If you've been following so far, in a case of the straw that broke the camel's back my neighbour finally pushed me over the edge when she rang to complain that I'd removed a 'screening plant' from our side of the boundary without telling her.
If you look in the above picture to the far left you will see a strappy-leafed ginger plant. Ignore the lilly pillies - they are still there.
We removed the ginger plant to make way for the camellias we need to transplant. The neighbour rang to complain. I used my most fierce growl.at.the.children.voice to make her go away.
My latest thought is to get that lovely blue shadecloth that builders wrap around building sites and spread it the entire length of our boundary in a 6ft high fence. I'm mature like that.
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She has her own side of the fence for planting screening plants, doesn't she???
I too am very mature like that and asked Mr Brown this very day if we could hire a HUGE truck with a full-length billboard to park in front of our horrid neighbours to spoil his view & sunshine.
DO it :)
So, you get an old sheet, hang it between the trees, make the place look like a third world refugee camp, and see what she says...go on, I dare ya!
Shade cloth fence?
How 'bout 'lectric fence?
I love how you talk to me as if I know the what a lilly pilly or ginger tree is. Me, I'm going ignore the what? Which one's the ginger...?
Camellias I knew though, I hope they take.
Keep growling at your neighbour in your scary voice. I've been amazed how effective standing up to the bullies was at my end, I wouldn't be surprised if she starts to pick her battles where you're concerned now.
Oh, the cow. Am totally with Peppermint Patcher.
hee hee hee I'd love to see that - the blue I mean ... or the fluro orange that council uses on road works ... or can you borrow some really yappy dogs for ten days and wedge them into that side of the yard ... or get friends with a camper van to come camp there for a week or four .... should I go on ... le
I had lost you when I rejigged my blog but I've found you again.
Have to confess that I'm a bit glad that I'm not the only with a psychotic neighbour, yours sounds like our neighbour's twin sister. She puts her cars on the road, not in her brand new carport, so that we can't park outside her house. We will probably have to move when the kids leave high school in 2 years because of her. My husband loves to wind her up - I'm a bit scared she will poison the dog or something in retaliation.
I agree with what everyone here has said! Twice over. What a witch!!
Start playing loud music too, just for good measure.
Please put up the blue shadecoth fence...I'd love to see what happens then.
LOL, you need to add a LOT of windchimes to that side garden and I have several loud children I can lend you anytime you need them :-)
An alternative to the blue shade cloth is to have the plastic (there is absolutely no cloth in it) sprayed with a logo. We pay marketing wankers (pardon the French but it is the most accurate description) a fortune to design something to make our development sites prettier. You could have a competition even to find a good one. My early suggestion would be a Wizard of Oz theme with warnings to beware of the wicked and very ugly witch of the east (or whatever direction her property is in). Otherwise if you want the name of the bikies' building company (they are actually Sydney based) let me know. I believe they don't get investigated by Worksafe at all as a rule. Completely clean safety record apparently.
Dear M
Shade cloth ...go for it ...and combine it with loud Greek Buzouki music with a dance party. It will give the builders some light relief. I have lit my candili for you..it sounds like you need it plus we will do an interstate prayer/exorcism/meditation session for your bulding!
...With regard to the Greek dance party perhaps you could invite her to join the fun!
Blue shadecloth is particularly fetching when paired with lots of that bright orange plastic webbing you can get these days.
My god your neighbour is a bitch. There is no other word for her but that. And yes, I like the idea of 6ft blue sheeting.
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