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GoS. THE SEQUEL. Just when you thought it would be safe to go down the end of the garden😱

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    @B3
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know it's totally against the principles of this thread, but you have to rescue the poor b****r.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I don’t have a dog in this fight. This is the best/worst I could do. I call it the builder’s yard; it’s behind the top summerhouse but it is reasonably orderly







    Or there’s this. The gardener has made a pile of forsythia prunings ready to go on the bonfire when the weather is good for nothing else. Look through the clippings and you might see a neat (‘fraid so) stack of roof tiles should we have the inclination to throw out a wing.





    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A good effort. Unfortunately, there's avery nice looking lawn.  Could assure us that it's really a patch of flat, greenish weeds?
    But I would say, that some of the most precious gems of detritus heaps are often hidden in a secluded corner of an otherwise pristine garden.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    A messy gardener is not allowed - though showing a distinct potential!
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Tsk tsk tsk M-U. Slates are a little bit too tidy. A more 'crazy paving' look might be required.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I think that's acceptable but best let @B3 make the final decision.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2019
    MU saw something very like your slate installation  at Kew but, admittedly, it wasn't quite so horizontal.
    I like it. It would look great if there was water running down it. You don't have a leaking tap you could direct perchance?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I've got a couple of taps outside. Admittedly they are still attached to a sink, but I'm sure a correctly applied hammer could resolve that and also achieve a decent state of leakiness. I've got some blue pipe too....?
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve got a hand basin, pedestal, loo and cistern buried in the garden. OH wasn’t going to pay £2.50 a piece at the tip so we brought it back home,  having been a grave digger in the past he had no trouble in digging a 4’ deep hole and smashing it up and burying it. 
    Shame I didn’t photograph it before as it sat there for quite a while. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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