to think I do not have a communal washing line

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So I came back from the food shop on Monday lunchtime and looked out of the patio doors to see a pair of boxer shorts, mens jogging bottoms and a shirt on my line in my back garden mixed in with my towels and bedding that I had earlier put out!
I stood for a while pondering (actually wondering WTF was going on!)
then went to the car to unload the shopping. My NDN came out (miserable B) and said 'Why aren't you at work'. I replied saying I don't work Mondays, he said 'Oh I thought you were when you went out early this morning'. Then the penny dropped. I asked if it was his washing on my line, he said it was and he had jumped over the wall to hang it up, could I check it was dry and if not 'redress it' (he means peg it up properly upon questioning). I was gobsmacked.
When I told him I had a higher fence and side gate being put up in a few weeks he wasn't very pleased. I wonder how long he has been using my bloody line??!!

QueenofmyPrinces

Stick a really muddy hand print on one or two of the offending articles.

Queen - just push all the clothes off the fence into their garden

I’ve text the landlord but no reply yet.

I’ve had to go out but when I go home I’m setting my son on them with his water gun!!

I'd just knock the, back off or send the kids out with water pistols

My husband came home and threw them all back over into their own garden

I think painting the fence is in order 😁😁😁

I think painting the fence is in order
Yes when their washing is still on it

Nooooooooooooooo. The brass bloody neck of it. It astounds me how brazen some folk are!!!

@Time40 sounds like quite a nice arrangement! Could you formalise it somehow? Maybe it was what they did with the previous owner and just carried on? I'd let someone dry their washing on my line if they mowed my lawn, but I hate gardening Could you leave a note on the line asking who is doing it (in a friendly way) so that you could work out a proper arrangement?

The rest of these neighbours are cheeky as fuck, get in the sea

Poster with the overhanging washing: can you get the kids out with paintbrushes or waterpistols or something messy on your fence? Act shocked if they say anything! Gosh, I didn't realise!

Poster with the overhanging washing: can you get the kids out with paintbrushes or waterpistols or something messy on your fence? Act shocked if they say anything! Gosh, I didn't realise!

Well as my husband gathered all the clothes up and threw them back over the fence into the neighbour’s garden I would like to think that they won’t do it again......but something tells me this isn’t the end of neighbour wars. I fear my husband has ignited the start of a very hostile relationship between us all from now on it. We shall see!!

Your neighbour is extremely cheeky OP.

Queen - have to say, the neighbours doing that with the fence wouldn’t bother me at all. Why does it bother you? What harm is it doing? They haven’t entered your garden or any thing, they’re just using the fence as extra space...why have you texted their landlord about it?

Oh - just read your update about your dh being petty over some clothes that aren’t doing any harm. He probably has started the hostilities, you’re right. Well done him.

I'd get a washing line from poundland, wrap it up in pretty paper and present it to him with a charming grin "now you don't need to use my line"
Gets the message across without causing hostilities.

Fences are shared property. The clothes hand over into their garden. This doesn't look nice for starters. It ruins your enjoyment of the garden in the sense the kids can't run around with water pistols or something to the neighbours clothes could easily get wet.
It literally costs a few quid for a washing line, so the neighbours rte just

Being unreasonable.

pictish

I don’t want to be sitting in my garden and be looking at my neighbours clothes all draped over the inside of my fence and nor do I want to be picking up their clothes off my lawn either. Of course the clothes weren’t causing harm, nor were the clothes on the OP’s washing line but that’s not the point, it’s about the cheekiness of people.

I would never drape my clothes over someone’s fence and expect them to go round picking them up when they blow off into their garden because it’s ridiculously rude.

Well, that’s my opinion anyway but clearly you would have no problem with any of the above.

Siwel
My fences aren’t shared properly. They run up to the boundary of my property. It is unusual for fences to be shared.

Yes but the fences, back onto someone elses property. So if you hang soemthing over the top of the fence it is jow on theor side.

You’re right - I wouldn’t have a problem with it. I have other things to occupy my thoughts, while being an easy going sort, not given to creating hostility over things that don’t affect me in any meaningful way.

Looking at someone else’s t-shirts on a fence and maybe having to retrieve one or two items that have blown off is not worthy of telling tales and complaining about Queen. It says far more about you than them.

Yes ofcourse, I totally agree, which is why I said upthread to treat the overhanging washing as foliage.

@Time40 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3172393-Neighbours-access-rights-and-non-disclosure-by-previous-owner?pg=1 thread about rights to hang washing on neighbouring property.

I think I love you Grems! 😂

To the poster with people using her hottub when she's away - get a fake poo and leave it floating. That'll stop them.

Thanks, @Mummyoflittledragon. I'll read that, and look into it. I think the important thing is how long it takes before washing rights become established.

I'm not too worried yet, because the line is in the back garden. It's one of those gardens that stands apart from the house - you have to go over a little back road to get to it, so it's not too intrusive to have people going there. You can see it from the kitchen window, though.

Cheeky so-and-so. You could take the line down when you’re not using it..

Queen When they've removed that washing on the fence I'd smear something sticky over the fence so if they do it again their washing will get covered in it.