Blue string man

[hedgewizard]

The chap that owned the Coach House before us was very fond of blue baling twine. He's been gone three years and I'm still finding it. It's holding up guttering, strangling bushes that used to be staked, tying together odd things in the garage to make weird contraptions (still trying to work out the broom with a spoon on the other end), turning up in yard lengths every time I turn over a new piece of soil and IT'S DRIVING ME MENTAL!

What things have previous owners of your properties done to piss you off?

[Millymollymandy]

I keep finding bits of asbestos!!!

Oh and the fact they were mega stingy when it came to any insulation in the walls and roof pees me off big time. YET, they spent £7,000 10 years ago on the stairs (two flights), hand made in elm. ??????

[ina]

Last place I lived in, I kept finding dozens and dozens of golf balls in the garden... In the end, I kept them and gave them to do friend who sold them at a carboot sale.

Btw, can't we start a "101 uses for a broom with a spoon at the end"?

[Goodlife1970]

We found that the previous owner had just filled in any cracks in the walls with filler,this falls out all over the place an alerts us to yet another hole in the wall/ceiling from which we get a good view of outside! Also she had kept the garden full of loose coal,it comes to the suface every time we get a good fall of rain.In my previous house the owner had taken down a huge greenhouse,smashed up all the panes and buried them in the garden! I hadnt got rid of all the glass after five years................Prehaps the brush/spoon combo was for a very messy eater?

[hedgewizard]

Connor and I decided it was for feeding the mother-in-law and then sweeping up after her

[LynneBee]

Its for picking up potatoes when you have a broken leg???


can't say that we have found anything so unusual but we did have to empty the house before we could move in and found many items 6 carry bags with flat caps in ????? things pickled long brown things??????? crisps from 20 years ago???????'

We are still going through the sheds and am putting toogether all the nails in sizes so far we have enough to fill in one shed????? ok so he was an engineer but????????

[Millymollymandy]

My English neighbours found in their attic an 1860s American rifle from the Civil War era. In Brittany! It is amazingly heavy. I imagine in the UK you would probably have to hand it in, wouldn't you?

[Wombat]

We are the first owners of our house - All I find buried is builders rubbish!

Nev

[hedgewizard]

We've had builder's rubbish too, in fact I've been writing about that in my blog. Our house is in the grounds of a manor house that was moved - yes moved - from the bottom of the hill due to flooding in 1880. They just took it to bits and dragged it up the hill with oxen and a traction engine. Anything that got damaged or didn't get used, they buried... guess where? Yup, in what's now my garden! We did find some nice railings when we dug over, about 12 feet of them in fact. Shame they were so mangled...

[Millymollymandy]

omigod hedgie. I have been reading your blog but as that's white on black and this is the opposite, my eyes have gone

Anyway, it is interesting. And I like the photo of you!

[shiney]

We have a mix of stuff in our garden. Glass mainly. Bits of it still finding it's way to the surface after five years of me trying to get shot of it all. We do have builders crud as well. Fence posts with about 50lbs of cement on them is a favourite find too!

[FluffyMuppet]

We've been gradually clearing our garden of a bramble thicket. When we got to the bottom of the garden we realised it was hiding worse horrors - one of the previous occupants (presumably the last) had taken great piles of rubbish up there and set light to them. We had broken crockery, milk bottles, drinks cans, bits of car, plastic toys and unidentifiable things, all mixed in with soil and muck from a garden that had been untended for years.

In the loft we found great sackfuls of old cuddly toys, covered in glass fibre loft insulation.

And a week or so after we moved in we found out that they hadn't bothered mentioning that the kitchen sink leaked and that they'd been holding it together with a towel....

BLEEEEURGH

[ina]

The chap that owned the Coach House before us was very fond of blue baling twine. He's been gone three years and I'm still finding it.

Keep meaning to ask you - if you are so fed up with the blue stuff, can I help you out with some orange baling twine?

[Goodlife1970]

[quote="hedgewizard"]We've had builder's rubbish too, in fact I've been writing about that in my blog. How do I get to your blog? Like I said not really computer literate! Also why is the pottery you find in the garden ALWAYS blue and white willow pattern?????

[woolcraft]

Some time ago in a house we don't live in now we found a set of Victorian era surgeon's knives, saws etc in a wooden box in the attic. We later saw one on the Antiques Roadshow worth some amount, so now we're carting it around with us. Why? What does it say about us?