gloves on in front of her, before I went to prepare dinner

:-) :-)

[prison break fan]

We have got just the same kind of neighbour as you! I also come home from work to find portholes cut in my hedge! He waits till he sees my car leave and out he comes with the shears!. He also rushes out to meet the postman and take in our post so that we have to go and collect it and have a chat!. I know he's lonely and I should be nicer, but I'm not! pbf.