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.

I always hang my washing out overnight. The change in temperature knocks the creases out (unless it’s the spiders rubbing their willies on it during the darking that does it). Saves loads of time and effort in having to iron stuff.

That's quite a statement. But given you don't think the thought of spiders rubbing their willies on washing is funny, when it just is, I think you're on a wind up (or just having a bad day, in which case, I hope it improves)!

West Riding (now called South Yorkshire) and I remember soft apeth.

I only learned last year to hang my washing out at night, having read about it on MN. It makes me feel very virtuous when I get up late the next morning and it’s already almost dry. I only do this when the weather forecast says no rain for several days in a row.

Of course it isn't. It's a serious problem.

I’m from the Midlands and yes daft apeth

Firstly… this is so not in their interests given all they are doing is making clean clothes dirty!

secondly… how long have you been neighbours with them?

I peg my washing out at night. Its one less job to do in a morning, but on a washing line.

My neighbours used to put their washing on my fence when I moved in. I had to have a word as the constantly wet washing was rotting the fence. Plus its a fence its dirty, and I dont want their washing in my garden.

My dramatic 7 year old nephew has just wandered in to the thread I see

Same. But the sun is quite fierce here in summer.

Due to climate change it is getting increasingly hot in summer here in SE England! We are in a heatwave now.
I was in NZ in February 2.5 years ago. The weather in the north Island wasn’t great.

What does it translate too. Never heard it before.

Midlander here. Daft h'a'porth was my Dad's favourite gentle insult.

I'd push it back into their garden, like as though the wind blew it off! That's gross have they not got a line of their own

Spider Willy’s and bird poo

gonna need another wash

I left washing out (on the line) last night, it’ll be dry now,and I’ll risk the spiders. 😁I can see a neighbour over the back has done the same. When we first moved to Yorkshire 50 years ago, we lived in a pretty multicultural area. Our neighbour there dried her washing on a couple of bushes in her yard. I used the laundrette, we were far too poor to own a washing machine.

I saw a lot of washing out on fences and other things in rural India a while ago.

This is SO rank. Yuk

Yeah, we all said that in London, as you’ve posted.

I'd be shoving them back over the fence too.

My brother in South Africa uses the net on the tennis court as the washing line.

Their spiders are massive <shudders>.

It’s short for "you daft halfpennyworth" a means, well, you’re daft. See also: soft ha’porth.

My (Pakistani) neighbours did this. It’s a high fence and I have a nice garden so I was very annoyed. I flicked them all off back into their garden. I assume it’s cultural. They never did it again.

Spiders, Splinters & bird shit pants... lovely!

😆 Thanks, this has given DH and me a lovely laugh and start to the weekend. Off to pop some washing in now and will be reviving the phrase silly apeth.
Is the washing still on the fence OP?

This happened to me once with a previous neighbour. They didn’t have a washing line so took to draping their washing over the fence. It was very odd because like other posters say, the fences are not hygienic, mine is a spider haven and she hadn’t accounted for the fact that I had a standing planter below the fence so one of her jumpers got quite muddy.

I hate to admit that I’ve turned into a boundary watching petty person. I get irate when people do things that cross over into someone’s garden. One of the neighbours behind us has a tree that is maybe 2 ft away from their boundary wall. A neighbour that backs on to their garden, has climbed up and drilled in to their tree and attached their washing line to it! If it was my tree, I’d be snipping that line when they have a full line of washing on it.