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I'm off on a day trip to Ojai, California, to the Turtle Conservancy. If they allow pictures and allow them to be posted on the 'net, I'll bring pictures back with me. I put my camera in my purse yesterday so I wouldn't forget to bring it!

https://www.turtleconservancy.org/
I follow them on Instagram. How lucky that you're much closer and can actually visit them! Hope they do allow a few pictures!
 

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Good luck. Would installing a camera in your garden help (if it ever happens again)? Would they take footage as evidence?
Heck, you could even install a cheap fake one for now, which might keep the neighbors away...
Because of privacy laws I would have to be careful not to point it at their property and it would be difficult not too.
I have been using my wildlife camera recently which is placed lower than the fence height so not directly at their garden.
I thought about a sign saying 'area covered by CCTV' even though it's not to see if that makes think twice.
Or maybe just get some junk and put it up in that corner so they can't reach my plants.
Trouble is they'd probably pinch it like they did my smaller board.
 

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If I can get him off my leg, you can have this one.
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Cute baby bear. :)
 

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Because of privacy laws I would have to be careful not to point it at their property and it would be difficult not too.
I have been using my wildlife camera recently which is placed lower than the fence height so not directly at their garden.
I thought about a sign saying 'area covered by CCTV' even though it's not to see if that makes think twice.
Or maybe just get some junk and put it up in that corner so they can't reach my plants.
Trouble is they'd probably pinch it like they did my smaller board.

A neighbour of mine ended up putting his own 6’ fence after years of problems with a neighbour of his. The boundary wasn’t his responsibility, but it was the only way to stop the problems that he had. Which were mild compared to yours.
 

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I'm off on a day trip to Ojai, California, to the Turtle Conservancy. If they allow pictures and allow them to be posted on the 'net, I'll bring pictures back with me. I put my camera in my purse yesterday so I wouldn't forget to bring it!

https://www.turtleconservancy.org/
Have a lovely day, Yvonne.
 

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I was struggling for the right words, but these are them.

And to reinforce the bit about a degree... I have a degree in Computing. My career is Computing; so what? My degree was done on punch cards and has about as much relevance to 2018 IT as a degree in botany. One of the courses I had to do was “History of Computing” which bore striking similarities to the presentation of “History of Magic” in the Harry Potter books.

Getting that qualification is about more than your immediate career plans. Finish your studies if and when you are able. Approach your university about taking some time out if necessary. Queen guitarist Brian May took a 32 year break in the middle of his Astrophysics phd... it can be done!

Most of all care about yourself in the here and now. Looking back is futile. Making extensive plans for the future will only hurt you more. Live for the positive you can find each day and hopefully meds and healing will make progress even if it is more slowly than you would like.

Your setbacks have been more dramatic than mine, but that’s what they are... setbacks. They don’t have to stop you inching forwards.

We all care and we are all here to listen when you need us.

Well said!!!
 

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A neighbour of mine ended up putting his own 6’ fence after years of problems with a neighbour of his. The boundary wasn’t his responsibility, but it was the only way to stop the problems that he had. Which were mild compared to yours.
My neighbours have a partial 6 foot fence - just 2 panels left up after the storm at the beginning of the year. They put it up 12 years ago but the smaller fence stayed because the first husband was threatening not just to tear down my fence but rip up all my shrubs to have his land back! Total nonsense - the small fence marks the existing boundary so no idea what he was on about. I had 2 days of him shouting abuse through a toilet window and the adjoining wall then, but the police would only come if he did do any damage.
Usually the Housing Association (which owns their house due to a mortgage rescue scheme) come to do all repairs and put the fence back up when it falls down. I don't know why they haven't been yet, maybe they can only have so much work done a year - or because she has remarried, maybe they aren't involved anymore.
She makes a big thing about wanting her privacy, but after the police have gone and I remove all the dead remains of the climbing shrub from what's left of my holly tree, it will drastically thin out the vegetation, so she will have lost privacy.
Not nice people!!
 

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A neighbour of mine ended up putting his own 6’ fence after years of problems with a neighbour of his. The boundary wasn’t his responsibility, but it was the only way to stop the problems that he had. Which were mild compared to yours.

How about an electric fence? Is that legal to install? If so, I’d make the warning sign really small and in another part of the garden, and see what happens and how soon... [emoji48][emoji48][emoji48]
 

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