Neighbours washing - diagram included!

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I live in a ground floor maisonette and my garden backs on to my kitchen and I have windows from my bedroom (and bathroom) facing the garden. The weather has obviously been lush all day and I myself have done every single last piece of washing (feeling smug).

Just peered out my window to look at my flowers and seen my upstairs neighbours have hung their washing over our joining fence.

Not the crime of the century but it’s only just been hung up now at 8pm. It’s all overlapping and pieces of clothing are on the dirty, bird pooed fence.

I would love to show you a photo but it would be super putting outting.

To the ones who’ll go for the throat. It’s ok. This post is in jest but equally I can see my neighbours pants hanging off our joining fence - ew. Haha.

Oh yes it is 😁

I haven’t heard apeth in years! Takes me right back to my childhood

Oooh so we can now add to spider-wiillies and the clothes getting 'darked on', as they are on the fence they will also be 'birded' and smell 'fency'.

A laundry disaster.

Always hearing you daft apeth when I was young.

Oh not eggs, haven’t you heard they drag their willies over washing at night and it gets darked on apparently. I won’t go into the cooties with leaving washing out overnight.

they will have dust, insects, even splinters ....yuck...I wonder why they did not simply throw all their clothes into your garden since their behaviour is utterly crazy

No facebook page and I wouldn't know about neighbouring house prices cus we've all been here for years.

If you think it's anywhere normal hanging washing over a 1 foot high fence around your front door then, well, you should move here cus a certain someone would be right up your street!

I don’t think the OP is worked up about it….

So can you see the washing from your garden too. I would hate to spend tomorrow with my neighbors pants on our mutual fence . Yuck.

I'd rather be homeless than live in your village,

One word - foxes.

What a shame.

You sound a real hoot!

As do you.

That could be why the neighbour's pants are hung up too. Poo stains

Maybe they had baby poo explosions and have hung everything on the fence, poured over vinegar and then sprinkled with bicarb, hoping that the morning sun will clean them then rewash and dry normally. Or they are weird.

Belated snap!

Same, only we spelled it '"a'porth" since it's a shortening of "ha'penny worth". I think.

Oh come on. There’s nothing wrong with a little in-joke. Fosters a sense of community.

I put my washing out at night because the line is in the part of the garden that faces due east and only gets the morning sun. I don't want to wake up at six to put it out, so as long as the weather forecast is good, I put it out the night before and it's always dry by mid-morning. It may help that I live in Australia, but it works in the winter months too.

Me too. West Yorkshire and it was usually ‘Daft Apeth’.

A lesser mortal than me might be tempted to creep out after dark and ensure some extra fence dirt stains the clean washing, to dissuade them from this becoming a habit.

Not me, though. I’m much more sensible than that.

I haven't heard this in ages! Thank you! A much loved family phrase of old.

My family are all londoners and 'daft apeth' was commen growing up - maybe its a working class thing?

I grew up as part of the Sarf London Massif, and we used that saying.

Apparently I can't type common..