Garden storage SHITE

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Do you too keep old crap in the garden, crap which is simply too good to throw out, yet you cannot be bothered to store it anywhere decent?

 

Let me illustrate by showing you around the extensive grounds of the Harper estate....

 

...walk this way...

 

 

 

 

^^^ There's an engine under there.

 

 

 

Good innit? Enough to give Alan Tittymarsh nightmares I reckon .

 

Next please.

[michiel]

Pray tell, what is a 'garden'?

 

Michiel, who lives in a tiny apartment with a useless balcony...

[pogweasel]

Garden.

Large parched area full of weeds and patchy grass, home to multiple broken childrens bicycles, scooters & toys, half-eaten shoes and various cunningly hidden dog turds {with magnetic attraction to shoes & lawnmower}. Or is that just our house..

[Father Ted]

Garden.

Large parched area full of weeds and patchy grass, home to multiple broken childrens bicycles, scooters & toys, half-eaten shoes and various cunningly hidden CAT turds {with magnetic attraction to shoes & lawnmower}. Or is that just our house..

Apart from one word that could be my house.

I keep stuff in boxes not unlike this one that I have finally emptied going with my master plan to empty a plot of the garden so I can get the mini digger in to flatten it and store the caravan....

[Volksy]

Garden.

Small overgrown area full of weeds and patchy grass, and numerous lawnmowers, bits of pipe, aluminium scrap bin, beer bottles on and under bench (broken), rescue trees (housemate's a gardener) inc. a Monkey Puzzle that gives you a swift jab in the eye when you come home after a couple beers. Very neat hedges though!

 

Forgot the spin dryer, and the ten thousand seedlings in little pots everywhere..

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My poor parents tolerated this on their patio for an age -

Those are the sill covers you can see propped up against the fence.

 

There's currently an engine block by their back door.

[Cavcraft]

Garden:

 

Flat wankily covered non-grassed area. Cat/rabbit playground, engine parts with flowers in, hidden secret button that automatically triggers nosey interfering old bat next door to come out the minute you so much as breath near the bastarding floor.

Spend 30 minutes listening to a female Victor Meldrew, wonder why you bothered trying to brighten the place up if you can't enjoy it in peace, laugh at the crazy image you had of sitting out there in nice weather reading a book completely unmithered, go back in and listen to wife or daughter rattling on.

SRSLY contemplate 'doing a Reggie Perrin'.

[GJR 11L]

I'd love one of those ornamental Herald bonnets for my garden, does Homebase sell them?

[ifc63]

Garden:-

 

Large area at rear of house on which to try and sneak as many cars as possible without the wife noticing.

Unfortunately also entails use of a motorised device to occasionally shorten the green stuff that grows therein.

 

 

 

[Minimad5]

Ian you should just build a HUGE garage

[morris_ital_lover]

/\/\/\ I HAZ FOUND DRM GARDEN /\/\/\

 

morris

[Station]

Got a bit naughty and left five wheels by the wheelie bins, got quite a tidy garden to be honest (or had).

[Lord Sterling]

Wow Ian, thats epic, I wish I could store cars in my garden, though it wouldnt look as neat piled with old Rover 800s/parts.

 

Garden:

 

Narrow, long area with hugely grown 'barley' grass making it resemble something out of Jurrasic Park. Cat playground/fighting area. Various alloys wheels and wheels trims and old mountin bikes wankley covered with builder-left-behind tarpaulin. Once a year having to borrow the neighbours heavy-duty garden equipment just to cut the mutant grass down to a level that you can actually step into the "garden" without getting lost.

[michiel]

Thanks guys! Wish I had a garden I could fill with shite (automotive, not canine).

