There are two strangers sat in my garden eating their dinner

[Scrowy]

I've told them it's private property and not part of the footpath that passes next to it. Apparently they will be on their way soon.

I've now chickened out of saying anything else but I'm passive aggressively watering the hanging baskets about 5m away from them and they are very deliberately not making eye contact with me.

I've told this before on here. Our house has a huge natural pond in the front garden.

The previous owners of our house found a man fishing the garden pond one day. He was apparently most disgruntled to be asked to leave.

The house across the road is now run solely as an air bnb. Every weekend we get half a dozen people hanging over the front fence and very often wandering up the drive. Kids trying to climb into the garden etc.
I have asked the owner to please remind his guests that we have to live here, but still they come. Several friends have offered to go stand on his lawn one afternoon and stare in, see if he likes it.

We also get local workmen coming to eat their lunch and admire the view.

Happily found 25 hedging laurel plants reduced to a quid each in our local garden center the other week so hopefully that will eventually solve the problem.

@Scrowy

Diagram

Why not put a fence up or a border of flowers, that should make it really obvious

@JudgeJ - you’ll find the thread in Classics (sorry, I’m useless at linking). It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title here.

Did you miss the fucking wall @HalzTangz or are you being sarky?

@HalzTangz - there’s a wall by the looks of it. But even if there isn’t a wall, the fact that the owner has told them they’re on private land should kind of do the trick!

I’m amazed by the amount of people on here who seem to think more “effort” needs to be made. Surely, if an owner tells you that you’re eating your dinner in their garden/on their land, then the polite thing to do is apologise and move on? Not be thinking they need to put up more fences/walls/signs/buy goats or bulls etc etc etc.

I’d be very happy if a number of posters who think this way could post their addresses. As it would be really handy to have a list of friendly pit-stops round the country.

@Bluntness100

Are either of them an elderly Korean lady?

What is the "elderly Korean lady" reference in here? I keep seeing it crop up on threads?

Please don't make me regret asking. 😂😂

@GertietheGherkin - I’m useless at linking, but just type “Korean lady” into the MN search bar and it’s the first option that comes up.

If it happens regularly then set up a sprinkler which is ready to turn on immediately when someone is on your garden!

Grab the sprinkler and water the lawn. What a bloody cheek they have.

I would let my dogs out and they would soon move it.

As others suggest get a sign announcing private property/ stay off the grass & sprinklers u can turn on remotely next time you see trespassers sit

This happened to me. They actually started pitching their tents. I'll never forget how dismissive and rude the man was when I told him it was my garden.

Same thing, he was like 'yeah yeah, we'll be gone soon' and then he slumped down against my tree and started drinking his Fanta.

Was a very weird moment in my life.

So many people have suggested sprinklers. I don’t know anyone who has one!

@viques

I think you ought to take out a garden chair, or a huge blanket and go and sit next to them, like really close, like this

OP,CF,CF,

Or if you can

CF,OP,CF

Take your phone, put it on loudspeaker , phone friends and CHAT

😂

I think the correct thing to do in this situation is politely request their home address(es) so that you can return the favour by setting up a picnic dinner in their front yards.

Next time put a bikini on and lie beside them for a spot of sunbathing.

You didn't draw the diagram?

I am no longer invested. I thought it was a lovely piece of Sharpie to plain A4.

Humph.

[quote Furries]@GertietheGherkin - I’m useless at linking, but just type “Korean lady” into the MN search bar and it’s the first option that comes up.[/quote]
First one that comes up for me is a thread on Korean skincare

We have a right of way through our land. We bit the bullet this year and have paid just under 9k to fence it all off. Money well spent

Maybe play the birdie song or something similarly annoying on repeat at loud volume through your window the next time you get some unwelcome visitors in your garden?

@Ravenclawsome www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out

@BlankTimes

My friend had a very similar setup, but the footpath ran alongside her fence. People just used to open her gate which was signed as private and had arrows indicating the direction of the footpath which was parallel to but not through the gate. They would walk into her garden and picnic on her lawn.

Her husband asked one group to move and they gave him some lip, so he shouted to her as she was closer to the house 'Can you go and fetch my shotgun?' and the group scarpered.
He didn't have a shotgun.

Brilliant!

very strange. I would be suspicious of them. not normal for people to do that.

My DH suggests a permanently installed sprinkler that can be activated via remote!

Grab a fork and go eat their dinner 😂🤣😂🤣