5 or 6 years ago I found a mint condition cassette of Michael Jacksons Thriller album in a flowerbed.
@McRazz If the cassette is in good condition, I would ask auctioneers just out of curiosity depending when it was made. I could imagine that 1982 version could make some money. Internet says up to £250.
5 or 6 years ago I found a mint condition cassette of Michael Jacksons Thriller album in a flowerbed.
@McRazz If the cassette is in good condition, I would ask auctioneers just out of curiosity depending when it was made. I could imagine that 1982 version could make some money. Internet says up to £250.
Nice! I couldnt believe my luck really as it could have been any old cassette but it just so happens i think it's a pretty good album and it has an interesting story so I think I'll keep it!
Part of our garden used to be a boat yard so we are constantly digging up bits of rusty iron chain and tools. Also a few Victorian glass bottles and clay tobacco pipes.
I keep finding bones, particularly jaw bones with teeth. Not once or twice but loads! I’m hoping they belonged to sheep, but I’m not sure. I have little collections of them all over my woodland.
A couple of years ago I asked OH to start preparing a new bed I'd cleared of weeds and grass to make a rose and clematis border. It proved impossible to dig or rotavate because some kind soul had dug an earlier ditch there and filled it with all the terracotta roof tiles from a demolished barn that use dto occupy the centre of what is now our plot.
When planning and prepping a new rose garden on the other side of the house I ended up quarrying loads of stone, presumably buried walls. A lot of them have fossil imprints - clam shells mostly - but no fossils.
However, the weirdest thing was found in our Belgian garden - another ex farmhouse - where we hired a chap to come and scoop the former pasture about a bit to make a natural pond and then harrow the rest ready for sowing grass and making beds. One of the stones he had to remove from his machine turned out to be a WW2 landmine from when the Allies chased the Germans home going right past our front doorstep in their tanks which left tracks on the old, turn of the century cobbles.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Once bought a derelict house with a large garden to rescue, modernise and repair.
Garden was a jungle and during the clearing of the garden and landscaping of terracing etc etc i dug up........
Two horses heads, several skeletons of dogs. A grand piano and a motorcycle along with several bicycles. A safe (Empty!!), god knows how many sheets of corrugated roofing sheets. Too many cast iron fence posts and finials. £340 worth of scrap copper, brass and stainless steel. God knows how many nails!
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I ♥ my garden.
When planning and prepping a new rose garden on the other side of the house I ended up quarrying loads of stone, presumably buried walls. A lot of them have fossil imprints - clam shells mostly - but no fossils.
However, the weirdest thing was found in our Belgian garden - another ex farmhouse - where we hired a chap to come and scoop the former pasture about a bit to make a natural pond and then harrow the rest ready for sowing grass and making beds. One of the stones he had to remove from his machine turned out to be a WW2 landmine from when the Allies chased the Germans home going right past our front doorstep in their tanks which left tracks on the old, turn of the century cobbles.