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Weirdest thing you’ve found in your hedge

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CruCru · 26/07/2023 11:53

We’ve just been cutting our hedges and I’m quite taken aback at how much crap people have thrown in there (beer bottles, screwed up coke cans, giant water bottles).

I once found a plastic bag of rubbish in my compost bin. Someone would have had to walk into my garden and go up a slope into the bushes to find it (unless they pushed through a prickly hedge).

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AdaColeman · 26/07/2023 12:59

A tortoise.

TenderDandelions · 26/07/2023 13:31

Not a hedge, but our gutter cleaner did once find a 9 inch plastic lobster in our top gutters...

LuluGuinea · 26/07/2023 13:35

I was just coming on here to say about that thread!! The hedgehog bit especially is hilarious!

sadly I don't have a weird hedge finding story of my own.

Davestwattymissus · 26/07/2023 13:39

Not our hedge, but DH and I were driving down a country lane and spotted a Dualit toaster high up in a hedge in the middle of nowhere. We thought perhaps it might have fallen off a scrap van, either that or someone rather strong had thrown it up there!

Jules912 · 26/07/2023 13:41

A bra (not mine!). It was quite chewed so I assume a fox grabbed it off a washing line.

Defiantlynot41 · 26/07/2023 13:57

@Aurora2023 I thought this was going to be Chris McCausland's hedge snack from Would I lie to you

Beebumble2 · 26/07/2023 14:00

A rather nice vintage obelisk when we cut down a huge Leyllandi hedge at our new house.

Aurora2023 · 26/07/2023 14:05

Defiantlynot41 · 26/07/2023 13:57

@Aurora2023 I thought this was going to be Chris McCausland's hedge snack from Would I lie to you

Bah. It's insane how much I wanted that to be the truth 😂😂😂😂

NorthernChinchilla · 26/07/2023 14:10

My Gran found an axe in hers. Had the Police round, as they believed it may gave been used in a crime...

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 26/07/2023 14:10

Sandwiches. Full on sandwiches cut into rectangles. In the bush on some shared ground. Neighbours and I still refer to it as the Sandwich Bush. No one knows who put them there and there's only 3 of us that share the ground.

Is it anywhere near a route that children take on their way to or from school?! Children have a remarkable ability to not eat perfectly nice packed lunches, get rid of the evidence in any one of a number of cunning ways, and then go home to complain that they're 'sooooo huuunnnngggrrrryyyyyyyyyyy!!!'

I always remember at school, when we had a bank of lockers at the back of the classroom, but there were a few more lockers than there were children, so the additional ones would get claimed and padlocked before long. Soon, there was quite an undeniable pong coming from the lockers, which intensified throughout several weeks.

At the end of the term, having checked all of the 'standard' allocated ones, the whiff was narrowed down to one locker - and the teacher demanded that the person who had put the padlock on this one unlock it forthwith (I don't recall if anybody did so or if they just had to bust it open).

It was completely full of a whole load of nasty, rank, bogging, manky sandwiches, all neatly stacked up. <boaky mcboakface>

ColonelPuffPuffPuff · 26/07/2023 14:12

Quite a few of my Mothers gin bottles….

Hedgesfullofbirds · 26/07/2023 14:12

A fragment of a Wellington bomber approximately 18" square - two Wellingtons, on a night flying training exercise, collided nearby during WW2. Sadly all but one member of both crews were killed

WeAreTheHeroes · 26/07/2023 14:15

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper I immediately thought of that thread too

Seasideanticscanleadtosandybuckets · 26/07/2023 14:18

Has anyone mentioned the talking hedgehogs yet? The op heard rustling....it was apparently hedgehogs.
Not unless they talk and like a finger up the bum the op replied!!

Cherrysoup · 26/07/2023 14:26

BreehyHinnyBrinnyHoohyHah · 26/07/2023 12:24

There was a huge leylandii hedge at the back of our garden when we moved in. It was ridiculous. As high as the house and had been pruned really badly so looked really daft. Plus there were various dead trunks among it. So we had the whole thing pulled down so we could start again and give our poor neighbours behind us some light in their garden.

After it was removed we found a wheelbarrow, a paddling pool, probably about 30 balls of various sizes, hundreds of crisp packets, a bird cage, lots of rope, and various other bits of rubbish.

We took down leylandi a couple of years ago, trees, they were taller than the house. The tree surgeon was fabulous and his colleague stood on the tallest branches singing opera. Just amazing, he was really good!

Behind the leylandi was a proper rubbish dump-springs from a car’s suspension, a whole double glazed window, multiple breeze blocks, many tools, lots of broken crockery, newspapers, plastic bags, empty cement bags. It was crazy. We had 2 skips to get rid of everything. I’m astonished that nobody from the row of houses ever complained about the trees blocking the light. They had no afternoon sunshine! 😱

AnneKipankitoo · 26/07/2023 14:31

Gay male porn magazines and a small amount of paper money( 3 x £20 notes )

fetchacloth · 26/07/2023 14:34

Next door's kitten. Thankfully alive 😁

Ovinnik · 26/07/2023 14:47

A dead cat in a plastic bag. It had been dead for some time.

Aurora2023 · 26/07/2023 14:56

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 26/07/2023 14:10

Sandwiches. Full on sandwiches cut into rectangles. In the bush on some shared ground. Neighbours and I still refer to it as the Sandwich Bush. No one knows who put them there and there's only 3 of us that share the ground.

Is it anywhere near a route that children take on their way to or from school?! Children have a remarkable ability to not eat perfectly nice packed lunches, get rid of the evidence in any one of a number of cunning ways, and then go home to complain that they're 'sooooo huuunnnngggrrrryyyyyyyyyyy!!!'

I always remember at school, when we had a bank of lockers at the back of the classroom, but there were a few more lockers than there were children, so the additional ones would get claimed and padlocked before long. Soon, there was quite an undeniable pong coming from the lockers, which intensified throughout several weeks.

At the end of the term, having checked all of the 'standard' allocated ones, the whiff was narrowed down to one locker - and the teacher demanded that the person who had put the padlock on this one unlock it forthwith (I don't recall if anybody did so or if they just had to bust it open).

It was completely full of a whole load of nasty, rank, bogging, manky sandwiches, all neatly stacked up. <boaky mcboakface>

No ! We are set back off the road and there's no vehicle or any access except on foot. Just us three houses with this patch of shared grass on the front. And a bush which grows sandwiches. 😂😂😂😂
Eww yes. Sandwiches and other such things (cheese triangles in my day) left to melt in plastic boxes in bags and cupboards. Lovely 🤢

fivetriangulartrees · 26/07/2023 14:57

A selection of expired passports, a safe that had been broken into and the leftovers of a Chinese takeaway that the burglars had enjoyed while sitting through their loot.

fivetriangulartrees · 26/07/2023 14:57

*sifting

currahee · 26/07/2023 15:07

A pair of shit-filled jogging bottoms.

HarrietSchulenberg · 26/07/2023 15:27

Not my hedge but ddog found half a roast chicken under foliage in the park one evening. 2 mins before he'd found a full, uneaten burger complete with bun, salad and sauce.

Dingo99 · 26/07/2023 15:54

A remote control for opening a garage. The keyring was all rusty and ancient-looking. Never seen it before.

On pressing the button, it turned out to open our garage.

HedgehogB · 26/07/2023 15:56

stbrandonsboat · 26/07/2023 12:21

A scary looking soviet style plastic rabbit. I think it had blown there after a particularly blustery night. It went in the bin.

What makes a plastic rabbit soviet style 😂

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