AIBU to be upset by this letter.

[welshcath]

I got home today to find this letter, which had been sent in the post. Yes our garden has a few stray bits of rubbish in it as it goes straight on to the road and it's been very windy the last few days. It was on my list of things to do this weekend but now I feel like not tidying, in the manner of a truculent child. WWYD?

That letter sounds fabulous. I will do that tomorrow.

I would definitely be tempted to put a broken fridge or old mattress in the garden.
Could you enlarge the letter onto neon-coloured paper and have it laminated and put it securely on the fence or gate?

Add note to bottom of letter:

"dear mystery neighbour, unfortunately you did not adhere to proper letter-writing etiquette therefore I am unable to identify you in order to prepare a personal response. As such, I have included all neighbours in this response. If you are the originator of this letter, please do feel free to pop by and tell me exactly what the difficulties you are having with my garden are. Perhaps you could advise me on how to better manage the wind to stop it blowing detritus in inappropriate directions that are clearly distressing to you? Yours etc"

Photocopy it and put through doors of your 10 nearest neighbours

It might embarrass the one who sent it as everyone will know they're an arsehole, and will give the rest of them a bit of a laugh.

Similar thing happened many moons ago with a neigbour a few doors down who was getting nasty notes about the caravan being renovated in her drive. She asked us all. It wasn't me, but we had a laugh at the expense of the sad git who had time to send said notes. Lifelong friendship has ensued.

Please get some gloriously tacky garden gnomes and the like. Drive them bonkers

Ah xposted with VictoriaMcdade - yours is better, less PA!!

How on earth are you supposed to keep the garden ok when it's dark when most people get home from work?

Except I knew who it was and ordered a pack of 1000 dandelion seeds from Ebay to scatter over said persons precious lawn in the night. I didn't actually go through with it though, I was too terrified of being caught on their lawn in my dressing gown and slippers at 2am!

oh someone should make a sitcom out of that! what a brilliant image. Thank you

Don't send what VictoriaMcdade said -- you will look insane.

ordered a pack of 1000 dandelion seeds from Ebay to scatter over said persons precious lawn in the night.

That is amazing. Evil. But amazing!! Banking that idea for future reference

I can't see how the letter is 'threatening' - it isn't.

It is petty and small minded but definitely no threat from what I read.

Ooh Tabbylady's is better! Sane, and gets the point across.

If you've got a fridge,washing machine,and junk in garden it's reasonable letter
You've said there's a wrapper and not much else.so it is unreasonable

I've just remembered that our very friendly neighbours once asked if we were growing a nature area as we hadn't mown an area of lawn and it had grown quite tall. That's a much friendlier way of dealing with scruffy neighbours, if you feel the need to.

Get one of these gnomes and give it pride of place in your front garden.

Buy some plastic dog turds and leave them littered about your property then find some real ones and throw them in his.

Who the hell does he think he is? And too cowardly to answer the door and speak to your DH - he obviously thought that you wouldn't guess where the note came from.

You could put the few bits of rubbish into a bag and force them through his letterbox (or attach them to his front door) with a note saying "If it bothers you so much perhaps you would like to dispose of this appropriately. I would do it but am obviously unable to make the right decisions regarding rubbish, and I might put it in the wrong place - up your @rse, for instance."

I'm like many of the other posters on here - the very fact that someone had told me to clear it up, would make me inclined to leave it/add to it (just for a few days - I don't want to live in a tip any more than the next person as I'm sure you don't).

Can you borrow a pony? Or a goat? Tie it up for a day in the front garden . . .

Both letter suggestions will make you sound bashit crazy, sorry. And I agree the note you received wasn't threatening. What's the implied threat? Or I'll clean it up for you?

As to a letter being being cowardly - oh please. An actual confrontation by a neighbor would have you writing on here about literally shaking with rage because they dared to insult you in person.

Difficult to say without seeing the state of your garden.

TB fair though, it must be pretty bad for someone to go to the effort of sending you a letter?!

I would be furious too and would be on a mission to make my front yard as disgraceful as possible. How about one of those light projected things which shines a silhouette of a naked woman about ten feet across onto the front wall of your house?

And yy to the gnomes, but get the lewd ones, perhaps one mooning or one with a hard on. This website seems to have some...

thehomeofgnome.co.uk/rude-garden-gnomes/

I would never tidy it up now

OMG that website do a mooning gnome solar garden light!!!! Buy twenty of them!!!

YANBU I would be raging. We had similar once on our old street, one house had a wreck of a camper van parked on the road outside (admittedly it was a bloody eyesore) and someone put a letter through their door about it. The guy whose wreck it was photocopied the letter & put a copy through every house on the street with his own letter stated it was taxed & tested and if anyone had a problem to go see him about face to face. Was a talking point for months!! Their letter was typed but given yours is handwritten that'll be even more of a talking point with everyone pointing the finger & having opinions on who it is.