Friday March 22nd 2019

Fencegate: 

The above image is what our garden fence looked. Shocking. More rot than wood in places how it stayed upright in the endless gales we get here is anyone's guess  Mind you don't they say a creaking gate lasts longest. Certainly this fence creaked. During windy days it would oscillate and flex like a dogs tail. Various bits of wood were nailed in to prevent collapse. But this winter after endless days of gales one of the fence post snapped in two about 3 feet up. Time for a new fence.

There is a whole saga about getting a fencer to come, maybe for another day. In the end we contacted John, known as Mr Fencer. I'd seen some of his work around and about so fingers crossed he'd do a good job. And so he did.  Although it was like an Ealing Comedy at times. He arrived Monday in his big yellow truck and began dismantling the fence. Then disappeared only to return in another van in the afternoon. 

His truck needed an MOT. Tuesday he turned up in his truck put the uprights in and then disappeared for the day as the truck had failed it's MOT. Wednesday he just disappeared and then sometime during the afternoon he got the feather edged boards in situ. Apparently he was running with then from a van to our garden. The he disappeared. Thursday the job was finished and on Friday before 8am he came with a van to remove all the old fence posts and panels, which entailed at one point chain sawing the rotten fence panels in half as he stood on top of the pile of them. I covered my eyes at that point. In the end he was a great worker, and has done a really fabulous job with the fence, so strong I'm sure it will withstand a hurricane.  Just need to repair the garden now, that's a weekend job then!!