Neighbours can be a great source of comfort. It's someone to have a chat to when you bump into them outside your home, or someone you can rely on to take in a parcel for you or borrow something off.
But when you live so close to someone it can be uncomfortable if they overstep the boundary.
One woman is being made to feel "very uncomfortable" due to her neighbour. She has put together a list of things the person next door does that makes her feel uneasy, including texting her a running commentary of what she is up to when she's in the garden.
Taking to popular parenting forum Mumsnet, the anonymous woman explained: " To begin with, they (singular) were friendly and it was nice to get to know them because they live next door. However as time as gone on, they've done things which make me very uncomfortable."
One of the things that annoys the woman is that the neighbour take spare wood from her garden and using it "without asking". They also "lie about things to deflect blame from themselves".
However, their behaviour goes even further when it comes to lack of privacy. According to the woman, the neighbour sends "invasive texts about what they can see in our garden and our living room".
They also text them a "commentary of us while we're in the garden", adding, "to be clear, they are not in the garden at the time".
According to the woman, they will text things like "good job on the tidying," "why have you moved the compost bins to hide the chickens" or "shouldn't you be sowing seeds now?".
The woman wants more privacy, and told the neighbour she wanted to put up a higher fence, which she said wouldn't be a "light issue" but "would mean they would no longer have free access to our garden or our animals". When she told her neighbour, they got "upset".
After a recent argument about poultry, the woman explained: " They sent a litany of insults to my husband and blamed me for everything, which include the fact that I'm cold and I'm like talking to a brick wall because I don't send long friendly text messages in reply to their seven messages they send a day nor do I give more than a cursory hello in the garden."
Fellow forum-users were very sympathetic to the woman, with one person saying it went beyond "annoying" and well into "creepy territory".
Another advised: "Block their number. Do the fence now, if you can't afford it this is definitely worth getting into debt for! They sound nuts."
A third added: "You can be friendly towards them but you need your space and they shouldn't have taken the wood without checking first."
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