Net curtains are not a legal requirement!!??

[NetcurtainProblem]

Have had a visit from the person whose house backs onto ours. We have small gardens so it’s very close (new build estate).

She asked me to get net curtains! Apparently it’s a legal requirement for privacy and modesty reasons when houses are so close together ?
That they can see me eating in my kitchen and can see directly into my bedroom.

If I’m getting dressed / changed I shut the actual curtains??

In the morning I do like to open them and have tea / breakfast in bed. I’m not doing naked pilates or anything!
My kitchen table faces out towards the garden but I fail to see how them being able to see me eating is a modesty issue ?

I explained I don’t like nets. Also I can see that they have nets????!!!!!

She told me she will take it further as it could be seen as a nuisance issue ?

I've got it! She's in the pay of Big Net Curtain!

Who will she report you to?? Some people have little to be thinking about!

Get some very bright floodlights and point them at her windows. That will stop her being able to see in.

I think its a joke in that the neighbour will just see herself. Thats the point

Have none of you heard of the Net Curtain (Modesty) Act of 1872?

She has caught her husband with the binoculars

I've been known to open the front door in my dressing gown. To a delivery man, no less!
I also have nets but only in the front windows and only half nets. Very high rooms so still about 5ft of naked window above the net.

the local council, she will enter their offices and complain, ask the person behind the desk to do something about the lack of net curtains.

The person behind the desk will ask her to repeat what is the problem and suggest that they put up net curtains if they don't want a neighbour looking in (as this will be what the person working for the council think they mean) the neighbour will get all shittiy with them as she is being ridiculous and the council person will shake their head and say they can't insist on anyone putting up net curtains

then the neighbour will leave and say to her friend the council are rubbish

the council worker will just note that down on the list of mad hatters they have in with weird requests

op pop a note through your neighbours door that you have reported them for stalking you in your own home

I think I would spend some time and money getting a cardboard cut out of the King and putting it in your windows every day. But moving it around!

I would sit in bed wearing one of these. Obviously you'd need a straw for your tea. You could build up a collection.
https://www.celebrity-cutouts.co.uk/shop/celebrity-mask/royals-celebrity-mask/prince-charles-smile-celebrity-mask/

Should be King Charles but they haven't updated their web site

https://metro.co.uk/2014/12/16/man-phones-police-about-grinning-cut-out-of-sir-cliff-richard-staring-into-his-home-4989730/

Was thinking of this when I posted!

She has. It's in the OP.

I would check your covenant, some weird shit in mine.

Not allowed to dye textiles/materials in the garden, not allowed to keep chickens (no mention of cocks) etc.

Time to go full Nigella.

The OP and the first reply have made my Friday night after a very long week at work. She totally thinks there's a danger you'll tempt her husband away.

Get some chalk pens and write something suitably pithy on your windows.

I have nets that are quite thick and heavily patterned. There is enough material that they hang nicely and you can't see through them unless you go right up to them. I like nets but I'm quite old.
We live in a park home. It's quite private but anyone going past would be about 3ft from the windows and could see straight in.

Although I think she is crazy for telling you what to do.. I think she possibly is trying to tell you something..
I would not want that little privacy tbh.. and would put something up, maybe not nets but there is the window film that is like a one way mirror.. especially in your bedroom

Exactly, I don’t want anyone watching me in my own home and it seems a bit weird that the OP doesn’t care

Ah yes. There's also the later 'Nosy Parkers And Peeping Toms (Prevention thereof)' addendum to Paragraph 28b(ii) the above Act, which was brought in the following year I believe.

Omg that made me laugh so much! After 5 years in my home I did recently wonder how much people can see when I'm in the bathroom as I don't close the blind 😬 the shower is to the side of the window thankfully!

Also, OP if you're friendly with your other neighbours get rhem all to open their blinds/curtains too 😂 surely she can just leave her curtains shut if it bothers her so much!

Down the way from me is a student house. When they moved in, they removed all the blinds and nets…including the bathroom frosted film.

I don’t know if they’re aware that any passing pedestrian can see them in the shower, roaming round semi naked, and (even worse) on the toilet!

I’ve seen more of their bits than I’ve seen of my own!

Yes, I think your diet should now mainly consist of large bananas and foot-long hotdogs eaten à la Nigella Lawson.

This has made my day. I’m longing to know her plans for ‘taking it further’.

Ì have massive leylandii trees all round my back garden. Bliss. New house is being built at the front so I'm planting even more 😅. I hate neighbours. Even nice ones. People are so weird. My neighbour keeps on dropping hits to replace all our windows to modernise like theirs. No thanks, I'd just rather hide the house