Dave and his stupid twee little wheelbarrow
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Our neighbour, I shall refer to him from here on as Dave, for that is his name.
Dave has lived next door for about 4 or 5 years. We don’t talk much, he is a bit of a busy body and established himself on the parish council almost before he had unpacked.
If we do talk, he usually has something to whinge about. For a short while it was because somebody told to him that our dogs barked during the day. Then came the passive aggressive offers of “help”.
We have a long hedge which became slightly neglected while our newborn daughter was in SCBU. He offered to trim it for us. A friendly neighbourly gesture, I thought. Except that now, 3 years on, he will take it upon himself to trim the bit of our hedge nearest his driveway if he feels it has got a bit long.
We have a thin strip of land which runs along the edge of his driveway. We don’t use it as it is covered in gravel and only serves as a buffer between his property and ours.
Recently he decided to have his front garden gravelled and he had 3x one ton bags of gravel unloaded onto our land. A bit rude I felt, it would have been polite to ask.
Now he has placed a stupid twee little wooden ornamental wheelbarrow in the middle of this bit of land (Our land). Aside from it being offensively chintzy and tacky, it’s a bit of a nerve to place an ornament on somebody else’s property. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as it could have been his grandkids who put it there.
Anyway, we were away for a week and returned on Saturday to find it still there, long enough for him to have moved it had it been mistakenly put there. I decided to move it myself and I placed it on his driveway. That was that or so I thought as I returned home tonight to find it has returned to its spot in the middle of our land. I’m now debating my next move because a few thoughts spring to mind.
Is he bating me?
If I ignore it, (its just a silly little ornament after all) what will appear next?
How do I bring this up with him without causing a conflict bearing in mind that I am a coward and actively avoid any sort of confrontation.
Should I just keep moving the wheelbarrow back each time it appears?
Should I think about building a fence along our boundary? If so, can I build right up the the boundary (the edge of his driveway) which will leave him with a very narrow drive. Deservedly so in my opinion, it would be funny if he ends up disadvantaging himself but do I leave myself open for a continuing feud.
TLDR: neighbour is a knob and is encroaching on to our property
Dave has lived next door for about 4 or 5 years. We don’t talk much, he is a bit of a busy body and established himself on the parish council almost before he had unpacked.
If we do talk, he usually has something to whinge about. For a short while it was because somebody told to him that our dogs barked during the day. Then came the passive aggressive offers of “help”.
We have a long hedge which became slightly neglected while our newborn daughter was in SCBU. He offered to trim it for us. A friendly neighbourly gesture, I thought. Except that now, 3 years on, he will take it upon himself to trim the bit of our hedge nearest his driveway if he feels it has got a bit long.
We have a thin strip of land which runs along the edge of his driveway. We don’t use it as it is covered in gravel and only serves as a buffer between his property and ours.
Recently he decided to have his front garden gravelled and he had 3x one ton bags of gravel unloaded onto our land. A bit rude I felt, it would have been polite to ask.
Now he has placed a stupid twee little wooden ornamental wheelbarrow in the middle of this bit of land (Our land). Aside from it being offensively chintzy and tacky, it’s a bit of a nerve to place an ornament on somebody else’s property. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as it could have been his grandkids who put it there.
Anyway, we were away for a week and returned on Saturday to find it still there, long enough for him to have moved it had it been mistakenly put there. I decided to move it myself and I placed it on his driveway. That was that or so I thought as I returned home tonight to find it has returned to its spot in the middle of our land. I’m now debating my next move because a few thoughts spring to mind.
Is he bating me?
If I ignore it, (its just a silly little ornament after all) what will appear next?
How do I bring this up with him without causing a conflict bearing in mind that I am a coward and actively avoid any sort of confrontation.
Should I just keep moving the wheelbarrow back each time it appears?
Should I think about building a fence along our boundary? If so, can I build right up the the boundary (the edge of his driveway) which will leave him with a very narrow drive. Deservedly so in my opinion, it would be funny if he ends up disadvantaging himself but do I leave myself open for a continuing feud.
TLDR: neighbour is a knob and is encroaching on to our property
1. [insert bulls
t anecdote that never happened in an embellished scenario similar to OP's]
2. [insert OTT act of war to prove a point that the majority of PH users wouldn't actually do anyway]
3. Just knock on the door and ask what's going on. Remind them gently that this is actually your strip of land. If they choose to go on the warpath, so be it.
t anecdote that never happened in an embellished scenario similar to OP's]2. [insert OTT act of war to prove a point that the majority of PH users wouldn't actually do anyway]
3. Just knock on the door and ask what's going on. Remind them gently that this is actually your strip of land. If they choose to go on the warpath, so be it.
24lemons said:
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