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A sign!
This afternoon I had occasion to remonstrate with a gent who was attempting to bung a "For Sale" board in my front flower bed. He explained that he'd thought my flower bed, and indeed my kitchen window, belonged to the house next door.
I opined that it might be better if he were to make sure of these things before ramming large pieces of wood into people's gardens, especially as he'd squashed a clump of my grape hyacinths in the process.
He was vaguely apologetic but rather more concerned about where he could stick his sign. I bit my tongue and didn't offer any suggestions in that regard...
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I believe my first utterance may indeed have had an "oi!" in it though - I think it was something along the lines of "Oi! No! That's my garden!" shouted from the kitchen - which only served to confuse him, because he thought my kitchen was next door's kitchen.....