The Neighbours

My little garden is quite private, or secluded, as the property people like to call it. There is a block of garages behind me, another garage to the right of me, three sheds and some trees and shrubs opposite me, and the house to the left of me. The house is a small bungalow, in "need of cosmetic updating", but the owner (not my humans, they just pay to live there) doesn't want to spend any money on updating. But at least the house blocks out the traffic noise from the sometimes very busy road.

Behind the rabbit sheds is a lovely garden which belongs to an elderly lady, who is very sweet and sometimes helps my humans to look after their garden when they are on holiday. To the right of me there are new neighbours. They bought the house last year, and have been doing the "updating" bit ever since. They extended the old garage into a new garden office, so that I am now looking at cedar wood panels instead of the conifer tree which used to be in that place. They gave the whole construction a grass roof with some wildlfowers in it. Looks quite pretty actually, but it suffered during the dry weeks earlier this year.

The new neighbours also have a thing for slightly hideous sculptures. First there was only a griffin and some plastic bird, but now they have added polystyrene sheep onto the grass roof and a big owl on the roof of the main house. And then there's that shiny trailer that looks like some kind of spaceship, and which really scared the rabbits when it was delivered. The humans are nice, though, and they often have BBQs and torture my humans with the lovely smell of grilled meat.

Here are some photos to show you what I am talking about. That metal cage you can see in the first photo, kind of ruins my view, but of course it is for the rabbits, and they are having a lot of fun in it, so I just try to ignore it.