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\"Rusty<\/a>Work started on our garden today – we’re getting an old path removed and a lovely new lawn and borders put in. The landscape gardener doing the work ordered a skip a couple of days ago and this is what the monkeys at the skip company sent over. Ridiculous. It’s lucky we’re not getting rid of a few hundred sacks of marbles!<\/p>\n

The gardener has given them a bell and hopefully we’ll get a new one soon.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of a joke…<\/p>\n

…so I called up the local building company. The lady on the phone said “Can I help you?” I said “I’d like a skip outside my house.” She said “I’m not stopping you.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work started on our garden today – we’re getting an old path removed and a lovely new lawn and borders put in. The landscape gardener doing the work ordered a skip a couple of days ago and this is what the monkeys at the skip company sent over. Ridiculous. 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