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Time has been spent out in the garage again. After the massive clear out we've already done, there isn't a great deal left to do but I knew I needed to do one last sweep through Christmas & Crafts. We have another appointment at the dump on Saturday, but we are at the point where so much has already gone, there isn't a lot more to get rid of.
That said, I've found a decent glut of bits and pieces, and I feel certain that this will be our last visit for a while.
Next week I'll do a 'before & after' post showing just how much the garage has changed.
This week Violet and I have spent quite a bit of time in there playing on the arcade machine, something we haven't done for years. Before it felt stuffy and as if we were drowning in "stuff", now there is room to move and room to breathe.
It's enjoyable spending time in there.
This is the full extent of my autumn/halloween decor.
Enough to add a seasonal touch, but not so much I have box upon box of it which is how it was before. This is enough.
I'm going to use the little glass pumpkin lanterns in the garden this year.

As I'd been busy my plan was to leave a blog post until tomorrow, welcome in the new month even though I'm nervous for it this year. But I don't want to start September off with a moany post, so I'm shoehorning it in now. Please bear with me.
At the weekend when we took down the Fairy Tower, I said that we'd used our own compost to build up the soil level that had been beneath it. The compost bins live down one side of the house, it's just a little alleyway if you will, we had a gate put on it last year to hide the area and stop the wind whipping through there. After cutting the creeper on the side of the house and using the compost, Bill tidied the area and shut the gate. On Monday he asked me if I'd dumped any flowers down there. I thought about it and said that yes, I'd put some faded gladioli flowers on the compost recently. He said no, it wasn't that and could I take a look.

Immediately I knew this was not my doing, I wouldn't dump foliage and flowers here when the compost heap was just beyond it. And, I don't care for marigolds, so where had they come from? ... Next door. They have lots of orange and yellow flowers in their garden, you can see them through the gaps in the fence. The lunatic woman next door had dumped her garden crap over the fence. Something told me to be careful as there might be something sharp hidden in it, so I carefully scooped it up and sure enough, thorny rose stems were nestled underneath. Words fail me. Why? Just why? What is the point? I know you're not meant to say such things, but I honestly think there is something very wrong with the mental health of this woman. It is not normal behaviour.
I marched around to the front garden, opened their garden recycling bin and shoved the mess in there. Then came back round and scooped up every last flower head left behind and chucked them back over the fence. I was furious. We have done nothing to deserve her spite and stupid stuff like this - and not forgetting how she stole my Amazon order, this sort of rubbish confirms that she did it deliberately.
Long story short, on Tuesday I saw the husband, who despite everything I still like and get on with. I told him what I'd found he said 'oh she wouldn't do that', which made me a little bit angry. I told him I wasn't a liar, and taking a leaf out of her book had taken a photo which I showed him. The look on his face said it all, he had no idea and was embarrassed when he clearly saw the flowers came from their garden. Amongst other things I said I didn't want an apology/to see her face/to hear her/for her to look at me/her appear on my doorstep or for her to glower at Bill again when he reverses into our drive at the end of the working day. I don't want anything to do with her, but most of all I don't want her shit over our fence, or for her to try to bully us in our own home. I said it made me nervous to leave the house because what will I find when I return home? He looked me in the eye and said 'nothing, don't worry about that'. But I do. She is not right. I explained that I haven't brought their bins in as I would normally as I didn't want to go near her car. Basically I don't trust her, I know she's a liar, and I wouldn't put it past her to scratch her car and blame me with the wheelie bin, so I've stopped taking it in for them. He said that he didn't want us to fall out, and I reiterated that Bill and I didn't consider ourselves to have fallen out with him. There is no going back with her, she's a moron, we want nothing to do with her. I let him know that us emptying the garage to enable cars to be parked inside and the drive clear when work was going on had nothing to do with respect, and everything to do with being able to avoid having to have anything to do with her.
This all stems from when we had the kitchen done she declared she couldn't get out of her drive, even her husband told me 'she wasn't blocked in'. No. No she wasn't, because we made sure all the trade knew not to do that right from the start. She just wanted to be difficult. She's done other little things that I haven't mentioned here but I've noticed and documented. The woman is a vindictive and deranged idiot. She has issues and she seems to think it's ok to take them out on us. But it's not. I've already investigated and know what the next step will be, in the meantime I'm taking photos and keeping records. It is boring, tedious and exhausting. She is so boring, she bores me completely. And actually she is bored, she has too much time on her hands and nothing to do in her life, but she needs to get a better hobby than one that's going to land her in trouble.

We can really do without this crap. As of tomorrow Bill starts taking medication for a health issue. It's serious and we are focused on that. I don't need some berk who thinks she can bully people in their own homes making life harder, it's hard enough as it is. People are dying in the world, starving, worried about how they will heat their homes or feed their families, and this complete clown is harbouring spite and hate towards us because in her eyes she was 'blocked in' her driveway in June. Give me strength.
Now I've got it off my chest, I can start with less moany posts tomorrow.