ABU to put a note on my very rural door telling randoms to eff off.

[KnickersandGnomes]

Possibly outing but I'm a bit freaked out. Nearest neighbours are over a mile away, they really are - I live in the middle of nowhere. Couriers wont deliver because they swear they can't find the place blah blah etc etc.

I have some pretty horrid health issues, mostly Lyme Disease based and they leave me so tired and wrung out.

This afternoon I had some unexpected knocking at my door which I ignored followed up by a woman's voice in my garden and banging on my living room, bedroom and porch windows.

There was nothing put though my letter box and my garden gate was left wide open (mahoosive no no as I have five dogs) and it's left me both angry and scared.

I don't like or want to be angry and scared but I am both now so I'm hoping that the Mumsnet wisdom can help?

I have no recent partner that I have parted with on bad terms and because of my illness I live a very quiet life these days so I am utterly lost?

Do it. Say we don't answer the door, don't knock. We have Covid 19 symptoms.
How weird someone would knock on the door and windows.

Oh no, that's really unsettling for you. Hope you're OK. Have you any idea what she wanted? - just wondering whether or not a note would have deterred her.

Do you have this a lot, or was it a one off? Could you not have opened a window to ask her to fuck off what she wanted? Bit weird if you’re so remote. Weren’t the dogs going nuts?

If you are feeling so angry and scared, have you asked yourself if the place you are living in is the best place for you ?
Perhaps, the woman who was trying to contact you was worried about a lovely neighbour-she knew you are alone and perhaps just wanted to offer a friendly h
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If you are feeling so angry and scared, have you asked yourself if the place you are living in is the best place for you ?
Perhaps, the woman who was trying to contact you was worried about a lovely neighbour-she knew you are alone and perhaps just wanted to offer a friendly hand.

I agree with @Cherrysoup could you not just have opened an upstairs window and asked her what she wanted?

Big sign mahoosive dogs on property if your not delivering don’t dare come a knocking.

Perhaps she wanted to check you are ok?

Checking you're ok maybe?

I'd get a Ring doorbell

Agree with Igiveup... - it could be someone just wanting to check you're okay. Are you in touch with any neighbours?
Having said that, I'd rather expect that they'd put a note through the door in that case - but maybe they didn't think to bring pen/paper, assuming you'd answer the door.

Why wouldn't you at least open a window and see what she wanted, I don't get it?

I hope you're ok op, that must have been very unsettling. I would say pop a note up to inform people you are shielding.

I would have just opened a window and asked what she wanted, then there would be no reason to be scared, you would know why she was there.

I think I would feel pretty safe if I had 5 dogs, but I would also be wanting to know what she wanted as she seemed pretty determined to speak to you.

Perhaps she needed help? You could have clled out the window, you could have answered the door. It,s the done thing to shut the gate but if you had answered you could have told her couldn,t you.

If it was a regular occurrence then you'd have a point, but seems a bit ott for a one off. Chances are she was looking for help, car broken down, lost, found an escaped or injured animal etc. It's unlikely random door step sellers or psychopaths would make the effort to target you, and certainly not in that manner.

Why do mumsnet users never answer a door?! Surely as a one off just answer

@Troels

Thank you for replying.

I'm still stunned that someone did that! It's an old cottage and the glass in the living room is brittle and single glazed (so difficult to heat in winter but it works for the dogs and me) and then they left no message?

I'm really freaked out - my dogs look and act the part but would run away cutting me and throwing me behind them (I don't doubt this for a second, I have clever dogs).

It's horrible and I'm scared they will come back because I do not know what they want.

OP you sound familiar and if you are the poster I think you are, could it have been the woman who was helping you get your house in order? Simply to check you were managing? If I've got the wrong person, I apologise.

Because people that knock your door are without exception axe murderers @majesticallyawkward.

I also can't understand why you didn't just ask what she wanted - through a window if necessary. So now you're scared she'll come back as you didn't know what she wanted - but you could have asked!

It is unlikely it was sinister, why wouldn’t you call out the window and so what she wanted?

Why didn’t you answer the door? Then you’d know who she was and what she wanted!

and then they left no message?
They probably had no means to leave a message? It’s not likely they were carrying pens and paper with them.