Sorry for the long post. I'm at a loss what to do.
We moved house a few months ago to our {we thought} forever house. From the moment we moved in it was lovely. Then 3nights after we moved in the neighbour came to complain we were parked in front of our house and it was causing her an issue. We have a cottage with parking under both windows, they have a 2bed cottage with, well no parking. She kept shouting "one cottage, one car" and started with "you have been told". My hubby had answered the door and was a little shocked and when I went through to defuse the situation she was super grumpy with me too and walked off shouting "one cottage, one car" like a little mantra. A couple of days later I heard him complaining about us to someone from the village (it's a tiny village) who thankfully said they've just moved in give them a break. A couple of weeks later one of their cats went missing and I found it hiding behind one of our sheds and couldn't get it out so called her to come around and get it. No thanks, except a post of face book later on.
Fast forward and her cats are fighting on our roof outside our bedroom window, stalking our elderly dog, using our veggie beds as a litter tray and worst of all, one of our dogs nearly caught one of them as they are so fearless. I used to lift them and pop them on the shed next to our wall, but they then thought it was ok to come into our house so I now spray them with water to get them to run off.
If I'm out speaking to the other neighbour who I go for coffees with occasionally, he'll shout Hi x and ignore me. I usually say hi and smile but have given up doing this over the last few weeks.
My Mum staying over involves her sleeping in the bedroom that overlooks their garden and he will stand an stare in the window at her moving around in the room.
Her hubby keeps putting our bins against our front door and today when I heard it I went out and said could you pop them against the side gate rather than slamming them off the front door which is what it sounded like he did. He moved them and then told me I was rude and he didn't slam them against the door, to which I replied you did last week. I also asked what we had done to get such rude behaviour from them to which he walked away.
I'm at a loss as I feel stressed in our garden, and I love my garden, and it is taking the shine off our new home. I've said to my hubbie maybe this won't be our forever home after all, but my Mum says we should stick our grounds until they move.
AIBU, I'm worried if they're doing this around the village we'll get a name so I'm being scrupulously friendly to everyone.