ONE woman thought she had found that perfect way to avoid her nosy neighbour’s snooping, that is, until she returned from a holiday.
An anonymous woman has shared how she had grown a tree to restrict her nosy neighbour’s view of her garden, but when she arrived home from a holiday he had cut the tree so that he would be able to still look over at her.
Posting to Mumsnet, the woman wrote: “I'll start off by saying that I live in a really lovely close, where my neighbours are supportive & kind (I'm a recently divorced single mum).
“My next-door neighbours are generally really kind. Pop round to feed the cat when I'm away, put my bins out, help me with jobs I'm stuck with etc.
“However, Mr Neighbour is so unbelievably nosy. For example, when I was sunbathing on my trampoline he texted me to check I was ok as he had 'noticed' I'd been asleep for a while.”
She adds that both she and his wife have told him to stop nosing into her garden from the upstairs spare bedroom window.
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Continuing, she writes: “I have a tree that I'm growing to try to mask his view. I was away for a few days over Christmas and having come home, I see it's been cut to the level of the top of the 6ft fence.
"It's not a massive tree but it will help when (if it ever is allowed) to grow.”
She then asks fellow Mumsnet users for advice on how to deal with this situation.
One user responded with: “Is the tree in your garden? He can't trim a tree in your garden, only trim overhanging branches from your tree across the boundary line!!
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"If he has trimmed the top, I would be going round telling him he needed to buy me a new – taller – tree seeing as he wilfully damaged your one!!!”
Another wrote: “I would simply ask why he has cut your tree. Then tell them it’s growing so you don’t want it cut in the future."
“What about going round and saying something like ‘I know you keep a bit of an eye on my garden when I'm not there and I wondered if you'd seen anyone suspicious over Christmas.
"My new tree's been vandalised and I'm thinking about letting the police know’” suggested a third.
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Others suggested that the mum find someone new to feed the cat and help her out as he sounds like a bit of a peeping tom, rather than just a simple nosy neighbour.
Similarly, one commenter wrote: “I would go to his wife and tell her if it doesn't stop you'll need to look at reporting him for harassment/stalking behaviour.”
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