Our Local British Tabloid

A British neighbor showed up to inform us that he tore down OUR post and chain that WE had strung across the public trail that goes through OUR property.

He said he just wanted to let us know that he didn't think it was right for us to try and close off the path. (Damn Americans, think they control everything.)

Trouble is, WE didn't put up the post and chain, and they weren't on OUR property. Hee, hee.

The Comte's handyman must have erected the impediments since they were on the Comte's property.

I have to side with the Comte on this one. The path has been recently frequented by gasoline motors and I'm sure the chain was there to ward them off. Walkers can just easily go under it. Horseback riders can go around it.

I wonder how many of our neighbors were appaled by the story of US chaining OUR path -- before the British neighbor found out we weren't the culprits.

I'm going to have to hire a PR agency to undo the ill-will he most likely spread.