To find this really weird and annoying

Thank you for sharing your beautiful artwork. I was going to give it 10/10, but then you added the naked lady. It now has to be a strong 11/10.

First class diagram OP!

I'm with the large, heavy pot in middle of side access, possibly something spikey like pyrocantha in case they decide to try and move it. It might just be custom and practice but given the fact you are already (understandably) off by their Privet Drive ways, can see why you want it to stop.

I'm just here for diagram updates.

Brava OP. Exceptional work!

PS yes it's odd and annoying

I think it is! I had GP’s that lived in Yorkshire and none of the neighbours used the front door, only the back. In fact I don’t think I ever heard the front door bell ring apart from if it was someone official.

Thanks OP I needed cheering up today, top notch diagram, made even better by naked dancing

I am a Southerner (I lived in the Midlands and abroad for some years but am definitely culturally an English Southerner) and I would find this weird and annoying and a massive invasion of privacy too.

I would congratulate you on your diagram but wouldn't want all this praise to go to your head 😉

My grandma had a weird aversion to her front door like it was reserved for a potential royal visit, and everyone encouraged to use yhe back, so perhaps it is generational but she'd be well over 100 now amd her house layout was odd too - even the front door was more on one side.

Love the toadstools in your garden!

Nothing to add to what everyone else has said, I'm just here for the diagram. Move on...

Put a note on your back door saying “Please go to the front door, this door will not be answered”.

@BeachRide

Yep, big Fuck off gate is needed. We live in a bungalow and it was the first thing we did when we moved in, mainly for security

It's a cultural thing to use the back door. In certain parts of the world the front door is only for debt collectors and undertakers so you would be making people do something they are a bit uncomfortable with by insisting on the front door. you could do it but it's a battle I wouldn't personally go in for (your choice if you do want to though).

I'd not be happy about being told to do weedkiller etc. Terrible stuff and probably harmful to human health as well as plant life, pollinators, soil life etc.

Here's your parcel nosey ndn, in future could you use the front door please?

I had people do this in my old house. Most of them were fine, but a few insisted on coming to the back door. Crucial: don’t open the back door! Not even to tell them to go to the front door. Depending on distance, either open your front door and shout to them at the back to come round to the front, or stand by your unopened back door and shout to them to go round to the front door.

It takes a few goes, but they get the message. You can help train them by leaving a small obstacle on the path to the back door, eg a dustbin, a bike, a broom across the path, etc etc.

I’m with you OP - it’s extremely rude to walk round to the back door when there is a perfectly good front door.

My house only has rear facing doors. One on the side of the house (which the postman, delivery drivers etc use) and the kitchen door at the back where anyone who has been to my house before uses.

My lounge patio doors also face onto the bank garden. I have my office set up close by them and I have had to install a driveway alarm to notify me of people coming down the driveway now as on several occasions (with different people) I’ve had people bypass the 2 normal doors to just stand by my patio doors and stare in at me working on my computer. Not only do I find this rude and it makes me jump out of my skin when I notice them but often it has happened when I’ve been in meetings or I’m looking at sensitive information. Granted they probably wouldn’t have been able to make out anything on the screen but still - that isn’t the point.

Now with the alarm I know they are coming and funnily enough, I haven’t had a single occurrence of people looking at me work since.

Hang a sign in the entryway to the back that reads "Baby napping - please use front door"

PS Superb diagram 10/10

"You know what they say - weeds are just flowers you don't like! Would you mind coming to the front door next time?"

Tbh I'd just do the tits akimbo nuddy dancing and wave at them through the windows. If they're that prim and jobsworthy it'll definitely make them think twice about traipsing round the back. (A older neighbour of mine once appeared unannounced in the back garden with a bucket of veg when I was mooching around in a bikini. He went bright red, put the bucket on the floor without a word and left, staring at his shoes. Never been back 😂)

Failing that, a big notice at the start of the sideway telling them to use the front door.

Congrats on the diagram, btw - top effort.

the only thing that diagram lacks is a little stick person, boobs akimbo, dancing in the back bedroom. otherwise it's a thing of beauty!

Kudos for the diagram! 🏆
If you can't stretch to a side gate to block access to your back door then line up your bins to block access, grow hedging with thorns, put up a sign on the back door saying "private - please the front door". And as a last line of defence - razor wire and boobytraps.

Great idea

Get a couple of second hand (off Facebook) expandable stair gates for the sides. Looks like a bungalow but you might want to keep them for later anyway when baby is moving round.