camera problems

Not much has changed here. Still struggling to survive. Last 2 weeks have been dire but before that it wasnt looking too bad so no idea how I am really doing. This saturday we have a vegan fair in Brum. Its only £10 to do so you cant really do badly! That at least is hopeful. Several neighbours are trying to sell the bottom of their gardens. I dont want to - neither does M. After all the garden is the only reason for moving here and the house is pretty naff so again we are annoying them all cos there is about 10k each involved but for us the garden is worth much more and in the long term 10k would be spent really quick and we would have a rubbish garden again. The police are being very supportive since we are putting up security cameras and the neighbours have all complained to the parish council. In the end apparently it will be down to Daventry borough council to decide and we will probably be able to keep them by the sounds of it all. I spoke to the parish clerk who gave the impression they could do little about it really - neighbours that is. We will know in next couple of weeks. Having police to give mediation will help I think. All in all we are annoying all our neighbours! hey ho! They are currently acting very smug too since we couldnt get the cameras working so took them back to maplins - would never buy from maplins again. Their policy is to send them away to be fixed not to replace! I dont even want the money back just working kit and they have been very unreasonable. Anyway I think the neighbours believe we have been told to get rid when infact no decision is yet made! Nasty b1tch next door stood on back door step with phone to ear and talked very loudly which to be honest is not at all like her down the phone telling whoever that the cameras she had told them about were gone! I have doubts if there was even anyone on the end of the phone! The rest are also being very smug. still what is that saying? Something like he who laughs last laughs loudest? Cant quite remember now. Anyway we will have great fun replacing them in a couple of weeks! Not sure if I wrote about it but besides our sheds being robbed of everything worth anything we have also had our heating oil stolen from the tank at least twice hence we need the cameras to catch culprit! We have also been reported to the police for having pit bulls which we have not - they are most definitely bog standard mongos! thankfully police are not stupid and came round to check and believed us - well they could see what R&R are! Sort of long legged labradorish/collie-ish with a bit of staff but no where near enough to be called pitbulls! AND the wrong nose. Then we got a letter from the DSS saying M owed them 26 quid from 1990! In my experience you only get that kind of investigatin if someone reports you. We are not on benefits so they couldnt do anything else and 26 quid is hardly what you would call serious fraud especially when its so long agao. Its all cos I am a trader I am sure and nasty woman next door doesnt like living next door to and in same kind of house as a lowly factory worker - M! Snobby cow!!!! Course if they knew I was writing freelance for a magazine and also a part time A level chemistry teacher things might be different but its none of their business what I do for a living so I am not telling! No doubt about it though we are currently feeling somewhat like victims! What will hapen next I wonder?

councillor

The councillor came round yesterday. I was out but M was there. She has confirmed the neighbour cannot/ is not allowed to cut our hedge. They are going to put us in touch with someone to try and sort it out before its gets any worse. Thank goodness for that at least. All we want to do is live there and not have hassles. Hopefully the neighbour will decide to leave us in peace. I have a suspician she will not be happy tho. I think its some sort of mediation but if it enables us to all get along ( after all you dont have to LIKE your neighbours just be able to live along side of each other) then all will be fine. I am dreading her finding our we went to the local council tho. Councillor had a look at all of our garden and likes it even with it being messy and half finished so it cant be that bad whatever next door says. Thats a relief anyway cos you never do know what the council will say do you. Anyway hopefully this problem will get sorted. Also councillor has confirmed the neighbour has stolen one of our trees and part of our garden!! She planted this hedge the day after we moved in and I did think it was on our land but I am pretty easy going usually and didnt want the hassle but anyway she did steal our land. To be honest we cant be bothered with the hassle so long as she leaves our hedge alone but if she keeps up with this shes going to seriously find herself in it now. Anyway all we need to do is to wait a couple of years for her hedge to grow, remove our fence which keeps the dogs in and put up wirwe netting against the hedge she planted which is right on the boundary line and we get 99% of teh land back again. She can keep the tree. Its a leylandii and will be more hassle than its worth in a few years when folks make her get it cut down!

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!