Does your partner fill your garden with junk?

Eichhörnchen · 08-18-18, 02:22 PM

My wife has a thing about stuffing every available space in our garden with pot plants and ornaments (mostly frogs and owls)

This means that any time I have to do an important man-job, like rodding the drains or cutting the grass, I have to shift dozens of bloody pots and concrete animals first

As if that weren't bad enough, I'm forever falling over the damned things

Does anyone else prefer an uncluttered garden?

Aktungbby · 08-18-18, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

My wife has a thing about stuffing every available space in our garden with pot plants and ornaments (mostly frogs and owls)

This means that any time I have to do an important man-job, like rodding the drains or cutting the grass, I have to shift dozens of bloody pots and concrete animals first

As if that weren't bad enough, I'm forever falling over the damned things

Does anyone else prefer an uncluttered garden?

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STEED · 08-18-18, 05:11 PM

Buy a shotgun and have a blast.

Eichhörnchen · 08-18-18, 05:19 PM

That last squirrel looks like he's praying, too

Jimbuna · 08-19-18, 07:39 AM

Nearly thirty pots and a dozen or so concrete animals at the rear but most importantly....not a blade of grass.

Commander Wallace · 08-19-18, 08:55 AM

I think you should look at this situation from another perspective, Eichhornchen. Just pave over the garden or lay concrete and you can either put up portable basketball stands with nets so you can play basketball. you could also use it as a squash court or play deck hockey on it. I'm sure there are other things you could do as well.

Now you have a nice recreation area.

Eichhörnchen · 08-19-18, 09:56 AM

Oh yeah... then when I fell over her pots I'd smash my teeth in

Aktungbby · 08-19-18, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by CW

Just pave over the garden or lay concrete and you can either put up portable basketball stands with nets so you can play basketball. you could also use it as a squash court or play deck hockey on it.

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Originally Posted by EICHBBY

Oh yeah... then when I fell over her pots I'd smash my teeth in

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Catfish · 08-19-18, 10:38 AM

No, thank god. There is a bit of art Kitsch, but this is somewhat necessary; often something we brought with us from holidays but usually it is also something functional..
I am right now moving stones from one place to another, to build a dry stone wall out of unworked stones, and it is no fun at almost 30 degrees

Sailor Steve · 08-19-18, 03:23 PM

Don't have a partner. Don't have a garden. I don't have a lot of junk either, but that last should probably be qualified by how you define "junk".

STEED · 08-19-18, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

it is no fun at almost 30 degrees

Stop bitching on will you, on and on and on about the weather! You trying to puts us Brits out of a job?

Reece · 08-19-18, 07:39 PM

Yeh, nothing wrong with the 30's, it's the 40's and above I don't like!!

My wife has a nice garden and where it gets a bit thick with plants she mows around them so I have no complaints!!

GoldenRivet · 08-19-18, 11:04 PM

Our garden. lol

our entire family calls my house the "plant hospice"

its the place plants come die.

every spring my wife pours her soul into making the garden look as beautiful as can be, she weeds it, puts down new mulch and new decorations, plants lovely flowers.

within a week it is a wasteland... she isnt known for her green thumb lol

seriously she will call us into the room "You guys come look at my lovely new plant!"

me and the kids will almost simultaneously respond with "Poor thing." - "it has no idea what fate awaits it." - "i'll see that it gets a proper burial." - "do you have a list of its next of kin?"

on more than one occasion i have suggested pulling all the weeds, tilling the soil up with a few cans of salt, laying down pine needles throughout, and topping it off with gravel and a few nice ornamental things... she hasnt taken me up on it though yet

Reece · 08-19-18, 11:29 PM

Try a concrete jungle!!

Buddahaid · 08-19-18, 11:32 PM

No lawn, bliss.

08-18-18, 02:22 PM	#1
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,371 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Does your partner fill your garden with junk? My wife has a thing about stuffing every available space in our garden with pot plants and ornaments (mostly frogs and owls) This means that any time I have to do an important man-job, like rodding the drains or cutting the grass, I have to shift dozens of bloody pots and concrete animals first As if that weren't bad enough, I'm forever falling over the damned things Does anyone else prefer an uncluttered garden? __________________

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STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Buy a shotgun and have a blast. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,371 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	That last squirrel looks like he's praying, too __________________

08-19-18, 07:39 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Nearly thirty pots and a dozen or so concrete animals at the rear but most importantly....not a blade of grass. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Commander Wallace Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade Posts: 5,294 Downloads: 366 Uploads: 0	I think you should look at this situation from another perspective, Eichhornchen. Just pave over the garden or lay concrete and you can either put up portable basketball stands with nets so you can play basketball. you could also use it as a squash court or play deck hockey on it. I'm sure there are other things you could do as well. Now you have a nice recreation area. Last edited by Commander Wallace; 08-19-18 at 09:04 AM.

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,371 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Oh yeah... then when I fell over her pots I'd smash my teeth in __________________

08-19-18, 10:38 AM	#9
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	No, thank god. There is a bit of art Kitsch, but this is somewhat necessary; often something we brought with us from holidays but usually it is also something functional.. I am right now moving stones from one place to another, to build a dry stone wall out of unworked stones, and it is no fun at almost 30 degrees __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

08-19-18, 03:23 PM	#10
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Don't have a partner. Don't have a garden. I don't have a lot of junk either, but that last should probably be qualified by how you define "junk". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

08-19-18, 07:39 PM	#12
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,688 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Yeh, nothing wrong with the 30's, it's the 40's and above I don't like!! My wife has a nice garden and where it gets a bit thick with plants she mows around them so I have no complaints!! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

08-19-18, 11:04 PM	#13
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Our garden. lol our entire family calls my house the "plant hospice" its the place plants come die. every spring my wife pours her soul into making the garden look as beautiful as can be, she weeds it, puts down new mulch and new decorations, plants lovely flowers. within a week it is a wasteland... she isnt known for her green thumb lol seriously she will call us into the room "You guys come look at my lovely new plant!" me and the kids will almost simultaneously respond with "Poor thing." - "it has no idea what fate awaits it." - "i'll see that it gets a proper burial." - "do you have a list of its next of kin?" on more than one occasion i have suggested pulling all the weeds, tilling the soil up with a few cans of salt, laying down pine needles throughout, and topping it off with gravel and a few nice ornamental things... she hasnt taken me up on it though yet __________________

08-19-18, 11:29 PM	#14
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,688 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Try a concrete jungle!! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

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Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	No lawn, bliss. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie