I cannot even imagine my reaction , or sheer paroxysm of fury should anyone of my 'neighbours' even dream of damaging my two wonderful long mixed hedges .
I planted these nearly thirty years ago ; they are kept @2.0m high x 1.5m depth ; many , many mixed species , native and exotic . A wonderful haven for wildlife .
Everyone benefits ;they don't encroach onto anyone elses land .
Even they have the sense to CAREFULLY trim to their boundaries , thus avoiding conflict all round .
I don't have to see them , and vice versa !
p2editorial ; it's a shame your neighbour hadn't more common sense !
Sorry about the started post. My sister and her husband had an issue .they moved into their first home thirty years ago and felt very sorry for the old widow next door.The privet hedge ,she didn't like it as nothing would grow in the border. But another culprit was the huge tree in the middle of the boundry. feeling sorry for her my then boyfriend and brother-in-law offered to take up the hedge replacing it with a wooden fence.at no charge to her. Oh yes she was all for this .it took them a good month inbetween going to work. For a while she was grateful, she had a border she could plant up !
It didn't last long, one day she approached my sister.apparently they hadn't got the fence straight near the tree. When it was pointed out that they had done it the best they could over the surface tree roots and they HAD offered to take out the tree or work around it. She didn't want the tree removing. later my sister was approached again but by her daughter :::: do you think you could move the fence over to your side a bit more ? Asked why? My mum says you've taken an inch of her garden !!!!
You can guess the reply. , over the many month's so many people told of how we had stole some of her garden then went on to say can't we give her this land back. Brother in law came home one day to see an a man from an estate agent s eyeing up and measuring the fence itself the width of her garden too ,l he said to brother in law .......there's a few screws loose around here .But your fence is solid enough.!
sister a while later opened the door to the neighbour ,neighbour asks " have you had a bill from an estate office?'' Sister guessed what it was all about but said nothing. Apparently she had the garden measured and had the measurements checked against the papers she had been given when buying the house sixty years ago.and she had also asked them to send us a bill for half the cost .
But was very annoyed .when they didnt, that she was to pay for the work in full. in All this spanned over two years.
This was a lesson learned.don't stand the cost of anything and don't feel sorry for your neighbour. After that we were all agreed ....no more Mr nice guy and keep yourself to yourself.!!!!!!
I'll bet that left a bitter taste in your mouth !......like I always maintain , and like you say :- "keep yourself to yourself" .
Used to get on with all our so-called neighbours , but when you find out they've been calling you blind behind your back it is very annoying . I'm one of the few on our road who actually works for a living ; most of them form a tight knit 'community' of scroungers relying on state handouts at taxpayers expense .
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My sister and her husband had an issue .they moved into their first home thirty years ago and felt very sorry for the old widow next door.The privet hedge ,she didn't like it as nothing would grow in the border. But another culprit was the huge tree in the middle of the boundry. feeling sorry for her my then boyfriend and brother-in-law offered to take up the hedge replacing it with a wooden fence.at no charge to her.
Oh yes she was all for this .it took them a good month inbetween going to work.
For a while she was grateful, she had a border she could plant up !
It didn't last long, one day she approached my sister.apparently they hadn't got the fence straight near the tree. When it was pointed out that they had done it the best they could over the surface tree roots and they HAD offered to take out the tree or work around it. She didn't want the tree removing.
later my sister was approached again but by her daughter :::: do you think you could move the fence over to your side a bit more ?
Asked why?
My mum says you've taken an inch of her garden !!!!
You can guess the reply. , over the many month's so many people told of how we had stole some of her garden then went on to say can't we give her this land back.
Brother in law came home one day to see an a man from an estate agent s eyeing up and measuring the fence itself the width of her garden too ,l he said to brother in law .......there's a few screws loose around here .But your fence is solid enough.!
sister a while later opened the door to the neighbour ,neighbour asks " have you had a bill from an estate office?''
Sister guessed what it was all about but said nothing. Apparently she had the garden measured and had the measurements checked against the papers she had been given when buying the house sixty years ago.and she had also asked them to send us a bill for half the cost .
But was very annoyed .when they didnt, that she was to pay for the work in full.
in All this spanned over two years.
This was a lesson learned.don't stand the cost of anything and don't feel sorry for your neighbour.
After that we were all agreed ....no more Mr nice guy and keep yourself to yourself.!!!!!!