OK so bear with me please.
I live in the middle of a 3 bungalow terrace. I have elderly neighbours either side of me. The one couple are lovely, they're delightfully eccentric.
The elderly lady the other side has a serious OCD problem. She is absolutely obsessive about cleaning and everything being perfect. I recently had a conservatory built and she sent her daughter round to demand the builders insurance details for "when they cause damage to her property" despite it not affecting her in any way. The builder got into trouble for getting water on her drive, she made him wash off her entire drive.
More recently she is obsessing about the leaves. She was out in the cold at 22:00 the other night picking up the 3 leaves on the drive. Seriously she won't have even a single leaf on her drive. As soon as a petal withers in the garden the whole plant is replaced. I have no trees at the front of my property so I'm not to blame for the leaves falling.
She now has a big vacuum thing for sucking the leaves up. She's been out twice this week already with it. Today she was leaning over the fence and was vacuuming the leaves from the edge of my drive. There aren't many and I love autumn leaves. There is a little hedgehog that snuffles through the leaves in the evening which is adorable.
I went out and asked her to stop clearing leaves from my drive, I said they weren't bothering me in the slightest. She replied saying she was bothered by them and didn't want to get them up when they blow onto her drive. If she drops that vacuum thing it will damage my car and I really don't want her to interfere with my property at all. What would you advise?
By the way, both properties are privately owned.