Weirdest Thing Found In Your Garden

[CharlyAngelic]

Inspired by a pre Christmas thread about Wonky Candles and a poster making a water feature out of a “minge” found in her garden.
I found male gay porn magazines ( in early 1990s ) and on a different occasion money ( 2 £20 notes , I think they were mine , to be fair , caught up in some till receipts for recycling bin )
I am sure Mumsnetters can better this !

In this garden we found an entire victorian style bedstead - you know the type of bed that has springs for the base where you lay the mattress. Anyway - that is buried at the back of our garden, under a pond we have since removed and with walnut tree roots running through it. DH was going to try and dig it out but, alas, it was too difficult - so there it remains (for someone else to discover in years to come).

Also some very old shotgun cartridges (probably pre WW2) when we were having a garden wall built.

And loads of those green plastic mini soldiers buried all over one flower bed. Can imagine small children having had loads of fun playing with those.

Years ago in the UK, I found a dead goldfish on the ground by the back gate. Stiff as a board it was but otherwise undamaged. I can only think one of my cats stole it from a pond in some neighbour’s garden.

Not weird for here, California, but freaked me out after I first moved here, a raccoon hiding in a cypress tree in my back yard. I’d gone to trim a few dead, broken branches and as I caught hold of one to snip it this bloody bandit face popped out and hissed at me. Nearly gave me a heart attack. Not sure who screamed louder me or it. Then it scrambled further up the tree. It later dropped an empty ripped cat treat bag on DH’s head from up there.

When DH was renovating our house he found a mains gas pipe capped at one end. British Gas assured him it wasn't live.
The builder and DH went to pull it up with a digger. It was a live pipe.....
DH says he's never seen so many gas engineers and fire engines arrive in one place so quickly!
Also, I pity the person who ever buys a field that DH's friend used to own, and tries to build on it, there are a couple of cars buried in there....

When our DD was a baby our first house together, the garden was so over grown we lived there 6 weeks before we could even get down the garden, then we found, an anderson shelter, car bonnet, broken pots, bits of china,glass.

When they were building behind our house and the builders gave DS 5 and a budding paleontologist all sorts that they found once they'd cleaned it up. We live in the oldest part of town dating back way past medieval times. He got 2 x old clay pipes, several horses teeth and what looks very much like a wild boars tusk. They also found a couple of animal skeletons but I didn't really want them!

We have found a very old Dinky Meccano truck, the brass button from a WWII uniform and a pile of Lego so far.

In a few years time someone is going to find the remains of two pig's trotters buried somewhere in this garden.

I wonder who bought this house....

A plastic sex aid @MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals

Field next to our garden. A massive pile of dirty mags. Sons took them to school and sold them as single pictures. Only admitted it a few years later.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3443772-To-give-MIL-a-big-waxy-cock-for-Christmas
Thread link for you @MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals

Ooh @ChesterGreySideboard
I think you can check “house sold prices” on Rightmove.

I know/knew someone who got buried in their garden.
Its a big garden so unless you decided to dig in exactly that spot ,its not going to be in the way of gardening, if you see what I mean.

It also meant that the house was valued at quite a reduction. Snobby village so someone scooped up a bargain.

A live frog. We're in a built up area, no local ponds/streams etc, no one in the street has a garden pond. DH wondered if it could have been caught then dropped by a bird but it hopped off sharpish when I tried to have a closer look so it didn't seem at all injured or worse for wear!

A slightly squashed tomato in the middle of the grass. Bugged us for days until we happened to mention it to NDN who confessed he'd thrown it towards a fox digging in his garden but got a bit carried away and bounced it off the top of the fence instead

@CharlyAngelic Oh my god I'm crying! Thank you for bringing that thread into my life!!

Every time we have any wind around our way we end up with one of those plastic leafy ball things that people hang by their front door. The thing is that we live on a very small estate in the country and the neighbours don't have these so I have no idea where they come from. DH thinks that they are harbingers of a leafy plastic alien invasion.

I also found a dead pheasant on our trampoline.

A hard boiled hens egg buried in the planter under my front window. Bizarre.
I often see squirrels digging in it but surely a squirrel couldn't carry an egg??

A small leather coin purse with about 10g of coke in it in wraps
It had been in undergrowth for a long time by the look of it

Good thread! So far, we’ve found:

• a badger (dead )
• a flock of sheep (alive!)
• two wells, one medieval,
• a glass bottle from the 1500s
• bottles and bits of pottery from various periods
• the footprint of a medieval dwelling with its later extensions
• a snake
• a man (wandering around trying to find a manhole)
• a three hundred year old skull

We’ve been extending - it’s been fascinating!

You’re welcome @MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals1
Sorry missed out the 1
It was a great pre Christmas thread .

A small herd of cows in the open-plan front gardens of a previous house. It was a new estate surrounded by industrial land - we didn't know there were any farms nearby.

In this house:

• When we came back from holiday once we found a large kitchen knife (not ours) embedded in our back lawn surrounded by cigarette butts (we don't smoke). Creepy.

• Irn Bru bottle embedded upside down in back lawn - thrown off the scaffolding by builders.

• After another holiday - blood, guts and fish scales all around our pond. We think our five large goldfish and one koi were eaten by mink from a nearby river.

We used to play with those green plastic soldiers!

In my garden the weirdest things have been:

• a motorbike (very expensive kind)
• an ornate sundial

(Both the above just appeared overnight on different days)

• a tick-covered ferret, which we caught and managed to find a new home for
• someone asleep on top of our hedge (New Years Eve!)

A highland cow, two had escaped from a local farm one was chewing on my Mum's flower bed, whilst the other was making itself comfy in the living room (we were having an extension and the French doors hadn't been fitted yet). We lived in the Midlands at the time...

Got up one morning after very high winds to discover my neighbour’s trampoline in our garden. It’s a big one as well so luckily didn’t cause any damage. Takes me a while to wake up in the morning so was staring out the window for a good few minutes trying to work out what was wrong with the view! I knew something was different but couldn’t work out what until it suddenly clicked that I don’t normally have a massive trampoline on it’s side in my garden.
Same neighbours were dog sitting one time and the dog got into our garden. She was lovely and friendly, I had a fab time chasing her round for a good ten minutes before I actually started to seriously try to catch her!

After a very entertaining Sunday wading around in Mumsnet Classics, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the elderly Korean lady.