Where the Caravan Isn't

When we bought this house from my parents, in 1999, they then had a house built on the land at the bottom of the garden. But when they moved into it, in the year 2000, they somehow forgot to take the Ancient Ancestral Caravan with them.

They claimed, erroneously, that they had sold it to us along with the house and it was now our responsibility. It was full of Ancient Ancestral Junk and whenever we came out of the back door of our house this was the sight that greeted us:

We didn't feel that this was a particularly enjoyable view and had a perennial getting-rid-of-the-caravan-plan which never quite came to fruition for two reasons:

1) we were too busy to clear out the Ancient Ancestral Junk

2) we were cheapskates and never got round to paying someone to take the caravan away

Then, one day a few weeks ago, a man knocked on the door and asked if he could have the caravan, as he wanted to restore it to its former glory - - and a few days later he actually came and took it away, which wasn't particularly easy as it had not much left in the way of wheels.

The ground where it had been was a bit of a mess as all sorts of Ancient Ancestral Junk had been hoarded under the caravan as well as inside it.

But my diligent mother (83) worked on it for about a fortnight and now, when you open the back door, here is the view:

Not finished - it needs some kind of patio or more gravel or something. But it's a great improvement.

Now I've got my sights set on the removal of the Ancient Ancestral Near-Derelict Greenhouse.