About people walking on my lawn?

[Coffeethrowtrampbitch]

I live in a mid terraced house. My front garden and that of my neighbours is in a slope, there are four steps on my path and then a straight path to my front door.

Every single person who is going door to door, postman, leafleters, walk across my lawn in front of my window in order to avoid walking down my neighbours five steps and up my stairs. The lawn is very wet and a hole is developing in the middle, there is now a visible track of mud in the grass which encourages more people to walk across.

I cannot see anywhere where we could put a sign which would be visible until someone had already walked on the lawn. We have built a deck in front of the front door to try and discourage it, hasn't worked.

We've had two people cross it already this morning, and yesterday there was a huge patch of mud which looked as though someone had slipped while crossing the lawn. I'm worried someone will get hurt and hold me liable.

So, aibu not to want people walking across the lawn and damaging it? And if I'm not, what should I do to stop them?

Get some of these bad boys

Bye bye annoying lawn walkers!

The other thing about my mum's terrace is that there's a footpath in front and between that and the road is a wide expanse of grass with a proper path cutting through the middle of it.

The number of people who are too fucking lazy to use the path when they've crossed the road but cut across the grass and mud and lurking dog shit.

Some of them expected to be allowed to walk in the house too.

When I used to call cabs the drivers would often wait opposite the house, not opposite the path which was about 10 yards up. They'd be puzzled why I'd prefer to walk the long way round along the paths in high heels in the dark rather than getting muddy and dog shitty and possibly even falling over and then getting all that crap in their cab.

I love the zombie gnomes.

What about planting bulbs amid grass?

The house we live in had been empty for a year before we moved in with large front and rear gardens it took a lot of time ,effort and ingenuity to stop mothers taking their children to the local school to stop parking on our front lawn and their darling offspring from playing in our back garden.

I must admit DH went out and watered the back lawn with the hosepipe after we had been there three months in sheer frustration!!

Try this: www.amazon.co.uk/Contech-ScareCrow-Motion-Activated-Deterrent/dp/B005MW9VOM/ref=sr_1_1?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1393932893&sr=1-1&keywords=Contech+ScareCrow+Motion+Activated+Animal+Deterrent

I like the zombie gnomes a lot.

I already have a dog, but she prefers to poo in my hall the neighbour's dog goes on my lawn but my polite neighbours always pick up.

In the summer months I plan to sit on the deck, strumming a banjo and yelling 'Git off ma lawhn!' at passersby. I live next to the school so word should spread fast.

Ooh Frimpong now I know what I want for Mothers Day