[Dukestar25]

/\/\/\ I HAZ FOUND DRM GARDEN /\/\/\

 

morris

+1!!! That is epic!!!! I hope the neighbours are tolerant of your 'Hobby'

[Albert Ross]

Garden:

40ftx80ft area of grass and trees, only 12% of which is covered with A sierra, 2 LWB Land Rover chassis', a rear body tub, 2 truck cabs, a full roof, an astra tailgate, 25 assorted flat/bald wheels with tyres off all sorts of shit. Nettles, brambles, and strangely, last night, whilst looking for the cat, I found a Punto tail lamp. I'm sure there was a pair.... but hey ho.

Gets me a bollocking every time the Wife sees it.

[Minimad5]

I found a tiny chick in my garden today, didn't know what to do with it (And little brother nearly cried, when i said "It will just die, if it doesn't get fed") .. so i was going to place it in a cardboard box, then hand it to a local "rescue lady".

But after chasing the little begger around, then picking it up, it yelped mightily and it's parents arrived, and gave me grief.

So i placed him back down, and he scattered off into the weeds and so on.

 

I will post pictures of the little guy

 

Anyway my garden ...

 

Random childs plastic house.

Bits of box section metal.

Welding "table".

Crap thin shed.

A bucket containing a dead frog.

And a small chick, that likes to run around and cherp.

 

-That is all (for now)-

 

Ooh no, a wheel of a VW, which holds up our washing line

[Pete-M]

Hmm, I try to keep the garden shite-free, but I know that out there lurks the following.

 

1x Sapphire Cosworth alloy wheel (lattice type, not the later ones)

1x Range Rover battery

1x (possibly 2x) Cortina 2000E green tinted windows

1x Mk2 Escort bronze tinted rear window

 

Most of that lot has been there for 10+ years, so it's hard to spot.

[trigger]

My gardens pretty much tat free, It's only small so it wouldn't taken much to fill it up plus i have a large workshop and shed for my crap to be stored in.

 

All i have car related outside is this set of Mk4 Escort Eclipse wheel trims and a set of Mk2 Fiesta wheel trims to need to find a home for and the splash sheld of my Passat up the side of the shed.

 

[Minimad5]

What do the Mk2 trims look like (please) ?

[trigger]

 

They came off this (RIP)

 

 

They need a wash though but in lovely condition apart from a scratch on the centre of one.

[Minimad5]

I shall PM you sir

[trigger]

Right back at ya!

[Lord Sterling]

I've got one of those, cant remember where I found it. My mum used to have those exact trims on her old mk3 Fiesta. I once tried to paint the centre Ford signs in Red to go with her car!

 

Thanks guys! Wish I had a garden I could fill with shite (automotive, not canine).

Believe me Michiel you dont. If its anything like mine its hard work, sweating and burning up in the sun just to get it to some sort of civilised state.

 

When I used to live in Brussels we had these "cave" (Underground storge spaces) perfect for keeping for keeping shite car parts and in good condition, out of the elements. Do you not have one of these?

[retrogeezer]

They won't fit your fezza mark, you have 12" wheels and those trims will be 13". (unless you have changed your wheels obviously!)

 

Can I be next in line if Mark doesn't want them please.

[trigger]

Yeah no problem, I'll PM Mark and find out what he wants to do as they are 13".

[Minimad5]

I threw the Mk3 wheels on, there are pictures in my thread

 

Pretty sure they are 13"

To be 100% sure i will check and re-post when i know

 

Trigger as for postage, that is mighty cheap !

[trigger]

I was impressed with the postage as well!, I've just washed them and they seem to be in very good condition, even the FORD badge in the middle is chrome?.

 

They are date stamped 92 which is strange as they are of my old MK2, They must of been replaced with new ones at some point.

[retrogeezer]

I threw the Mk3 wheels on, there are pictures in my thread

 

Pretty sure they are 13"

To be 100% sure i will check and re-post when i know

 

Trigger as for postage, that is mighty cheap !

Ah! yeh, they should be 13" then.

[retrogeezer]

Just want to say thanks again to Mike for the TRIMZ that arrived on Saturday.

 

I put them on today and here is the proof:

 

Old chrome rings and centre caps (which I still like)

 

 

New ones more in keeping with the era: