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Neighbours Indiana Jones-ing their way into our garden

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Dadfromthesea · 25/09/2023 15:33

This is making me seethe and chuckle in equal measure.

At the end of our garden are some big old fir trees, then the boundary fence. After that there’s a little stream, and if you kept going you’d find the fence of the people who live in the house behind (let’s call them Mr and Mrs Jones), then their back garden.

The Joneseseses have just bought a big seating unit thing and plonked it at the back end of their garden (the bit nearest us). It’s about 10ft from my boundary fence and a good 70ft from the back of my house - we’re lucky to have a big garden - and there’s the fir trees as well which make it a pretty thick barrier.

But they decided they want some privacy and put up a big canvass barrier. Fair enough, I don’t care.

Except…

They’ve tied it to our fir trees!

They’ve clambered over their own fence, slung a ladder (an actual LADDER) over the stream, scrambled up the bank, and cable tied the bloody thing to our trees! Without so much as a word!

They did it in the dead of night! Came down the other day to discover the bloody Shroud of Turin cable tied to my trees! The ladder was still there on the bank of the stream.

So obviously, being British and terrified of confrontation, I did the natural thing of not mentioning it to them but instead cutting the fucker down. It’s now in my garage.

And they’ve replaced it with another!! It arrived overnight this morning!

Just to be clear - I don’t care that they want to shield themselves from us. It’s a dark green thing so I can barely even see it. But I can see it, and I do care that they’ve gone on a bloody Navy SEAL Commando mission, twice, to my garden to put the bloody thing up!

Yes I could go and talk to them but a) I’ve never said a word to them before b) they might kill me and c) this is funnier.

But tell me I ANBU please.

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Ivebeentogeorgia · 25/09/2023 23:14

I’m so invested in this thread 😂

Duckingella · 25/09/2023 23:14

I'd leave it up to avoid seeing Mr.Jones swinging hammocks during their outdoor swinging parties;I can't see why anyone would erect well their clearly erecting something things like that in September?

LulooLemon · 25/09/2023 23:14

This thread has all the making of a classic 😂

PreferQuietlife · 25/09/2023 23:18

Am I the only one thinking Mrs. Jonesies has been told to LTB in relation to her STBXH and she's taking care of business in the time honored mumsnet tradition with a patio... If so OP, how about some solidarity? Hang the shrouds (both of them) back up for her, it's the least you can do.

PenisButterOnMyCuttedUpPear · 25/09/2023 23:23

Dadfromthesea · 25/09/2023 15:59

I have also toyed with the idea of knocking on, coquettishly leaning against their front door, and seductively whispering ‘Your shroud is tied to my fir tree’ to Mr Jones.

Please please do this and tell us what happened!

DrBlackbird · 25/09/2023 23:23

Best laugh all day. Much needed. How do we nominate for Mumsnet classics?

PenisButterOnMyCuttedUpPear · 25/09/2023 23:26

@MrsElijahMikaelson1 what are they up to that they don't want anyone to see I'm not a betting woman but if I were then 10 to 1 it's having sex in hedges. This is mumsnet after all.

DevonSeaSwimmer · 25/09/2023 23:32

Incoming Storm Agnes might take care of any more erected shrouds.

ErrolTheDragon · 25/09/2023 23:33

DrBlackbird · 25/09/2023 23:23

Best laugh all day. Much needed. How do we nominate for Mumsnet classics?

You just use the Report button to suggest it - reports aren't just for bad stuff.

Mountaineer0009 · 25/09/2023 23:41

PenisButterOnMyCuttedUpPear · 25/09/2023 23:26

@MrsElijahMikaelson1 what are they up to that they don't want anyone to see I'm not a betting woman but if I were then 10 to 1 it's having sex in hedges. This is mumsnet after all.

thats the after session

DrBlackbird · 25/09/2023 23:44

ErrolTheDragon · 25/09/2023 23:33

You just use the Report button to suggest it - reports aren't just for bad stuff.

Done!

viques · 25/09/2023 23:48

Passepartoute · 25/09/2023 18:57

You should put a notice up with your charges for displaying notices.

I think I would be tempted to subtly alter the notices.

Cancelled due to Apathy

All proceeds to the Russell Brand Legal Appeal Fund

Please Note New Start Time

Please all pop round to celebrate CFs birthday with a surprise birthday breakfast on Sunday morning at 8.00 am.

TheSpikySpinosaurus · 25/09/2023 23:51

Yawn 🙄

PyongyangKipperbang · 25/09/2023 23:52

TheSpikySpinosaurus · 25/09/2023 23:51

Yawn 🙄

Ooh are you feeling all warm inside at your sense of superiority?!

Well done you!!

Sauvblanctime · 25/09/2023 23:59

Shameless follow!

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 26/09/2023 00:25

Lol @viques

ColdEvenings · 26/09/2023 00:28

Jewelanemone · 25/09/2023 22:08

Duct tape a Brownie in a Scream mask to the in situ tarpaulin and wait for sunrise....

Crying!!!! I can see this thread being made into a film!!

TheSpikySpinosaurus · 26/09/2023 00:54

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LardoBurrows · 26/09/2023 01:13

ArabeIIaScott · 25/09/2023 16:54

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Bloody hell, that scares the bejeezus out of me.

pogostickplastique · 26/09/2023 01:13

weirdoboelady · 25/09/2023 18:22

slightly worried about the OP's politics but have now realised that the people she is worried about have consciences so much (even) worse than NF's that they are invisible without an actual spaceship

Eh?

pogostickplastique · 26/09/2023 01:14

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I think the other one is a troll thread not this one

Debini · 26/09/2023 01:17

Following for tomorrows update!

abs12 · 26/09/2023 01:19

In the big scheme of my life I am truly disproportionately invested in this thread. It's unnerving.

LuciaPillson · 26/09/2023 01:22

I think this was the troll thread, but then the counter-troll thread undermined the troll status of this thread so this thread became the non-troll thread and the other thread became the troll thread. Although it might be the other way around.

And by troll, I mean owl. 🦉

ErniesGhostlyGoldTops · 26/09/2023 01:56

You need to write them a letter,

It has come to my attention that you have twice entered my property to attach material to my trees via a ladder over my stream. This is very concerning for obvious reasons but I am not prepared to claim on my insurance if you get injured whilst on my property. If you wish to have more privacy in your garden, you need to erect a screen on your own land as according to statute law. Please do not enter my property for any reason in the future or attach anything to my property. Any further trespass will result in legal action on my part. Yours sincerely, OP

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