Evening all.
I've had a busy day so only just finding time to pop in.
Went to a place called Sully this morning to meet up with some family and we walked over to Sully Island while the tide was out, and made it back in plenty of time before the tide came back in! (obviously or I wouldn't be here now!)
Then had a delicious lunch with another sister.
The PO contacted me and finally came to the house this evening which was just as well because, while I was out, 6 more branches had been cut off my shrub and left in the lane at the end of my garden.
However, she was very young and when I showed her the damage she started by asking me several times if I was absolutely sure it wasn't an accident - took some convincing - and then proceeded to tell me a story about a neighbour's hedge at the end of her own garden which was 9 feet high so she rang the council and apparently they told her she could cut it and throw the debris onto her neighbours garden so she cut it down to 2 feet!
She didn't seem to know anything about the fact that it's trespass or criminal damage to reach over the boundary and damage plants.
My heart sank!
She then went next door and I heard them in the garden complaining about my little fence which for 12 years has behind there 6 foot fence. Then I could hear a great deal of laughter from inside the house. The PO was in there for ages and didn't come back to tell me what they said. She's just ticked a box to say complaint dealt with.
I heard neighbours out in garden later and they have strung a line down the garden which they say is the boundary (gaining them about a foot of my garden) and he said that as they could cut back to the line of the boundary there was loads they could cut and would take it off with a hedge trimmer. I know my plants are well behind the boundary.
Sorry this is so long I am just letting off steam - I am so fed up with them making my life a misery.
I would hate to leave my family home but I can't think of anther solution.
Wow.....terrible. They always say fences make good neighbors. In this case, I’m not sure.....
- We had a bad neighbor for a few years. Conducting all kinds of illegal activities from his house (running a business, business deliveries to home, storage of commercial goods at residence, etc). After totslly documenting this via photos....we were able to get it in front of County officials who fined a few times. The guy eventually moved. But, it was a struggle for us.
