I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF and I'll blow your house down

[strange_complex]

Oh dear. This is not the best way to start a morning's serious research:



I did go to bed last night feeling really quite nervous about how windy it was - though my concerns centred mainly around the enormous trees on the road outside, which I am often scared will fall over in the night and crush me in my bed. Happily, as it turns out no lives or limbs have been lost, but there clearly is now going to be tedium involving insurance companies and fence constructors. :-(

I've started the ball rolling this morning by calling the people who manage the adjoining property in an attempt to find out who is actually responsible for that fence: them or me.It's never been clear - you can't work it out by looking at which side the posts are on because they're in the middle, and I've been told conflicting things by different people who live up and down the road, too. The lady on the phone didn't know and said she would ask the owners, but of course when someone phones you up and says, "A fence has blown over: do you think it's yours or your neighbours?", any normal human being would obviously reply, "Oh, well I always thought it was theirs", wouldn't they? So I think I can guess what their answer is going to be.

Damn, damn and triple-damn.

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Comments

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

We've actually got through unscathed here at the parental manse, which is a bit of a surprise as the QEII bridge was closed off by yesterday afternoon. I hope you manage to get this all sorted out easily and quickly.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Cheers! It could have been a lot worse, I guess. E.g. in the final picture, the window nearest to the fence is somebody's bedroom window, so I'm very glad that didn't get smashed in by a flying fence-panel while he was sleeping. I wonder if what did happen woke him up? I haven't seen anything of the house's actual occupants so far today.