Bittova Rant

[Millymollymandy]

Will Dave do?

Well, it's good in a sense that she's blaming other people cos that takes the heat off you and anyone sensible now will know it wasn't your dog.

However it's not great having loony neighbours too close by. So - are these neighbours nearby or outback neighbours about 20kms away? Which would probably be a good thing!

[Muddypause]

Can you get in touch with this other neighbour and compare notes? I don't mean in the sense of ganging up and making an enemy of the accuser[1], but just so that you can acknowledge betwen each other that she is just a bit, err, 'quirky' in some respects. It might also take the wind out of any future unfounded accusations that might come your way.

Perhaps clue the cops in about this too, so that they know about her predilection to dish out accusations in this way.

Still, I bet the dog's happy it can be let off the chain now.

[1] Nothing worse than having an enemy as a neighbour - worth making some effort to avoid this, however 'quirky' they may be - you now have enough information to be more in control of the situation.

[Boots]

The way the farms are set up here, I very rarely see my neighbours. The one that is losing the plot lives right on (and I mean right on... about a foot off!) my back boundry. But between them and us is a lovely big 7 foot high wind break and a few goat pens.

So they can be as kooky as they want as long as they stay on their side of the boundary.

Got to admit, Muddy I did wonder if I should ring the copper, but he came from a town nearly two hours away and I never paid any attention to his name. The poor bugger on the phone would probably just think I was a nutter too.

I've never had a problem with them before but I am happy just doing my own thing. Am not into arguments or dramas and couldn't give two hoots about maintaining any sort of friendship with folks I rarely see anyway. I figure I don't need friends like that.

The girls soon struck up a friendship with the new neighbours kids down on the corner, so they have filled her in and I think both of us were just left shaking our heads and shrugging, I think. Tis all very odd.

[Wombat]

To paraphrase a cliche, you can choose your friends but you can't choose your neighbours..........(most of the time anyway!).

Nev

[ina]

Sorry I missed this when you first posted, Boots - but I hope things are now a bit better for all of you.

When I stayed in Australia, we had a German shepherd, too. The biggest sweetie you could think of, wouldn't have hurt a fly. (Was afraid of thunder, too - she always stuck her head under my duvet during a thunder storm...)

If that neighbours dog was old, it might even have died "of natural causes" and then been taken apart by birds/feral cats/dingoes! That would be difficult to prove, though, especially as they were in such a hurry to bury it.

[Stonehead]

The way the farms are set up here, I very rarely see my neighbours. The one that is losing the plot lives right on (and I mean right on... about a foot off!) my back boundry. But between them and us is a lovely big 7 foot high wind break and a few goat pens.

So they can be as kooky as they want as long as they stay on their side of the boundary.

Tell her there's a yara-ma-yha-who living in the trees. If she's as kooky as you say, she'll spend ages trying to find him!

Hope everything settles down quickly - I know what it's like to have dodgy neighbours. In my case, it was a mother and daughter who were, among other things, convinced builders working on my place were digging a tunnel into theirs!

Stonehead