Good fences make good neighbours
We fared remarkably well in the very high winds of a couple of weeks ago. In fact, the only casualty was some fencing around our back garden, which was already very rickety. After the winds hit, several of the panels were leaning at crazy angles, but none of the panels themselves were badly damaged.
Our house was built in the mid-1980s (along with two others) on the garden of a nice Victorian cottage a few doors down. Being at the end of the row, we have the good fortune to have a lovely Victorian brick wall as one boundary of our garden. The others are cheap larchlap fencing panels and posts. If we had the money, we’d love to buy some reclaimed bricks and replace the fencing with walls matching the existing one, but it would be very expensive, and we have very little money to spare.
