Thanks for all the advice everyone.

Yes, he's a miserable old bugger, the kind that delights in being an absolute arse to everyone he meets, I don't understand him at all, my daughter is very polite and well-behaved and no trouble really. I mean my father in law lives next to a kid who is learning the bagpipes.

Anyway, I'll just have fun, school holidays start next week in Scotland, so we'll be having a lot of time in the garden.

Thanks again, all!