obnoxious neighbours

Well after we did the market yesterday we were pretty tired and just slobbed. It was a good day tho. Anyway this morning I went up the garden with my hounds trying to trip me up inbetween wrestling with each other - they are very active looney dogs believe me. Anyway I realised next door neighbour - the nosey one!!!- has yet again cut teh top off our hedge. Cheeky or what. So checked the time........well it is sunday..........and its 10:30 am so decided to go and tell her she has to stop this since shes ruining the look of our garden and it IS our hedge not hers. Anyway knocked on door and promise you I really did not shout but she did. Virtually strainght away. Apparently she works for a solicitor so I dont have a leg to stand on and she will cut my garden back when ever she feels like it. Then she shouts in my face Your garden is a MESS. the mess bit being shouted far to close to me. Very rude. Then I am told we are not good enough to be her neighbours. Who does she think she is. Honestly. So now we have to either accept her bullying us, cos bullying this certainly is, or see a solictor. Trouble is aside from the money aspects cos in the end its our garden and our land and we will afford it if we have to, but really if we go down this route I dont ever see us even getting along with this woman. Well personally I dont need to like my neighbour - tho in last house they were lovely really, but it would be good to just be able to live in peace with her if you see what I mean. And if we go and get solicitors involved I dont think even 10 years down the line we will be able to do that. She does have a point. The garden is a mess. Tho the hedge was fine till she touched in. Our efforts at demolishing the huge sheds have not helped the way the garden looks right now but it will get better and considering when we moved in it was full of rusty metal and rubbish everywhere which took us 2 skips to clear, I think shes beiong really nasty. It isnt that bad either. Its just she wants a wastleland with block paving and we want wildlife friendly hedging and arches made of trees - thats what we have. I will try to take some piccies to post cos really our garden is beautiful. Tho maybe not to block paving loving city types! She was scared of teh guy who used to own our house ( a big biker type) and we are just ordinary folk. She wont get away with this tho cos I wont be bullied!