[News] What unusual things have you woken up to in your garden

[LamieRobertson]

Bit of a surprise…perhaps substitute unexpected for unusual

Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden - BBC News

Johan Helberg says he was "quite astonished" to look out of his window and see the vessel.

www.bbc.com

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Don't you just hate it when that happens

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Next doors greenhouse minus most of its glass after the 1987 storm is probably up there.

 

[Smirko]

"You can't park there mate!"

 

[Weststander]

A dead parrot (not a Parakeet), must’ve flown into our patio window.

Yes …. I’m aware of the Monty Pythons sketch.

 

[BevBHA]

Your mum

 

[Eeyore]

Next door's shed after the hurricane

 

[Zeberdi]

Smashed through trellis. Ate all my tulips then ate my Bluebells. Then ate all my neighbours’ tulips and her prized nasturtiums.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Smashed through trellis. Ate all my tulips then ate my Bluebells. Then ate all my neighbours’ tulips and her prized nasturtiums.

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Got a small herd of those little shits who live at the end of the garden (along with a few fallow). They’ve never touched the tulips or bluebells, but I’ve had to put a fence around the orchard as otherwise they strip the entire thing completely in one night just as the fruit ripens. Bastard things.

 

[jackanada]

Next door's shed after the hurricane

That happened to some friends of mine, though from 3 doors down.
When the loss adjuster came to look at the damage to their house he was just finishing up when he looked out the back window and helpfully asked if they also wanted to claim for the wrecked shed. So they did.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Wouldn't happen in Brighton. Oh.

 

[Eeyore]

Got a small herd of those little shits who live at the end of the garden (along with a few fallow). They’ve never touched the tulips or bluebells, but I’ve had to put a fence around the orchard as otherwise they strip the entire thing completely in one night just as the fruit ripens. Bastard things.

Smashed through trellis. Ate all my tulips then ate my Bluebells. Then ate all my neighbours’ tulips and her prized nasturtiums.

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Yeah, but they're very cute in an 'I don't have them in my garden' sort of way.

 

[Gabbafella]

Back in my school days, a friend was having a small get together with a few mates as his parents were away. Obviously word spread and shit loads of people turned up.
In our stupid teenage drunken minds we decided it would be a good idea to leave Paul's parents a gift so we proceeded to gather 4 roads worth of garden gnomes, bird baths, road signs, traffic cones, even a pub sign and made a beautiful display in their front garden.
Suffice to say his parents didn't appreciate the gifts. Paul was grounded for a lengthy period and had to knock on every door until all items had been returned.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

We get foxes, deer and badgers, with the badgers being the worst. We have a large cherry tree on our lawn and if there’s a long dry spell they dig around the roots looking for grubs. The result looks like a hand grenade has detonated in the vicinity. I go around putting the turf back in the numerous holes and patching up as best I can, but found out to my dismay that they crap in some holes after digging them. I’ve fixed a deer scared to the bottom of the tree that activates a torch when there is movement nearby and turns on a built in radio that is tuned to Talksport. This seems to deter them.

 

[OzMike]

An echidna.

 

[Berty23]

When I was a kid growing up in a small farming village in Devon we had two milking herds of cows. We lived in a bungalow which had a relatively steep drive and small gate at the top (not a big drive - four cars was max capacity).

One morning I was woken up by three cows mooing outside my bedroom window. I opened the curtains and they were just there outside my bedroom looking at me. It turned out that loads of the cows being taken for milking were in our garden. I helped round them off and the farmer gave me a box of eggs.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I get really mad when other people block my driveway with their vehicle. How do they know when I will be leaving?

I don't know how many times I've had to say: "Get your f***ing cargo ship out of my way"

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I’ve fixed a deer scared to the bottom of the tree that activates a torch when there is movement nearby and turns on a built in radio that is tuned to Talksport. This seems to deter them.

I'd run away fast if someone tried to make me listen to Talksport

 

[Doug-ees-evil]

I've woken up, on my lawn, in my own garden (slightly worse for wear).. does this count?

 

[Home and Away]

Herd of cows. And literally that was the first thing I woke up to... my better half screaming "There's a herd of cows in the garden!" That was a bit of a surprise.