Asking here because Gardening tends to be populated by reasonable people as opposed to the sometimes bizarrely aggressive folk on the rest of MN.
I have a relatively small garden and live in a semi rural setting in a group of bungalows.
The end of my garden adjoins a neighbouring garden with theirs at a right angle to mine so side on.
Beyond their garden is woods so I have a lovely view or at least I did.
Since January 1st this neighbour has leant a twenty foot plus ladder against their fence on the opposite side of their garden and this now completely dominates my view.
It might sound like nothing and of course in the scheme of life it is but I am pretty much housebound due to disability and my garden is one of my few remaining pleasures.
I look out on it from my bed, where due to chronic ill health I have to spend a lot of my time, and now all that draws the eye is this blimmin shimmering aluminium tower!
I have tried, and am trying, to ignore it but it is driving me mad.
I only know these neighbours very slightly having helped the wife look for her cat a while ago but even then she is not the warm and chatty type so I am really unsure if I could ask if it was at all possible to move the ladder, and unlike permanent structures I think I probably don’t have any real right to object so it would be at their discretion.
I am sure they have no idea that this might be upsetting to me although they do have form for being generally inconsiderate both to me and others but it isn’t intentional. They just don’t seem to think about their neighbours much.
I appreciate some people might just be able to go round and ask them to move it but to me the prospect of that is awful as the last thing I need is any conflict with neighbours.
They have plenty of storage so it isn’t that which is the problem and they aren’t doing any work so I have no idea why this ladder seems to have become a fixture.
No way I can arrange anything to screen it from my side due to the sheer size.
Any helpful ideas at all please?