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Musings and Minor Incidents
13 years ago
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Exactly as the title reads. See a lot of funny stuff happens to me, not all of it amusing. I'll be trying different writing styles out whenever I can to keep the style fresh, but trust me: my day to day musings, as well as the minor incidents, might not always be for the faint of heart!
Here's looking at you,
BoiToy
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So anyway, I'm hardly what you'd call an avid gardener, but the other day I decided that enough was enough: Wulf needed to use the garden (well alright, our dogs wanted to use it too but she was pretty desperate) and none of the other tenants in our block of flats had touched the garden for well over a year. Hell, when we moved in over a year ago the garden was still in bad shape: there were brambles everywhere, knotweed all over the willow tree, a section of the fence was down, the hedges were overgrown and the grass was like... Well, the tall grass in Pokemon games (trust me, I went down there packing a few Pokeballs just in case)
Anyway, the brambles were so badly overgrown that I had to machete my way up the path to even reach the main section of garden. I was out there from 8am until 2pm clearing the pathway so I could actually walk from one end to the other.
Then for whatever reason I managed to machete myself in the back of the hand. Thankfully I managed to get it low enough that I didn't lop off a finger, and high enough that I missed the tendons. It went in so fast and just far enough that it didn't actually hurt! A trip to A&E later and there I was: wound super glued shut and a few butterfly stitches... Oh and a bloody sore hand!
Anyway, guess what happens in my absence?
My downstairs neighbours (a right couple of... Well, I HATE them for various reasons I'll go into at a later date), went out there, cut the grass with their lawnmower, put down ant poison and started going over the bits I had already done.
Now look, we have a kid and two dogs and they know that. So why in the hell put down ant poison? Ignorance, absolute ignorance. They leave the garden unattended for YEARS and only become interested when somebody else makes the effort. I'm thinking of digging pits, putting spikes at the bottom and covering them over just to make a point! Man that annoyed me. If they try to take credit for doing the garden I'll be furious.
Here's looking at you,
BoiToy
- - -
So anyway, I'm hardly what you'd call an avid gardener, but the other day I decided that enough was enough: Wulf needed to use the garden (well alright, our dogs wanted to use it too but she was pretty desperate) and none of the other tenants in our block of flats had touched the garden for well over a year. Hell, when we moved in over a year ago the garden was still in bad shape: there were brambles everywhere, knotweed all over the willow tree, a section of the fence was down, the hedges were overgrown and the grass was like... Well, the tall grass in Pokemon games (trust me, I went down there packing a few Pokeballs just in case)
Anyway, the brambles were so badly overgrown that I had to machete my way up the path to even reach the main section of garden. I was out there from 8am until 2pm clearing the pathway so I could actually walk from one end to the other.
Then for whatever reason I managed to machete myself in the back of the hand. Thankfully I managed to get it low enough that I didn't lop off a finger, and high enough that I missed the tendons. It went in so fast and just far enough that it didn't actually hurt! A trip to A&E later and there I was: wound super glued shut and a few butterfly stitches... Oh and a bloody sore hand!
Anyway, guess what happens in my absence?
My downstairs neighbours (a right couple of... Well, I HATE them for various reasons I'll go into at a later date), went out there, cut the grass with their lawnmower, put down ant poison and started going over the bits I had already done.
Now look, we have a kid and two dogs and they know that. So why in the hell put down ant poison? Ignorance, absolute ignorance. They leave the garden unattended for YEARS and only become interested when somebody else makes the effort. I'm thinking of digging pits, putting spikes at the bottom and covering them over just to make a point! Man that annoyed me. If they try to take credit for doing the garden I'll be furious.
