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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Spent this weekend clearing the wreckage that purported to be a garden fence until the heavy winds hit over the last month or so. Surreptitiously hiding behind overgrown ivy, honeysuckle and climbing hydrangeas it looks you into a false sense of security. Once blown down by the wind the aftermath is more like the nightmares caused as a child by one of Grimm's fairy tales. With hairy ivy trunks the size of small trees, threatening to envelop and bind you as it had bound the poor fence panels against their will. Thrusting the hairy stems through the cracks between the timber planks making it impossible to remove them with ease. Hacking, lopping, sawing and beating them with mallets and hammers didn't daunt these archaic beastly plants as they seemed to fight back at every move. Eventually after hours of toil and sweat they were removed along with the pillaged panels and planks and whisked away in the back of my car or should I say motorisrd gareden skip. Step one completed....step two in a bit....
Are their any jobs you wished you hadn't started but once you have started you will not be beaten until they are finished?  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"25 plus bras
All with matching knickers
Plus spares 
Don't get me started on shoes lol "
Were you clearing them out or just tidying and sorting them? |
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over a year ago
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"I've had to dig deep to find some spring suitable shoes and boots and clothes for work...
Couldn't face putting all the winter stuff away quite yet...."
At a bit early for that palaver Ne'er cast a clout 'til May is out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"25 plus bras
All with matching knickers
Plus spares
Don't get me started on shoes lol
Were you clearing them out or just tidying and sorting them? "
All of the above  |
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over a year ago
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Stripped out kitchen.........last summer,glad I've mostly been in hotels working away since,or maybe should e worked local n just got on with it......nah |
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over a year ago
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"Stripped out kitchen.........last summer,glad I've mostly been in hotels working away since,or maybe should e worked local n just got on with it......nah "
I have an incentive to get the fences up...need privacy for naked sunbathing
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Taking all my nets down at once and starting the cleaning of the windows. Two hours in,totally shattered and not even half done. I'll own up to putting nets back up an uncleaned window and going back to it the next day. |
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"Taking all my nets down at once and starting the cleaning of the windows. Two hours in,totally shattered and not even half done. I'll own up to putting nets back up an uncleaned window and going back to it the next day. "
Gave up on nets years ago. Just dust gathering frilly things. Cleaning the windows - now that is a thankless task. No sooner done a bird shits on them |
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"25 plus bras
All with matching knickers
Plus spares
Don't get me started on shoes lol "
Is that all?
Bestie just had a "mini-clearout"....
38 pairs went to the charity shops.. (26 of which were brand new)
over 50 still in the wardrobe
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So onto episode 2. With garden detritus cleared I move onto slotting 6" fence panels into the slots created by existing concrete posts. "Can't be too difficult  " Methinks.
Well f**k my old brown boots I kid you not, it was fookin impossible. With the help of my 6'1" son I thought this would be a simple task. Oh no! The neighbours fookin tree roots had conspired to move the immovable concrete posts so none of the panels fit..
There we were with 6' panels waving in the air above our heads only to find only one out of 6 would fit
By this time my arms are falling off and I've turned the air blue with expletives....
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over a year ago
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"Make up drawer. It needs a sort but took me a solid 5 hours last time (although I did keep getting distracted by lipsticks I'd forgotten about). "
For some reason that has given me an ear worm...
"If you like a lot of lipstick on your dipstick join our club" |
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