Environmental vandal (mother in law rant)

[spandit]

About 4 years ago I planted a hawthorn hedge along our field up to the gate, to stop people coming up the drive and going in. We've since put gates in further down the drive and my mother in law, who unfortunately lives with us, is complaining the hedge ruins her view (of another hedge). She is adamant that it will be grubbed up (I've managed to delay it until the winter but she's frantic to get rid of it, out of spite, largely). I've even checked with the council as I'd read that hedges bordering fields were protected but sadly they don't have a problem with it being removed. Just makes me so effing angry that my hard work and expense are going to be destroyed so she can look at more of the field than she can already see.

 

 

I won't even post pictures of what she's done to the garden (we bought the house off a florist and it was stunning, now it looks as if ISIS have paid a visit) and I've lost count of the number of mature shrubs she's hacked down.

 

Just having a rant. Sorry.

 

[Steve Bullman]

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

[Bunzena]

Get a mate that can keep a straight face to put on a suit and a HiVis and arrive at the house with a clipboard.  Tell the MiL he's from the council.

 

Get him to 'tut' and suck on his teeth whilst exclaiming there's an HPO on the Hedge.  Damaging it comes with a hefty fine.

 

He's sorry - but nothing doing.

 

It'll cost you a few beers.  If the MiL finds out - just be as angry about being conned as she was.

[eggsarascal]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

McGuire! I didn't think you were old enough to remember that.

Edited October 19, 2018 by eggsarascal

[Mark Bolam]

Is she going to do the work herself?

[Mark J]

Plant some leylandii behind it for good measure.

[spandit]

42 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is she going to do the work herself?

She has a father and son team who take her money for not doing very much so they'd do it or she'd hack it apart with various G-Tec electric tools. We live in an 1870 farmhouse and I'm convinced she'd put astroturf down if she could to match the plastic flowers she's put in to replace the beautiful old lavender that was growing several feet up the well

[eggsarascal]

 Is it her house?

[spandit]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

 Is it her house?

Legally no (for tax reasons) but morally she has a stake and tends to just do things whilst I'm away.

[Mark J]

4 minutes ago, spandit said:

Legally no (for tax reasons) but morally she has a stake and tends to just do things whilst I'm away.

Tell her that if she knacks your hedge you'll be morally obliged to throw her out.