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Oddest thing you have found in your garden.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    That would be perfect in a "Oddest thing I have found in my kitchen" thread :p

    Just thought it was slightly related.....my kitchen door being right next to the back garden an' all:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    Hownowcow wrote: »
    My dog once found a hedgehog.

    I'm not sure which one of them we rescued.

    Same. Found the biggest ass hedgehog I've ever seen out there.

    Had to beat the dog with the sweeping brush to get him off. Let the poor guy go in a field next door.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    My dod used to bring a hedgehog into his bed. There were a nest of them under the shed. I didnt find it odd cos it happened a lot :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Derpington95


    I'm just waiting for someone to put a picture of a safe up so we have another escapade like last time :rolleyes: :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    I found a massive red parrot in the yard at work before. I've never seen 0anything look so out of place before. We managed to find its owner through the local radio station in the end.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    Chucken wrote: »
    My dod used to bring a hedgehog into his bed. There were a nest of them under the shed. I didnt find it odd cos it happened a lot :pac:

    Really. Did they not have a problem with each other?

    My dog went nuts when he found the hedgehog. I think the fact that it didn't run away and he couldn't pick it up really got to him. You want to have heard the howls out of him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Hownowcow wrote: »
    Really. Did they not have a problem with each other?

    My dog went nuts when he found the hedgehog. I think the fact that it didn't run away and he couldn't pick it up really got to him. You want to have heard the howls out of him!


    The little hedgehog was in a ball and I didnt realise what it was for a second. Doggie just had him in his mouth and left him in the bed with a big "look what I got you" look :D

    It seemed to turn into a night time game for them, Id leave the hedgehog out then and give him food so he knew what was coming :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    'twas a Summers night a bit like tonight when I was returning home from my local tavern after consuming many an ale.

    The moonlight lit up her pale skin and the stream of her piss on my fcuking driveway.

    "What the fuck are you looking at ? " said the fair maiden.

    "Get the **** out of my drive way " said I.

    Then I noticed her friend ... a behemoth female. "She has to go to toileth "

    I said."Thank God its her , and not you for then we'd have another giant moon in Finglas tonight"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    I found what I thought was a piece of pipe sticking out of the ground in the garden of a new house I'd bought, further digging revealed a wheelbarrow full of hardened concrete.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    When I was about 14 there would be a gnome put in our back garden every couple of weeks. My parents got security lights and an alarm fitted after the 3rd gnome appearance. We must have gotten about 8 gnomes out of it.

    I met my boyfriend on a dating site, his profile picture was him with a gnome....he only lives down the road from my parents. Completely irrelevant but I was a bit worried he was the crazy gnome guy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    False teeth.
    And no one ever claimed them. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    The corpse of Jimi Hendrix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    When I was about 14 there would be a gnome put in our back garden every couple of weeks. My parents got security lights and an alarm fitted after the 3rd gnome appearance. We must have gotten about 8 gnomes out of it.

    They probably got in your garden by themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    An overturned car in the front yard during one of the bad winters


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Two slugs, going at it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    A horse maybe a pony one or the other :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Found a fox in the process of killing a rat one night in the back garden, other times a deer would appear around the place as well to eat some of the grass, there is a forest just behind my back garden so sometimes the local wildlife comes to visit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    When I was about 10 I found an egg on the lawn. It was kind of bluish and made from stone, possibly marble and about the size and shape of a standard hens egg. It had a small sticker with 'made in Italy' on it. No-one could explain how it had gotten there and it's still lying around the house somewhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    A cooked sausage. In winter, so it wasn't as a result of a barbeque.
    No idea how it got there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    gramar wrote: »
    When I was about 10 I found an egg on the lawn. It was kind of bluish and made from stone, possibly marble and about the size and shape of a standard hens egg. It had a small sticker with 'made in Italy' on it. No-one could explain how it had gotten there and it's still lying around the house somewhere.

    My Great Aunt had two of those, she kept chickens and an Uncle brought them back to her from Rome!! Strange gift but she treasured them!

    But on to my own garden surprise!! A large bag, about the size of a bag of sugar, of a very pungent herb that I understand is very popular with the young folks!! A neighbour offered to take it off my hands! ;) Can only think it got fecked behind my garden wall in haste!! Circa 2002 so don't get excited...it's long gone!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    I found an AK47 in the front garden once. On closer inspection it was a plastic, toy one but it gave me a fright until I realised!


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I was younger, I once opened up the front door of our house to discover that somebody had left at least 20 cans of fizzy drinks on our porch. Have absolutely no idea where they came from, they just appeared there. And I enjoyed drinking them all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    a full fish,

    no idea where it came from, didn't appear to have any marks from an animal or anything. it was just lying there under the washing line


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    danniemcq wrote: »
    a full fish,

    no idea where it came from, didn't appear to have any marks from an animal or anything. it was just lying there under the washing line

    I'd suggest it was dropped from the beak of a seagull maybe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Silent Runner


    A 9lb Salmon

    A dazed/confused Otter, had to bring it back down to the waters, I live about 3 miles from an estuary, dono why it came into our garden:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    I'd suggest it was dropped from the beak of a seagull maybe?

    Live in Letterkenny, it would be a long long way from water that would contain fish and have never seen a seagull around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    An empty, yet intact, beer bottle. I had my back door open one balmy summer night a few years ago when this bottle came soaring over my roof, hit the rubber mat at the back door, and bounced a couple of times before coming to rest. It was a frigging miracle that it didn't shatter everywhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    danniemcq wrote: »
    Live in Letterkenny, it would be a long long way from water that would contain fish and have never seen a seagull around.

    From Donegal myself...You've never seen a seagull in LK?? I have many times! :) They come much further inland when it's stormy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    From Donegal myself...You've never seen a seagull in LK?? I have many times! :) They come much further inland when it's stormy.

    Honestly no! i've never seen one in LK, although granted i never went looking for them and i could have just got used to them being from Rathmullen.

    Must keep an eye out for the next week or so


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    danniemcq wrote: »
    Honestly no! i've never seen one in LK, although granted i never went looking for them and i could have just got used to them being from Rathmullen.

    Must keep an eye out for the next week or so

    Do you not believe me? :):):)


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