To think this is unusual behaviour?

[McNuggetsAndMcflurries]

Both sets of neighbours have behaved weirdly towards us in the past month.
First, one neighbour came out of their house as they saw me leaving to go out and walked around to the front so that they got to me as I got there. They then proceeded to tell me that they had seen mice in their garden that had come from our garden (they were sure they were from our garden as it had happened previously when someone else lived here 🤷‍♀️) and that I needed to tell my boyfriend and my landlord so that they could sort it out. Neither me or my boyfriend had seen any mice in the garden or near our house (and still haven't) BTW. The landlord said he'd come out and speak to them the day after but said that there was nothing we could do about a wild animal and would only be concerned if there were rats, not mice. Well, he came to speak to them and suddenly the mice were rats and had to be coming from our garden because we apparently have undergrowrh and they asked him to remove all the plants/bushes from the garden. He told them and us that he wasn't going to do this and after looking around the garden didn't see anything either. A few days later he let me know that the neighbours had texted him to let him know that they hadn't seen the mice/rats again.

Then the other neighbours knocked on the door to tell me that there had been a strong smell coming from our bin that they could smell from their garden (neither me or my boyfriend have smelled anything and the bins are in our garden...) and he had been out to collect his bin after the collection and put some bleach into ours and asked me to get my boyfriend to clean it as there is something spilled at the bottom...?

I'm having a baby next month which is why I assume they expect my boyfriend to do these things but I don't understand why they're coming to tell us these things? Especially when it doesn't even seem to be mostly true.. what would you do??

I tell you what, if my neighbour came round and put bleach in MY bin without asking, he'd have got the sharp edge of my tongue! How dare he!?

Secondly, IGNORE them both. If you are confident there's no smell and no mice, they're just being idiots...the first one sounds nuts...remove all the plants and bushes indeed! What a weirdo! Definitely sounds a bit weird.

Take absolutely NO notice of either of them. If they approach again to complain about weird things, don't stand there listening...say "Terribly busy, got to go" and walk away.

They are probably talking amongst themselves winding each other up about mice, rats, shrubs and wheelie bins. I wonder if the landlord used to live at the house and moved out because of the neighbours.
Just keep refering them to the landlord when they complain.

What's wrong with having mice in the garden anyway? Wildlife friendly innit?

I have put a hole in the fence to encourage hedgehogs and sometimes put out dried hedgehog food and water. We do get the occasional hedgehog but nine times out of ten it is a mouse who eats it, and I know this because I set up a wildlife camera every night so I can see who the visitors are. But one or two little mice in the garden are doing no harm.

Mind you i don't think I am wildlife friendly enough to feel the same if it was a rat!

Are you...and nothing you've said implies this...but a bit messier than your neighbours? I'm just wondering if they perhaps are terribly sick and span types...would you say your garden, drive, car etc are clean and tidy...some people who have a lot of time can be so fastidious. As long as your landlord's happy it's not their business...just trying to imagine what their thinking is?