Tell Whoever Buys It That the Posts Are Under the Rockery
Part five of five. They did not become friends. It is important to be honest about that, because the version where they do is not what happened.
Original fiction. Nothing escalates quite like a boundary dispute between two otherwise reasonable people.
Part five of five. They did not become friends. It is important to be honest about that, because the version where they do is not what happened.
Part four of five. The surveyor took an afternoon in both gardens and a morning at the land registry, and produced fourteen pages Colin read six times.
Part three of five. What the Wednesday arrangement actually was, and the year Colin decided to sell.
Part two of five. A hedge planted with intent, a shed eight centimetres from the line, and two hundred and twelve photographs of a parked vehicle.
Story Part one of five. After the storm, the new fence went back up eleven centimetres out. Colin measured it, then went round with a tea towel still on the go next door.