Property News · March 13, 2023

How long can one family ignore a revolting garden mess? I’ll get back to you | Emma Beddington


My sons’ festering protein shake beakers have been living outside for months, part science experiment, part artwork – and don’t forget pure laziness and passive aggressionAfter a brief Fool’s Spring, Second Winter is upon us, leaden and inevitable. But, despite the slush, there are cheering hints of colour: I can see a pop of red in the garden from my office window. Is it a tulip? No – it’s the lid from a protein shake beaker. They’ve been living out there for nearly a year. After I fell over yet another one festering next to the sofa with three inches of stinking “plant protein” left to ferment in the bottom, the iron entered my soul. I chucked them all outside, unwisely reasoning that at some point someone would need, retrieve and clean them.That never happened, and I have doubled down on my idiocy by just leaving them there. They have now become a garden feature, the kind of thing you notice occasionally, think “I should do something about that,” then ignore. The lids became separated from the beakers and set out on a frolic of their own, rolled by the wind in all directions. I see one beaker is gracing a pot of daffodils; another miraculously appeared on the scaffolding covering the house. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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