Boundary

Previous owners of the neighbouring property played fast and loose with the boundaries and put up a fence that, far from straight, strayed over 2 metres into our property.

It was like that when we bought it and by the time I came out from UK to study what we'd bought, the neighbouring property had new owners too. I noticed the wildly out of alignment fence but was still figuring out how to raise the subject with the neighbours (great neighbours by the way - fabulous - lets call them M&F), when a second neighbour (L) with whom we and M&F also share fences pointed out the startling kink. "L is a stickler for straight" said M&F, "He'll want to straighten it out."

And sure enough he did; built a whole new fence as a continuation of one he was building along his boundary with me.  It is entirely agricultural - warratahs (also called Y-posts or standards) and 'hurricane' netting. It's dog-proof - that's all M&F are looking for - and relatively inexpensive.  

L finished it on Friday.

M&F's side - nice grass

Saturday Mr B and I moved my rabbit- and weka-proof fence over the 2 metres or so to add the recovered land to my veg garden. I'd originally designed the garden with that recovery in mind. It represents two 'half-beds' in my lay out, giving me a 6 year rotation plan (6 beds).

I have pulled all the old wires and lifted out 12 posts of the old fence; 6 to go. I have about a dozen hedging shrubs to cut-off/ dig out and a lot of straw and horse manure will need to be added to bring it into production next year.

Sunday... another 2 posts out. I think the fencing contractors started out with hard work and good intentions. The first 11 posts would appear to have been properly put in - dashed hard work to get out.  The 11 posts furthest from the road (where I started) came out so easily I had been jumping around joking about being "an unfencing contractor - post extraction my specialty". As I have approached the road, progress has slowed dramatically and I'm not at all jocular. (4 will remain in the ground, repurposed in their original positions).

Mr B suggested he join Scully and me on our walk today. Post extraction was quickly dropped and we had a long leisurely stroll round the Loop Track of our Bay community.

There were meant to be some photos here taken on Mr B’s phone during our walk but I've waited 4 days....