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There is a tiny elderly Korean lady in my garden and I want to go out.

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Boysclothes · 09/08/2014 15:14

Sold our summerhouse on gum tree. Dude came to look at it this morning about 9am, paid and was back by 11 to dismantle it. DH all togged up to assist but the guy politely and firmly refused as he wanted to take it apart himself so he could put it back together himself.

He pulled his van into our side return and installed a tiny elderly Korean lady (he is also Korean) on a deck chair on our patio.

He then spent an hour writing on every plank and taking 1500 photographs.

He then spent two hours peeling off the roof felt painstakingly. Korean lady has been to toilet twice. As far as I can see she is here for the day out.

However she has just been to the car and produced steaming hot noodles, broth and vegetables and they have had a lovely leisurely lunch on the patio.

He has just now resumed work and has actually started to remove the planks. Slowly. Methodically. I know because he has told me that there are 85 planks. Plus window. To removed and carry to car. DHs help has again been refused although he has taken matters into his own hands a bit and is carrying planks to car.

Elderly lady back on deck chair.

Help!! We want to go out and thought that this would take 2-3 hours max. It's been 4 and only the roof felt is off. We could lock the back door and leave them in the garden but what about elderly lady's toilet needs???? And water etc? They have a little tea break (from a flask) every now and then and have refused drinks but they must need water at some point.

AmyMumsnet · 12/08/2014 11:14

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all your nominations. We've now moved this to classics. If only EKL was here to accept the award .

[pinkvisor].

JustineMumsnet · 19/08/2022 13:22

Hello everyone - sorry I'm a bit late to this (thanks for @-ing me @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius ). I can categorically say I did not start this thread (and nor did anyone from the team):


  1. it's not something we do or need to do - there are so many bizarre, random, fascinating threads started by users.

  2. I wish I was that imaginative!

As an aside we have a Christmas pub quiz each year at MNHQ where we have to fill in the missing blanks from the thread titles and I remember this one from last year's quiz. Question: "There is a tiny BLANK in my garden and I want to go out". I think I answered gnome šŸ˜‚

(I'm not sure why we deleted the post from Revolver suggesting I started this thread btw - looking into that but we don't generally delete this kind of thing so unless there's something else afoot we'll reinstate it).

JustineMumsnet · 22/08/2022 10:12

Boysclothes · 22/08/2022 00:22

Can’t believe this has just popped up on my ā€œthreads I’m onā€! It’s incredible that people still
remember this!
DS is now almost 11. Next doors cat sadly passed away but they have two new kittens now. I have another DS and a dog. Didn’t hear from EKL or KM ever again after they put the cigarettes through the door 🄲
Can’t believe this thread continues to get so much love!
@JustineMumsnet i an shocked tho that you didn’t get the title right and am questioning everything now. It’s like you don’t even care about EKL which can’t be right because she was so adorable yet terrifying?

I know but in my defence I'm getting on a bit there are a LOT of threads Grin

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