I agree. There is something not quite right
Now, perhaps the neighbour paid for the tickets, then found she wasnāt able to use 'em and offered them to your friendsā¦ who knowsā¦
In the course of conversation, itās quite easy to misunderstandā¦ perhaps something along the lines ofā¦
Itās a wonderful social evening, blah blah blahā¦ Iāve got the tickets. They cost 150ā¬ and you simply must take themā¦(Iād love them not to be wastedā¦ ) youāll have a wonderful timeā¦ please do take the ticketsā¦ (please accept them ā¦)
(and your friends are thinkingā¦)
Oh drat, we donāt want to go but sheās paid for 'em already, so weāre stuckā¦ sheās absolutely insisting ā¦ weāll have to pay her.
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More than likely !
What about if visible only from your neighbourās terrace? Itās an idea for an SF outing, perhaps?
Iāve a very strong feeling Iād feel distinct sympathy for them by the end, it sounds like they may have borderline insufferable next door neighbours.
This is the whole reason I, like many on SF from what Iāve read over the years, bought a decent amount of land around the stone 4 walls I call home so as to not have next door neighbours in the traditional sense. I didnāt want some insufferable boor next door, and much more importantly to me I didnāt ever want to be considered the annoying insufferable boor next door by someone else.
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Perhaps people cannot afford those high walls onproperties and why would you want to blank everyone. This a simple question of how to deal with the situation not about what they should have done or what you did which in hindsight may or may not be correcyt
I think you misunderstood what I wrote. I actually have no walls at all around my perimeter. 2 sides have 4 ft wire fencing primarily to keep the cows safe from the road when the farmer wants to use the fields for his cattle, and the other two have trees or bushes, my nearest neighbours actually are the mayor and cantonniers who I always find it amusing are all literally next door to each other in our hameau rather than being spread out around the village or such, but theyāre at the other end of the road so none of us are on top of each otherā¦ metaphorically speaking of course 
Ok then, everyone should mind their own business and enjoy their life. Thatās how they should deal with it. Go out and ātouch grassā as the youngsters would say and stop making an issue where there is none. 
Good luck to all parties, sounds like theyāll need it.
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You are more than a little blunt. I was just asking for assistance
I think youāre probably right about people here. I imagine many of us were very pleased by the amount of land we could buy in comparison with the UK.
There is the rub! Land. Many selling up as cannot cope
When we bought 15 years ago we knew we would have to one day. But we werenāt ready for the bungalow on the lotissmemt next to the health centre! Having lived in tiny capital city centre places all our lives we wanted to experience another way of life for a bit. I donāt understand why people are disparaging about this?
We bought a big property, restored it and developed a business in it, and will sell eventually for probably about the same price as we bought it for. But so what, it will have been our home for X years.
And as for neighbours, our terrace is private, the rest is not and that doesnāt bother us. We like chatting to neighbours over the fence.
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Interesting. What if youāre inside your house ? I walk around naked inside the house (sorry if thatās too much 
) all the time, as thatās what Iāve always done. If someone complains about that, isnāt it really voyeurism on their part ?
No wonder you need underfloor heating
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You can do what you like inside I think as itās considered personal private space in a way that a garden open to the view is not.