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Falling Off the Garden Wall

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ExD Mon 13-Apr-20 10:51:34

My garden borders a lane much favoured by walkers, and people self isolating here in their holiday homes, and is bordered by a low wall with stone slabs along the top.
Children love to walk along the top and I don't mind at all as we have few children passing by in normal times.
But these are not normal times and the number of human traffic has increased to there being an almost continuous stream of walkers passing by. (Many, I'm sure, out here in the country in contravention of the new 'rules') OK, who can blame them as long as they don't let their dogs worry the livestock?
More and more fathers are lifting their little ones onto the wall to let them run and jump, and it is fun for them, but the slabs are coming loose and wobbly now.
My question is:- if one of those children falls off and is injured, am I liable for compensating the said family who are, to all intents and purposes, trespassing in my garden?

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Elegran Mon 13-Apr-20 21:48:14

If you are happy to be thought a miserable old biddy who hates children enjoying walking on your wall, then yours is the note to put up, Gabriella, but the OP is the one who would have to live with that reputation. She sounds a nice person who would normally smile at the children and the adult with them if she was in the front garden.

As the OP has watched the increasing number of fathers lifting their children up onto the wall, she is likely to see any further budding mountaineers and their doting daddies.

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