Bloody snob twat of a neighbour

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Has just turned up on my doorstep to complain that our windows make it seem 'the house is full of squatters'. And apparently she has terribly important guests today who would no doubt be horrified to see this. They would probably think she lives in a slum.

Her house doesn't even directly overlook ours it's up a road just across from us. I can see her windows and she's got disgusting curtain swags but I've never really let that bother me before. I might write to the council about an offense on tasteful interior decor.

My crime? I've just been on a weekend away and took my few lovely summer clothes, washed them this morning and have hung them from the blinds/curtain rails in our five front windows so they can dry in the sun (we have no tumble dryer or garden).

I know there are a fair few poncos living around here, but this beggars belief. The worst is I feel I should move them now.

Now im not a person who likes confrontation, but I am a tad childishly defiant.

I'd have hung my grubbiest smalls in the window, with a dirty blanket behind them (sagging in the middle of course), and a nice lamp with a red sarong draped over it.

OOh, I wonder if you live near us?

We are having the bathroom replaced and have had the old one ripped out, so just today we have an elderly toilet - yes !! - sitting in the front garden.

Yours for £20.

We got asked to move our dustbin to the back of the house as neighbour's guests wouldn't appreciate our bin!

A RL Hyacinth Bouquet!!! Wow. This is fascinating. Faffed over washing in the front window, how very 1970's. Does she have a DH called Richard and a DS called Sheridan?!?!

PS YANBU!!!

I now have windows full of washing again.

I am in an odd mood and couldn't care less what my cowbag neighbour thinks.

Ooooh I'm loving that you have put washing out again!!!

Please put some pvc crotchless kecks out and if she complains tell her well its hot in this weather, I like a cool fadge!!!

TDWP although i don't like interfering neighbours and may be barking up the wrong tree here but are you hanging your washing in your sitting room where you have to look at it too?

couldn't stand that myself - if so put it upstairs (in the front) to piss her off or in back room where you don't have to look at it.

We are the top two floors of a four storey georgian building, so yes some washing is in the living room, I can bear looking at it. The rest is in my bedroom and the spare berdoom window. None in the DC room at the back as they'd no doubt pull it down and piss on it.

Although it's no doubt dry now, I should take it down, lazy slattern I am.

PJC - like the new word fadge

Well currently I am line drying but in winter I hang DH's shirts on coathangers in the window of the spare room (happens to be at the front) to dry. makes them easier to iron than draped over a clothes horse.

We have loads of rules in our deeds - no sky dishes at the front, no changing planting at front, no keeping poultry, no parking vans or caravans on drives, no hanging washing at the front. etc Nearly everyone has broken them in one way or another. We have done the planting one mainly because I didn't want my garden to look like B&Q car park in terms of landscaping, and the tree died because the crappy builders planted it on top of a load of rubble.

If she comes knocking on your door again, strip off all your clothes and answer the door with a sigh and a hand on the hip and say ?Please tell me your not here to inform me I?m not allowed to walk around my house naked?? You?ll never see her again.

I?ve done some very devious things to pissy neighbours 9and companies that weren?t willing to compromise). My mantra is ?I?m an artist; I can take this places?.

Harrogate !!! thats not northern ,its the Bath of the north ( except in these parts Bath doesnt rhyme with arse !!)

DH reckons you must live in my mum's street!

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