What's the worst damage your front and/or back garden has suffered from?
djcityboy
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Yesterday, a strong gust of wind knocked over my swinging garden chair, the washing line and one of the fence panels! :eek:
Many years before though, a strong gust of wind knocked over the climbing frame/slide! :eek:
Many years before though, a strong gust of wind knocked over the climbing frame/slide! :eek:
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The taxi firm had no option but to admit 100% liability; they eventually paid to have the rest of the privet hedge and fence removed and a new panelled fence put up. This was a great result for me because I had wanted to get rid of the hedge but couldn't afford to have it removed. It used to take hours to cut and clear up as it was about 30 feet long, 6 feet high and 3 feet across. The gap left by the taxi could not simply be replaced by new hedging.
The same happened to me in my last home. They trampled down my fence and made a right mess. I had planted bulbs a week or so before and didn't realise until they came up that the trampling meant they had spread them all about... Instead of a neat row either side of my garden path, they were dotted haphazardly all over the place!
Cows don't get in, but they eat all the plants off the back fence, so I can't grow any climbers there.
But the worst damage was done by the bl**dy builders I had in last year, who chucked stuff around willy-nilly, and trampled all over my precious plants in spite of my repeatedly asking/telling them not to.:mad::mad:
Oh, and the wind blew the shed door off, and the fence down. (In 2 seperate incidents).
With all the news lately about the cyclone and extreme flooding in Northern Australia and other areas, we shouldn't forget that the UK has also had its share of devastating weather in the last couple of weeks.
Below is a photo showing damage to a home from a recent storm that passed through the Berkshire area. Many a bingo game was played in this very spot before its untimely devastation. It really makes you cherish what you have and reminds us not to take life for granted.
http://tinypic.com/r/2cfbjo7/6
I thought this thread was about an entirely different type of front and back gardens.
People in <insert name of country> have far more inclement, garden-destroying weather than we do in the UK.
I've lived here 18 years, and TWICE in that time a car (not he same car!) has driven too fast up the road and gone straight instead of going round the bend, and drove through my front garden wall into my front garden.
Luckily each time it has been late at night and so no other vehicles involved, and amazingly no-one was seriously hurt.
Also lucky that I had a wall there, or they may have ploughed straight into the house.
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p.s. - Lads who made the bomb were just boys. They lost legs and hands and are maimed for life. They didn't know what they were doing or what for.
I'm still very scared. It was a horrible night for me.
A car crashed into a house in a town not far from me.
There was a long country road where cars often drove very fast then there were houses on a bend before most of the cars had slowed down to drive through the town.
I saw the house after it happened, it was a total mess. The speed limit on that road has now been changed and there are a lot of warning signs.
News story and picture of the house: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7863331.stm