To think our drive isn't a handy cut through to next door??

[TheCunnyFuntOfEastwick]

We have a little drive, just big enough for 1 car, we have a Vectra which pretty much fills it, it leaves a small gap about a foot wide between the house wall and the back end of the car. Next doors drive is the same as ours, and there is a hedge inbetween the 2 drives, with a gap between the end of our garage and the hedge. Both us and NDN have our cars on the drives all day. NDN parents seem to think that it is ok for them to come down our drive and squeeze through the tiny gap between our house wall and our car, ending up behind NDNs car, instead of squeezing past NDNs car!

We have asked them not to do it, they said they'd stop. But they didn't so we asked NDN to tell them to stop. They're still doing it!! I think they think we can't see them doing it. Tbh this is just a rant really. There's not much we can do until we rip the hedge out and put a fence up instead! Hopefully this will happen next year. Grrr.
Rant over.

OMG !! oh well at least they are only in the back garden!

I love the zombie idea.

I am afraid I do something similar to your NDNs parents with next door - but in my defence they are not living there - unlikely to ever be back - and it means I can get my bins out withouthaving to move my car (small drive if you can even call; it that)

I would not do it if they were actually living there, and don't touch anything. So it soudns hypocritical but I don;t think you are being unreasonable

I guess however I am being unreasonable.....

ducks

Tbh shark that's ok, our house had been empty for a long time before we bought it and next door did used to cut down our drive, they did it after we'd bought the place and we were doing it up for 3 months. They stopped as soon as we moved in. I just think it's damn cheeky that their parents seems to think it's still ok

Feel absolved - Ta! How's the barbed wire going....

Is there a particular reason you hate them doing it other than the principle that it is your property and they shouldn't be walking on it, e.g. Are you worried they will scratch your car or something?

If you have a concrete demonstrable concern to go to them with rather than "we don't like you doing this" it might make them more thoughtful than if they think you are just being awkward iykwim.

Yes, block the gap with something that would be awkward for them to move.

But some people seriously have no idea about respecting other people's boundaries. PILs went on holiday a few years ago, and came home to find that their next door neighbour had fitted a gate into the fence separating their two properties, and had even cut down some of MIL's rosebushes that were next to the fence, in order to improve his unauthorised access to their garden. MIL went nuts when she saw it. It's not even as if the gate was a shortcut to anywhere but PIL's front door.

Neighbour claimed that he'd done it in case the burglar alarm went off and he needed to investigate, because of course having to walk an extra 10 metres or so would make all the difference there [hhmm]

I'd get a cardboard cut out of Gandalf with a speech bubble saying 'you will not pass'.

You can actually order these online

Loving the Gandalf suggestion [hgrin]

Oh feck it's 'you shall not pass'

Armature mistake there grrr

Armature? Nice one auto correct you twonk.

I'm still laughing at Charlotte's pampas in the back garden. Who knows what message that sends out to those in the know?! Haha.

pampas ? tell me someone :)

Having pampas in your garden is supposed to advertise that you're swingers.....

My mum has one of these hedgehog holly in a pot between her and her neighbours and you wouldn't go near. She only waters it now and again. Probably once a month.

That would put them of walking by it.

ghostship - I want one of those. I shall put it out at HAlloween next year!

Pampas grass in your back garden probably sends a whole other message...

cement dust - the stuff they mix cement from. on the floor. gets on everything and gets rid of trespassers.