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Kind of a sad day for my bicentennial post...our lovely garden is being completely devastated by some inept builders.
It's a long story, and I'm too angry and upset to elucidate too much...
But the long and short of it is that after much wrangling over constantly blocked drains, our agents commissioned a bunch of cowboy farm workers to completely replace our drainage system and septic tank.
Coupled with the most incompetent agent you'd (n)ever wish to meet, this has been, basically, disastrous.
They chopped trees down, and they've knocked them down, as in the sad case above...they've broken paving slabs everywhere, and they've broken wooden planking borders along our paths.
They've destroyed at least a couple of birds nest, and we've had an almighty tussle with them today trying to insist that they don't just tunnel under a nest where our local blackbirds are currently feeding a young brood...only the threat of criminal charges seemed to stop them.
They've utterly ruined the lawn by leaving deep grooved digger tracks over it, where they haven't just scuffed, scraped and dug it up otherwise.
They leave rubbish everywhere - cigarette packets, sandwich wrappers and silver paper or plastic, in the hedgerow, on the lawn, on the verge outside.
They've killed many plants around the garden.
They've destroyed a large section of hedgerow.
They've left huge piles of claggy soil all round the garden, even though they've supposedly filled in the holes the mud came out of.
They've utterly trashed the car park, breaking up into small pieces many of the flag stones we park on...much of it is not driveable on now...
Oh, and we think they've destroyed the pipe that connects next door's sewage and storm drains to ours, and hence to the existing septic tank - they've effectively cut them off at the mains, and created a closed system next door which will soon be backing up.
So, not a good day around our house...
But we're on the case, and hope to prevent further damage at least.
Watch this space...
:-(
Grim. Commiserations.
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