The 'look at what I did today' thread

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:22 pm

Today I had cross words with my neighbour. It's only the second disagreement in 20 years of living next door to each other, so it's a shame.

I went out this afternoon to trim some shrubs by our common border that I'd planted as a sort of hedge, but when I went to them, I found that they'd already been lopped. Mrs had decided that they were too tall. It turned out she'd cut them only an hour before I was going to. Trouble is, they're now 2'6" instead of 4'0". They're fully on our land by the way.

All she had to do was knock on the door ...
... instead, she got a grumpy bugger demanding she leave our plants alone in future.

Post by **paul bristol uk** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:37 am

Lop her down to 2'6" I am not surprised you are grumpy.Ever thought of bricking up her front door one night?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:26 pm

If you do... PLEASE take pics!

BTW, it's ok to chop bits of your neighbours plants if they're overhanging your land (it's legal) but... The plant belongs to you, so she should have given you the cuttings back.

So now you can report her for theft...

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:38 pm

I think the cuttings are for the neighbour to dispose of, unless it is edible fruit, in which case they have to offer them back. If they cut plants on your land, technically it is criminal damage...............

Post by **Donald** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:06 pm

What about fruit that is not yet edible but could be edible?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:04 pm

You mean before its ripened?
Well in that case... What about dead wood that has mushrooms growing on it...

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:17 am

Thanks for the flurry of responses.

Like I said, it's only the 2nd 'thing' in 20 years, so I'll not bother with the brick wall, Paul. Though I will admit to ideas of revenge immediately after discovering what she'd done. The silliest was to sell my house and spread japanese knotweed cuttings in her garden on moving out.

She cut the bits overhanging her plot. Fair enough. But then kept cutting. It was the 'criminal damage' that got me: not because she did it, which saved me the effort, but that she had been so brutal with the job.

There were no fruits involved, apart from a few rose hips. No mushrooms, either. I did once make a joke about a fairy ring, I think.

Post by **Donald** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:47 pm

I meant like chestnuts.

Post by **simonc** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:47 am

Oh alright then, it's not one hundred percent 'look at what I did today', rather, 'look-what-I-did-in-November-but-it's-only-just-come-to-light-today'.
While I was in Singapore yesterday, I picked this up in supermarket while stocking up on pork products, for the high speed smuggling run back home.
What a surprise when I opened it...

I wish I'd have slipped in the word 'Prelude'.
I hear the V&A will be issuing lithographs of this titanic prose later this year. (*cough*)

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:54 am

Lude Generation

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