For those of you who can remember the Esther Rantzen series "That's Life" many years ago.
I vividly remember a discussion on a topic about very strange rights of way, and residents inability to have the route changed.
I forget where it was in England, but this right of way went through this couples garden, past their patio lounge window, and out through a swing gate some yards away, through their laurel bushes.
They tried everything to have the right of way diverted, but because of the very nature of the pathway, the council simply refused to listen to their views.
The right of way was of long standing, and its was either the way they went about it, or simply because of the pressure of the local rights of way group, nothing was done.
Members of the public were mostly puzzled and confused when they saw they were interrupting this couples tea or evening telly, but the stalwarts and regulars, simply walked across this couples lawn in heavy boots.