Glad I could see the funny side of this....

[hamster]

I've just been out in the garden, sweeping up leaves for mulch and clearing my one free bed. Having got rid of the comfrey, mint et al with the help of a hand-trowel (and resorted to a bit of weedkiller on the most stubborn roots - please don't despise me) and picked out lots of stones, I went to get some cardboard to put on top of it.

Now, cardboard boxes are kept out the front of the house, waiting for.... well, waiting to be taken to the tip, but they've been there since we moved in in July... Anyway, I took my muddy shoes off at the back door, as I'd just hoovered the sitting room, went through the house and as soon as I got out of the front door.... BANG!!!

The door slammed shut behind me.

I was stuck outside the house, in my socks.

Clean socks, too.

B****r.

To get back to the garden, I had to go to the end of the terrace and make my way down a very narrow, nettle-infested path, using the flattened cardboard boxes as makeshift stepping stones and feeling very silly.....


Anyway, the garden looks much tidier. And I have three bags of dead leaves that are mulching down. And lots of comfrey leaves to put in my dalek when it comes. And I found a marble.

[red]

still at least you have that marble....

[Millymollymandy]

Well you are luckier than a flatmate of mine, who locked herself naked outside the flat. There was nobody else in in the other flats inside the house, but luckily she found the bloke who lived in the basement to help her break the lock and get back in.

Even luckier for her, she'd just thrown out a fake sheepskin fur rug, which she managed to wrap round herself! No wonder the guy in the basement was happy to help out!

I'm glad that since we've lived in France I've never come across a Yale type lock, so no chance of locking oneself out of the house!

[hamster]

Hehe. Lucky indeed she'd thrown out that rug.

In my first year halls at uni, there was a grad student who kept a master key and who you were supposed to go to if you locked yourself out. He was rather attractive and there was a spate of people who 'accidentally' locked themselves out wearing only a towel....

[Annpan]

Glad you got back in your house OK

My sister locked herself out of her bedsit one day, but her and her boyfriend managed to get the lock open with a credit card... When they came home after oing out that very night someone had broken into the room... seems that another bedsitter had overheard the conversation and used exactly the same method to break in.

[Thomzo]

I had a front door slam behind me once so I had to climb over my neighbour's fence. The cats make it look so easy......

My dad knocked small nails into the door jam next to the lock. It stops people using credit cards to open a yale type lock. Of course it stops you breaking into your own house as well.

Zoe

[snapdragon]

............ And I found a marble.

now you found your marble(s) you wont do it again eh?

- my rear path is just such a one - or was untill the railway men came and cleared both it and the undergrowth from the embankment (and cut away the blackberries that were within reach and just becoming ripe )

[Wombat]

Funneee! Just as well you can laugh about it!

Nev