neighbour having a go at me for "trespassing"

[ethicalsusan]

I told me neighbour at the weekend I was going to cut my hedge and plant some new bushes and is it OK that I use his drive (as I could technically access from my own property but it is narrow).

He said yes no problem.

So today I cut and tidy the hedge from his side and put my plants in.

He's just come round and raged at me that I needed to ask his permission and I was trespassing and its not acceptable. Said a package he left on the has gone missing and asked if I had it. Also said that I'm not allowed to go on his drive again unless I ask in advance and hes in.

I just replied I did ask for permission, do you not remember the other day? Anyway I was far more polite than he deserved, just for neighbourly relations (he's a tit, I've had to call the RSPCA for animal abuse by him).

This is in the front garden, no gates or anything and he did say last year I was welcome to use his drive to access this strip of land that's mine.

Was ibu to do this? I thought I was uber polite tbh.

Sorry, I forgot that this is AIBU. No one can possibly be expected to simply answer the OP, it must be picked apart and proved to be bs on the basis of another MNers ability to read and comprehend. Ultimately the OP will be told that TABU on the basis that a random poster has decided they failed the cross examination

How is any of it contradictory?

A year ago, neighbour mentions it's fine to use his drive if she needs to to trim her hedge.

A day over the weekend, she asks if it's okay. Is told yes.

Thursday am, she cuts, and neighbour has a fit because she did it when he wasn't in and hadn't asked permission for that exact time frame.

She didn't realise it was a time limited consent - as in, had to be done at once.

None of that is contradictory. Sounds as though he's a very rigid person with a mental map of how the world and other people's behaviour should be, and he gets angry when people deviate from that map.

She said she presumed it wasn't an o(ffer?) with a time limit, which suggests that she didn't actually check this time that it was ok to go on his drive:

He did say to me last year that it was fine to use his drive to trim(presumed it wasn't a time limited o" and seeing as he'd been so relaxed about using my land I didn't expect him to be so nobish.

But it would be nice if the OP clarified this.

Of course he's unreasonable about using the OP's land himself and how he addressed her.

OTOH, could he have an early degenerative disease?

How on earth are you getting that?!

He offered last year, she checked last weekend, he said "fine go ahead".

I dont see that the OP did anything wrong.

I don't think its trespass unless your doing damage. As he gave you permission twice and you were there with a valid reason he's being stupid. Has he got mh problems?