we bought our house early last year and have slowly been saving up to do work to it that needs doing, we have done some bits to the garden to make it safer for the children especially dd who is 19 months old. eg the previous owners had a strawberry patch and dd is allergic to them, just a splash of strawberry juice brings her out in hives and blister type welts so last summer I dug all the plants out and binned them, dp has used some spare slabs that had been left stacked up by the previous owner to put a bit of a make shift patio in until we are able to have the top end levelled and laid with bark chippings for the kids play equipment to go on. ndn has a clear view of the garden and as soon as I had removed all the plants she started commenting about how the previous owner would be devastated to see what we were doing to her garden. I smiled and and made some platitudes and ignored it. however they have been away this last week and dp and I have made the most of the nicer weather and have started tidying up the garden a bit, there was a nasty half dead conifer in the flower bed at the edge of the garden. it casts a massive shadow and is killing the grass as well as making the patio outside the back door unusable as the scent triggers my asthma. I have cut it down this weekend, no sooner have ndns got back off holiday and seen us out and about and she is commenting again about how devastated the previous owner will be when she finds out we have taken the tree out.
wibu to point out that it isnt the previous owners bloody garden it's ours and if she was so bloody precious about her plants she should have taken the half dead rotten things with her??!
I won't actually say anything because for the most part ndns are very nice and we have no problems with noise and she is very good at keeping her kids quiet if she k ow dp is asleep (he works night). but this constant crap about the previous owner is really annoying me now!!