Neighbours washing - diagram included!

[Timetogetgone]

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 do it sometimes because we’re a family of 7 so have lots to get through and it just makes sense to do this! Really don’t see an issue with it.

Totally aside from the nuttiness of hanging laundry on the fence, the bird poo!!! Who wants poo on their clean laundry? I bet it's heavily weaponised incompetence. I hope the wife yells at him and makes him redo the washing himself.

I’m British as far back as I know and I put the washing out at night as I don’t have time in the morning before I leave for work, and I can’t afford to miss a good drying day.

Ha'p'orth = a halfpennyworth which is how people used to buy food etc that was weighed out (you could buy by weight but it was common to ask for the amount you wanted to spend).
I've no idea why people use it to apply to people (maybe it's a small amount so slightly derogatory?) but daft ha'p'orth, mucky ha'p'orth etc were common criticisms when I was growing up (north west). Used in regions where people tend to drop h's hence people hear it as apeth

I hung my washing out last night and it's nearly dry this morning so I don't have to look at it when we're sat in the garden. MN is very weird about washing getting darked on.

You flicked someone’s washing on the ground rather than have a simple conversation?

Surely not.

I don’t mind washing being out overnight it’s the over the fence that’s gross.

I’ve often got washing out on the lines overnight. Like a pp said the change in temp or the huge spider dongs slap the creases out.

Also where do people live that spiders don’t come out in the day time as well 😅

I agree - it sounds spectacularly mean and unnecessarily provoking.

The poster felt the need to tell us the neighbours were Pakistani

Clearly an utter twat in every facet of life

They will learn their lesson. Presumably you can only see the pegs and the top of the clothing, with the rest hanging on their side. Very odd behaviour.

I hung my washing on the line last night, spider willies don’t scare me HOWEVER, I went outside to collect it this morning and a snail has crawled up from my patio table and gone to town all over my scrubs I’m extra cross because I finished all the coloured washing and now I have a random red scrub top with snail goo all over it that I refuse to wash on its own!

My mum would say it if I’d said or done something silly. It’s an affectionate term though. ‘you daft apeth’ no idea why it’s used in my family as we are not from Yorkshire where I think it originated from.

YABU for saying the weather is "lush".

Rinse under the tap and hang out again.

You tell that to the Spiders

Ooh that’s taken me back. Hadn’t heard that term in years! 😁

My next door neighbour also uses our joint fence to hang her washing. The thing is she's lived their 20 years and I can't understand why she's never got a washing line. She could have one of those retractable ones if she doesn't want it there permanently.

'T bother me but I have to be careful when I water the plants not to soak her washing.

A lot of words for a minor issue. think ‘neighbour is hanging washing out on joint fence’ would have sufficed.

I wouldn’t care if they did this.

Not heard that for a very long time. It is from halfpennyworth (h'porth). 😂

My Indian NDN used to drape her washing over our wooden fence. Looked terrible and not good for the fence.

I asked her to stop doing it (my fence) and pointed out her washing line and showed her my pegs.

She nodded but a day or so later there was more washing on the fence.

So I pushed it off into her garden.

And again another day.

Then she bought some pegs and started using her line.

My neighbours have done multiple things which move our relationship beyond the ‘simple conversation’ level. One incident included using unprofessional builders who tipped an entire chimney nearly onto my child’s head in our garden.

Sort of related, possibly just West Riding:

Anyone else remember asking for “an apeth of kali”?

I think I would splash the clothes hanging on your side with dirty water 🤣🤣🤣

Yay! Lots of fellow “apeth/aporth” memories. I am also a born and bred Sarf Lundener. My Nan and Mum would use apeth regularly. You could be a filthy apeth, daft apeth, cheeky apeth, all very affectionate and said in jest.

So, for example, in the summer when we had been playing outside all day with friends, we would come home and mum would laughingly call us “filthy apeths”.

Any updates on the washing @Timetogetgone?

Ha! Was only telling my DD about that thread last night as I was getting the washing in at 9.30pm.

She looked at me like this 🙄🤔