Gardening - lawn mowing and weeding.

[Headgardener]

Why does she go to bed at 4pm surely she should be getting ready to go to work then?

 

[Saluki]

Of course it's not too late.
Can I ask if the lady is elderly, alone, of sound mind generally?

It must be really hard for you to keep your head together in a situation like that, deep breaths, keep smiling!

She is bonkers and about 48 years old. She works as a cleaner, likes watching Jeremy Kyle, lives alone with 4 cats. Poor thing has had hardly any education but choses not to try to get a better job than cleaning a boarding school at night. Used to be 5 cats but one disappeared over last Xmas. She rang the Housing Association and told them that our Saluki had eaten it. Our Saluki didn't eat it as he had been dead a fortnight before her cat ran away.
Her hobbies include whinging, gardening and getting falling down drunk on a Saturday, so drunk that she rarely gets up before 4pm on a Sunday evening just to go back to bed by 6pm ready for Monday night work starting at 2am.

 

[Saluki]

[QUOTE 3056174, member: 9609"]better luck with your next house, we had a problem neighbour many years ago and i hated the stress of it all, since then we have been very lucky and have had excellent neighbours,[/QUOTE]
First ever bad neighbour we have ever had, even when we were kids growing up.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

As a professional at this game...
I take great delight in 'firing' up of the machine I use at the earliest possible time(after 8am)...
just to wake the populace

 

[Dave 123]

She is bonkers and about 48 years old. She works as a cleaner, likes watching Jeremy Kyle, lives alone with 4 cats. Poor thing has had hardly any education but choses not to try to get a better job than cleaning a boarding school at night. Used to be 5 cats but one disappeared over last Xmas. She rang the Housing Association and told them that our Saluki had eaten it. Our Saluki didn't eat it as he had been dead a fortnight before her cat ran away.
Her hobbies include whinging, gardening and getting falling down drunk on a Saturday, so drunk that she rarely gets up before 4pm on a Sunday evening just to go back to bed by 6pm ready for Monday night work starting at 2am.

So can you not continually complain to the housing association?
Gather evidence with a go pro camera or such like, get the council & social services involved.
It's sad when these people are allowed to slowly fall apart. At what point do the authorities step in?
As ever they're allowed to create the crap, regardless of the difficulties the people near have from it.

 

[mrbikerboy73]

When her washing is out is a great time for a bonfire.

 

[vernon]

She's being utterly unreasonable. Have you thought of taking up the bagpipes.

I'll lend you mine....

 

[Gravity Aided]

Definitely sounds like a lost person, with nothing better to do than obsess about how you all are ruining her life. Unlike shoulbeinbed, who recommends the pipes, I would recommend the recorder.

 

[Saluki]

Definitely sounds like a lost person, with nothing better to do than obsess about how you all are ruining her life. Unlike shoulbeinbed, who recommends the pipes, I would recommend the recorder.

We have an electric guitar each, 3 acoustics between us and I am giving consideration to a Sax that I saw in the second hand shop at a very reasonable price. I used to play the Sax when I was at school. Just like a recorder but bigger, shinier and a lot more sexy.

Neighbour is a bully, plain and simple. It took us a while to realise it, actually it was people here to pointed it out, now we take no notice of her. Everything we do and say is 'unreasonable' and 'disturbs' her. We have repeatedly complained to the HA about her. We are going on the exchange list in a fortnight and will take the first exchange offered to us. We want to head South and semi retire.

 

[summerdays]

It's really hard when neighbours get you down, as your home is one place you hope to feel safe, secure and happy in. It is hard if she does work night shifts, but if she likes gardening and doesn't like you moving your lawn, have you thought about asking her to do it when you aren't in (And get rid of one chore for you)

 

[Saluki]

She loves to mow our lawn, even when it doesn't need doing. We'd rather that she didn't as she has been known to have a bonfire on the edge of our flower beds (her rubbish) as mowing our grass gives her the right to burn her stuff on our flower beds!

 

[Smurfy]

Our friend Mark suggested test mowing a lot of mowers and then buying the loudest one we could find. A fine plan but the petrol mowers were out of our budget.

Strimmers often make a very annoying high-pitched racket, and can be had quite cheaply. Do the entire lawn in slow motion with one of those, while wearing some discreet ear plugs

 

[Gravity Aided]

Sheep. Quiet, effective, somewhat haphazard, edible, produce wool. I see nothing but plusses

 

[tyred]

Try digging a 6' x 3' deep hole and then get her to try it out for size....

 

[colly]

That's what we thought but we were told off for talking at the unholy hour of 4pm the other night. We were told off for loading our bikes into the car at 4.38pm on Monday and told off for playing ball with our little dog in our garden at 4pm last night.

I'm sure you have already tried this but a small megaphone, turned up to maximum, held directly in front of her face, used when replying to these stupid complaints might let her realise just how bad things could be.
It sounds like she has some kind of mental issues.