When we demolished the old extension at the back of the house to build a new one we found a mini underneath it - that is a car!!!
We have no idea what the story behind that was, I dread to think of all the combustible materials in it leaching into the ground :-o Needless to say we took it to the scrap yard.
I can't tell you how many animal bones we dug up when we were clearing the garden too. Almost 100 different pets as the house has been lived in since the 1930's.
We reburied all of them afterwards with due ceremony and put up a marker to remember them all. I'd like to think someone would do the same for my pets.
The new pet cemetery is at the bottom of the garden under the ash tree. Very peaceful and quiet, with four of my own down there.
it was common to bury stuff in the garden at one time. Never understood why until I thought about it. People had no money and no car but they did have a spade!
Loving reading this thread. I realise I am not alone in having "stuff" everywhere. Neglect is the new black??
We have been renovating an old house ( that's the Royal we - he does the work and I make tea) so all the bits get dumped in my garden, which we have been doing at the same time - a room renovation over winter and a bit of garden in the spring. I do the garden with the exception of the heavy building bits.
This is my gallery of shame - my garden is a U shape around the house - no part of that big U is spared in this shaming.
I'm astounded by the tarpulin with planting pockets!
You've done your very best Fay to hide stuff and make it respectable and that takes effort and determination which under normal circumstances is NOT A GOOD THING!
Take picture one as an example.Tidy piles of stone, a sink square to the path, a strategically placed plank and a brush hiding the gas bottles....
Picture two from a different angle and it seems the whole ensemble is hidden behind the brush.
Thankfully by picture three you're starting to redeem yourself. Dexion shelving at a jaunty angle and if it wasn't rusty the paint tins would slide off!! Dodgy looking bits of wood and an abandoned bucket ...much better.
The less said about picture four the better. Clearly on the wrong thread!
Then back in business. Some buckets full of broken bits of other bucket and the sun glinting off an idle incinerator!
I take it the parallel bars are nothing to do with house renovation and all to do with the new garden gym for Mr Fay?!?!
All in all, having seen other aspects of your delightful garden, a good effort! Well done.
I got a chlid's typewriter from Santa when I was 6 (my parents tried their best to make me a girl). It was so heavy my dad had to lift it onto the table for me. Ting.
I liked it because I could see all the mechanics of the thing and see how all the bits worked! Ting.
I tried to build one from my Mecanno set. Couldn't be done so I built a working windmill instead. Girl my a**e! Ting!
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When we demolished the old extension at the back of the house to build a new one we found a mini underneath it - that is a car!!!
We have no idea what the story behind that was, I dread to think of all the combustible materials in it leaching into the ground :-o Needless to say we took it to the scrap yard.
I can't tell you how many animal bones we dug up when we were clearing the garden too. Almost 100 different pets as the house has been lived in since the 1930's.
We reburied all of them afterwards with due ceremony and put up a marker to remember them all. I'd like to think someone would do the same for my pets.
The new pet cemetery is at the bottom of the garden under the ash tree. Very peaceful and quiet, with four of my own down there.
it was common to bury stuff in the garden at one time. Never understood why until I thought about it. People had no money and no car but they did have a spade!
Loving reading this thread. I realise I am not alone in having "stuff" everywhere. Neglect is the new black??
We have been renovating an old house ( that's the Royal we - he does the work and I make tea) so all the bits get dumped in my garden, which we have been doing at the same time - a room renovation over winter and a bit of garden in the spring. I do the garden with the exception of the heavy building bits.
This is my gallery of shame - my garden is a U shape around the house - no part of that big U is spared in this shaming.
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Welcome Fay. The pristine incinerator is a nice touch
Fay, that mess looks worryingly organised...
...but I suppose you probably need a bit of path for walking on! 
I'm astounded by the tarpulin with planting pockets!
You've done your very best Fay to hide stuff and make it respectable and that takes effort and determination which under normal circumstances is NOT A GOOD THING!
Take picture one as an example.Tidy piles of stone, a sink square to the path, a strategically placed plank and a brush hiding the gas bottles....
Picture two from a different angle and it seems the whole ensemble is hidden behind the brush.
Thankfully by picture three you're starting to redeem yourself. Dexion shelving at a jaunty angle and if it wasn't rusty the paint tins would slide off!! Dodgy looking bits of wood and an abandoned bucket ...much better.
The less said about picture four the better. Clearly on the wrong thread!
Then back in business. Some buckets full of broken bits of other bucket and the sun glinting off an idle incinerator!
I take it the parallel bars are nothing to do with house renovation and all to do with the new garden gym for Mr Fay?!?!
All in all, having seen other aspects of your delightful garden, a good effort! Well done.
No, no, no, muddle up.
Art installations do not count.
A typewriter. It just warms the cockles doesn't it? It's given me a warm n fuzzy Monday feeling.
Muddleup, I'm afraid it does look a bit like an art installation. In fact, it's better than some I have seen.
I got a chlid's typewriter from Santa when I was 6 (my parents tried their best to make me a girl). It was so heavy my dad had to lift it onto the table for me. Ting.
I liked it because I could see all the mechanics of the thing and see how all the bits worked! Ting.
I tried to build one from my Mecanno set. Couldn't be done so I built a working windmill instead. Girl my a**e! Ting!