When I got home this afternoon there was a new fence in the place where previously there had only been a very old fence. I had been meaning to talk to my neighbour about doing this. As it happens, they had started talking to a builder, who’d had a cancellation on another job and was available to start straight away. They couldn’t contact me in time, so he came round during the day and talked to Karen, who correctly decided to let him on to the property. All I had to do was pop around to the neighbours and offer them what I thought was a reasonable share of the cost.
It’s a nice fence, and I seem to have acquired a ten centimetre strip of extra garden along that side of the property.