To not give her £400?

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That is how much my neighbour is demanding for new glasses as she is claiming that the tree in our front garden 'attacked' her and knocked them off! Now the tree does hang over the pavement a bit but it is high up! I have sat watching people of all heights walk by without incident including dh who is over 6ft, a lot taller than her! I want to shove her glasses where the sun doesn't shine!

my glasses (non-diamond encrusted, but with special lenses) cost over £300 each, and the optician suggested having one pair of varifocals instead that would have come to over £700.

But I'm bloody well not taking them near any trees!

I don't know.We once lived in a house where a footpath ran along our back fence.We had a tree which overhung our 6ft fence and the council wrote to us to say if we didn't prune it we ran the risk of someone walking into it and sueing us.

They can't sue, well, not properly. It's called contributory negligence so any award will quite possibly be minimal, folk that walk into a lamp post can't sue as they should watch where they are going!