Have posted about this before on more than occasion, primarily this thread; www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3611051-To-think-if-this-bothers-her-that-much-she-should-pay-to-get-it-sorted-herself.
So sorry if this is groundhog day.
Essentially the woman who lives upstairs from has it in for me. Over the past three years she's made an endless series of complaints about me for incredibly trivial things. This culminated in her taking me to environmental health (as per the above) about a noise from my plumbing, complete with threats of legal action. She said I was responsible for paying to fix an irritating noise in the plumbing when her taps were turned on and off. A long saga ensued involving various plumbers and plumbing diagnostics people being called and ultimately the complaint to environmental health, who found in my favour and she backed down in the end -- we split the cost of the fix but they told her she had wasted their time.
Before all this she would text me on a daily basis with a constant stream of minor complaints about everything: my bins (a stray empty bin liner in her wheelie bin etc), asking me not to use my hairdryer after 10pm, not to have barbecues or use my washing machine too loudly on weekend evening etc etc. Everything she could possibly come up with she has complained about.
I'm not perfect but I'm a pretty considerate, law-abiding middle aged woman. I am by no stretch a nuisance neighbour: never play loud music or TV, I don't shout, I'm usually in bed by 11pm, I don't litter or flytip the back or front garden. I do, however, have a 10 year old DD who sometimes makes noise as 10 year olds do.
Latest thing is she has complained to the freeholder of my property and management company about our closing the front door too loudly. There's been no slamming or anything, she just doesn't like the noise it makes and has said it is causing her "distress". A couple of weeks ago I discovered her photographing my bins. And so it goes on.
Clearly she is someone is bored and neurotic and who gets off on making complaints and likes control over other people. I have long since given up trying to have a good relationship but have absolutely no wish to start a fight with her, I am increasingly exhausted by it and just want to be left alone, frankly. But I am increasingly feeling that I need to keep a record of this sort of thing because I need to protect myself in the event that she goes absolutely nuclear about something.
Is it worth going to the police about this? Is there another way to keep a log of stuff like this when its clearly not worth making a fuss about but just to show a pattern of behaviour? Has anyone else successfully dealt with this? I know long term the answer is probably to move but for various reasons that's not possible right now.