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Need help re neighbours, who are causing me problems....it's not me!

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AlieOxon Thu 11-Oct-12 11:53:31

I have ivy growing into my roof from the next door garden. I say garden - it's a wilderness. The ivy is all over their roof, but that's their concern.
Everything there has not been touched in about five years.

My gardener has had go from a ladder on my side, but hasn't managed to reach the stems that go to the roof. He has cleared the ivy on my wall. And a bit further, which I didn't ask him to do but will delay its growing back.

Now the additional problem. This couple next door are so reclusive they don't answer their door and haven't answered my recent notes re the ivy. I haven't seen either of them for about three months....this is a source of worry sometimes, but she has put washing out of the window - hung on the gutter (!) recently so I know they are alive!

I offered for my gardener to go round and sort it. No response.
This is preventing me from getting all my gutters fixed.

I was going to try the CAB, but have not managed to get to talk to them, and their system seems much less user-friendly than it was a few years ago...
any ideas please?

AlieOxon Wed 14-Nov-12 20:48:21

anno Your pm doesn't seem to have got to me....I can guess however the general gist of it!

FlicketyB Fri 16-Nov-12 09:16:14

DD's problem was a very small one. Alie sounds as if she would need a tactical nuclear weapon to clear it all, and if she just did the bit by her house it would look a bit suspicious.

AlieOxon Tue 20-Nov-12 11:50:21

My small weapon - my little gardener man - has quite openly got up a ladder yesterday, next to their house, but on mine, and reached over to carve (literally, with a hoe) the ivy off the wall, cutting all the stems from where it has got into my roof!

And all they did was to close their curtains.
Well, at least that bit of ivy should die.

Also, the boss man from environmental health arrived with a colleague and I caught them coming away from next door having got no answer there. So (before the ivy got cut) I let them through into my back to see what the previous woman never saw because I was out.
They took their own pictures of the back view of my house and next door, and the inside of their garden wilderness, full of inflammable wood etc.
So now I will see what happens next.

glammanana Tue 20-Nov-12 12:49:01

Well done on the pruning by your gardener Alie maybe you will get some more help now the EV people have some more pictures of the rear of your property.We could always under cover of darkness gather us GNers together to come on a night patrol armed with the equipment to cut the dreaded stuff down for you,then cross our fingers and deny all knowledge.

Nanadog Tue 20-Nov-12 12:52:39

Already suggested this glamma see post on previous page .... I'm up for it if you are?

AlieOxon Tue 20-Nov-12 14:01:02

Bring 12 skips then!

glammanana Tue 20-Nov-12 18:01:29

So sorry nanadog must have slipped past me when I was browsing, I am always up for a good bit of espianage under cover of balaclava's and night vision glasses.

AlieOxon Tue 20-Nov-12 18:51:14

Ok you are bringing the skips then? I will knit balaclavas and get the night glasses....are those the ones that give you reflective eyes? Oo-er!

Ana Tue 20-Nov-12 18:55:48

Well, you could just leave it piled up in their garden. They might not even notice....grin

AlieOxon Tue 20-Nov-12 19:41:40

That would make the possible bonfire worse! There's enough inflammable stuff there already.....

FlicketyB Tue 20-Nov-12 19:53:08

Here's another volunteer! Me, my secataurs and little bottle of lethal brush killer, he he

AlieOxon Tue 20-Nov-12 21:12:13

That's four of us, any more? Bring your own ladder too.....

london Tue 20-Nov-12 21:21:07

alieoxon add me then smile

Ella46 Tue 20-Nov-12 22:01:27

I'll come along with my big loppers! Very therapeutic! [sp?]

AlieOxon Wed 21-Nov-12 10:12:52

Six - great! Anyone got any soot?.........I'm busy knitting!

Nanadog Wed 21-Nov-12 18:00:49

Ok .. Saturday night, midnight, allieoxen's I'll bring the flame thrower grin

annodomini Wed 21-Nov-12 18:23:41

I have two GSs in Didcot who have destructive tendencies. I am sure their parents would hire them out.grin

AlieOxon Thu 22-Nov-12 12:04:12

Bring 'em on!

AlieOxon Thu 22-Nov-12 19:40:12

"With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal
In silence dread, our cautious way we feel
No sound at all, we never speak a word
A fly's footfall would be distinctly heard!"

Ella46 Thu 22-Nov-12 19:47:15

No chance of us lot not speaking a word! grin

AlieOxon Thu 22-Nov-12 21:19:22

.....sung at the tops of our voices of course

FlicketyB Fri 23-Nov-12 17:23:54

giggling insanely

AlieOxon Fri 23-Nov-12 21:21:20

But absolutely invisible.

The skips I gather will be arriving tomorrow.....by HGB. (Broomstick, of course.)
I'm negotiating the loan of Santa's sleigh, since he doesn't need it yet, to collect everyone!

glassortwo Fri 23-Nov-12 21:25:51

I have a blow torch if it would help grin

annodomini Fri 23-Nov-12 21:50:35

Heavy duty (and rather heavy) telescopic pruners!