General Chat

Last night as we were watching the telly, I turned around and looked through the front room window, and saw a little girl from down the street, climbing on my wrought iron fencing.
Though this is very sturdy, and the tops have a rounded little ball shape on the top, rather than a point, which I specifically asked for when the fencing was being made, just a slip would have given her a nasty injury, though not life threatening .
This morning on the 6.00 news I hear that an 11 year old boy, had to be air lifted to hospital last night in \Burton on Trent, from receiving a puncture injusry to his chest, whilst climbing a fence and slipping.
So, please discourge your children from climbing on garden fences, as many a slip could be life threatening.

Julia in Derbyshire

PS. OH will be having a talk with her grandad this morning, for her own safety.
And, I sincerely hope the little guy from Burton, gets better soon

nasty that - as you say, let's hope the little lad will recover

I remember when I was a young girl one of my friends (male) was climbing a wall with a spiked fence on top, he was going scrumping and fell from the tree and the spike went in a rather delicate place!! :-S :-S
He was never able to have any children....

Jules x

We had a car back into our wall last week and it's knocked two big bricks from the wall , we didn't put them back in case a child went to walk on the wall but while we were out a neigbour put them back thinking that he was helping , so we had to take them down again lol, they are still down until OH can get them cemented into place . which wont be for a while yet, he's had a complete knee replacement :-)

Wouldn't one of the helpful neighbours cement it in for you Hazel if you explained?

We have a large double gate between our estate and the next estate. It is a crash gate to enable emergency services to have access to the estate if something happens at the barracks up the road and shuts adjoining roads. These gates are wrought iron with sort of hoops on the top. The local youngsters don't think a locked gate is supposed to keep them from using that entrance so climb over it. Although it doesn't have spikes I am sure it could cause a nast injury should one of them slip and fall with a leg either side. But they won't be told. Not helped by the adults (often heaving bikes and/or dogs over it as well. And it is not really very far to walk round which amazes us. When the gates were chosen the council helpfully chose a set that have a convenient latch when unlocked which makes an ideal foot hold. :-)

Hi Ann,
Sorry just got back from my daughters .
No Ann there is noone that could really do it .Most of the neigbours are older than us :-D one side of us is a 92 yr old the other side they go out to work but really keep them selves to their selves and the man that put the bricks back has just found out that he has cancer but OH was just talking to our daughter and he said that he would probably widen our drive way by taking out a small part of the front garden which would mean that the bricks wouldn't have to go back but that will be later on in the summer s.i.l. said he would give him a hand to do it .
That iv'e got to see
:-D :-D

Happily this little boy is now safely home with his Mum.
HIs Mum said on the local radio, that he is lucky to be alive. The fencing pail went up his chest, rather than through it.

Thank goodness for a 'happy ending ' to this, and hopefully lessons have been learned.
I hope he gets better soon

Julia in Derbyshire

Maybe I am being a sour puss here, but if children were taught that other peoples property did not belong to them and they may come to harm if they breach that. There wouldn´t be a problem.

Morning Uzzi, No you are not being a sour puss. I totally agree with you.
No respect for other peoples property at all these days, it would appear, which is rather sad, I think.

Julia in Derbyshire

Thank you and Good morning Julia, I am glad somebody agrees with me.

I too agree with you Uzzi.

I am pleased that in this case it was not more serious though.

Ann I don´t wish the miscreants ill at all, but I do believe that if they break privacy TOUGH LUCK,
I myself broke an arm scrumping apples from the headmasters garden, (I fell out of the tree) Broke an ankle climbing over a wall to scrump rhubarb. It was nobodies fault but my own, I was where I shouldn´t have been.

Uzzi,you should have learnt to climb better, :-D scrumping was not looked at badly at one time as long as you did,nt take too many. :-D

Glad the boy is okay.

The problem with telling children not to do things is that, inevitably, they will do at least some of them. Not just children either from Ann's post.