Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

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My neighbour next-door-but-one are a nice old couple I am very friendly with. They have a wood-burning stove, and additionally John is a keen carpenter, so you can barely get in the house for wood, it's stacked everywhere. I have a blackberry patch in my rear garden, and the gardeners are under strict instructions to leave it well alone. However, every couple of years, they'll get some new personnel, who don't check the work-sheet, and they'll set about my blackberries. One year, some idiot cut them down when they were covered in fruit! :mad: I erected a sign as a reminder, but the last one had fallen apart, so I had another made. A few weeks ago, I was helping my neighbour out with something, and I asked him if I could have a piece of scrap wood to nail the sign I'd had made to. I wanted to do it myself, but predictably, John wanted to make me one, and insisted he did so. I said I wanted something about 3ft long. I thought he'd forgotten, but I was out in the Guardian earlier, and he shouted over that he'd done my post, but it just needed painting! I told him not to bother painting it, and shortly after he delivered this!

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And those vampires and zombies better watch out too! ;)


Any bigger and I'd have needed planning permission, but I malleted it down a bit :rolleyes:

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Jack Black said:
My neighbour next-door-but-one are a nice old couple I am very friendly with. They have a wood-burning stove, and additionally John is a keen carpenter, so you can barely get in the house for wood, it's stacked everywhere. I have a blackberry patch in my rear garden, and the gardeners are under strict instructions to leave it well alone. However, every couple of years, they'll get some new personnel, who don't check the work-sheet, and they'll set about my blackberries. One year, some idiot cut them down when they were covered in fruit! :mad: I erected a sign as a reminder, but the last one had fallen apart, so I had another made. A few weeks ago, I was helping my neighbour out with something, and I asked him if I could have a piece of scrap wood to nail the sign I'd had made to. I wanted to do it myself, but predictably, John wanted to make me one, and insisted he did so. I said I wanted something about 3ft long. I thought he'd forgotten, but I was out in the Guardian earlier, and he shouted over that he'd done my post, but it just needed painting! I told him not to bother painting it, and shortly after he delivered this!

jFmSiAG.jpg



And those vampires and zombies better watch out too! ;)


Any bigger and I'd have needed planning permission, but I malleted it down a bit :rolleyes:

NOoOxYb.jpg


95vvztb.jpg


mwjxRCE.jpg
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A little string or caution tape to mark off the plants might help, too. "I didn't cut the blackberries, only the vines!"
 
JohnDF said:
Great sign, Jack.
Hopefully they won't prune the sign.
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r8shell said:
A little string or caution tape to mark off the plants might help, too. "I didn't cut the blackberries, only the vines!"
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I hope not John! :eek: :D Last year I stuck half a dozen lengths of bamboo in the ground, and ran garden twine between them to discreetly fence off the blackberries. The next time the gardeners came, I saw one idiot lifting the strimmer over the twine to get at the brambles! o_O I've put about a dozen bricks around them too, which, combined with the sign, and me bellowing out of the window at them, will hopefully protect my blackberries, which, of course, I share with my neighbours :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
My neighbour next-door-but-one are a nice old couple I am very friendly with. They have a wood-burning stove, and additionally John is a keen carpenter, so you can barely get in the house for wood, it's stacked everywhere. I have a blackberry patch in my rear garden, and the gardeners are under strict instructions to leave it well alone. However, every couple of years, they'll get some new personnel, who don't check the work-sheet, and they'll set about my blackberries. One year, some idiot cut them down when they were covered in fruit! :mad: I erected a sign as a reminder, but the last one had fallen apart, so I had another made. A few weeks ago, I was helping my neighbour out with something, and I asked him if I could have a piece of scrap wood to nail the sign I'd had made to. I wanted to do it myself, but predictably, John wanted to make me one, and insisted he did so. I said I wanted something about 3ft long. I thought he'd forgotten, but I was out in the Guardian earlier, and he shouted over that he'd done my post, but it just needed painting! I told him not to bother painting it, and shortly after he delivered this!

jFmSiAG.jpg



And those vampires and zombies better watch out too! ;)


Any bigger and I'd have needed planning permission, but I malleted it down a bit :rolleyes:

NOoOxYb.jpg


95vvztb.jpg


mwjxRCE.jpg
Click to expand...
Jack, unfortunately you may need to add electrified fencing :D:D:D
 
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