I must be the only person in the world to get a letter from the local Council telling me that they had received a complaint about piles of newspaper and grass clippings in my yard and to clean them up. It took me quite some time to realise that my nutty neighbour had complained about my 'no-dig' gardening beds# (which she had told me that she didn't want me to plant things there next to the fence!) and that some idiot in the Council had actually written the letter without anybody bothering to visit the premises!


I'm not making this up you know - I'm not that creative!

# no dig garden beds - place newspapers on ground to exclude light and smother weeds - place 3-4 inches of mulch, grass clippings etc on top, water well.