While the legal principle may be sound, a couple of paths of disputed age and some "summer garden parties" don't seem sufficient to fulfill the terms for adverse possession. How open and notorious can the use be if the landowners don't notice it during years of walking past and actively maintaining the land? Perhaps there are elements not being reported, but it seems like a shaky case.

When I saw the "magnetic nail polish" headline my first thought was that someone had developed nail polish with little bits of rare-earth magnets in it that would let you pick up paperclips and other small metal objects with your fingernails.

This is cool, but it's just not quite the same...