Other neighbours as well as myself have had confrontations with this person whose garden backs onto a shared alley, which some of us use to drive down to park our cars in garages. He tends to chop his trees down and leave the branches in a pile along the outside of HIS wall, sticking out to scratch the paintwork of vehicles that go past and once had a bonfire in the middle of the alley, on a nice hot summers day when everyone had their washing out to dry. He gets very irate if people criticise his habits. Couple of days ago I put my two grandchildren in the car, drove out of my garage, and there he was, up a tree, using a chainsaw, throwing all the branches into the middle of the alley. He saw me coming out, but made no attempt to come down from his ladder and move the branches, so I sounded the horn. He just glared. I got out of the car, and said as politely as I could "I need to get these children home, can you move these branches, please?" He heard me, but he just carried on. So I started throwing the branches back over the wall. I think anger gave me strength cos they just seemed to fly over. He found his voice then. "What you doin', what you doin' ?" He starts yelling. "I call police, I call police". "Call them then" I said. "In fact I'll do it for you." Actually, I would have done if I hadn't got two children who needed to get home. Then he starts calling me a witch, always whinging about something. Well, it's usually to do with him blocking the alley with branches, bonfires, or a work van, so I guess he's right there. Anyway, I got in the car and drove off, but two days later I'm still annoyed about it, and thought I would write it all down and see what other people might have done in that situation.