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

[kernowgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, indeed! Is it just fences blown over? I understand they're quite tedious enough, but I hope nothing of greater sentiment (or integrity to the house) got damaged.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

No, it's just the fences. In the first photo, you can see a honeysuckle plant lying horizontally, when yesterday it was vertical and climbing up the fence. So I think that may not be quite the plant it was once everything has been fixed around it. But I'm hoping that even that will be salvageable, as it is still firmly rooted in the ground.

[kernowgirl.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear. Best of luck with the fence. I suppose that's our advantage of buying a fenceless property. We had to pay for our own fence to be put in, but at least we know its ours! And I'm comfortably sure that it will survive gales and floods too, although time will tell how well our money was spent.

My very best wishes to your honeysuckle as well. They do seem a pretty hardy flower, so I'm sure it'll be looking fantastic again next year.