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I just came back from an expedition from our back yard. Which is overgrown with ivy that the museum (which is now gone) planted in their yard and promised they would keep in check, which they didn't. It has now overgrown all the of the inside of the block. It has been joined with a thorny plant, not sure how that came in our back yard.
In the door from the yard to the basement my father installed a fan, the prevent the air getting damp in the basement. The last couple of weeks I heard a soft rattle, soft enough to ignore. But last night it had suddenly gotten a lot noisier. I had to sleep with my earplugs in. The same thing happened last year and it turned out a plant had grown up against the fan.
So I had to get to that door, from the outside. So I put on my thickest pair of jeans, my jeans jacket. Put the plant cutters in a pocket and took a broom handle with me. Because it isn't just overgrown with plant, it seems our yard is a haven for big (for Dutch standards) spiders. So the stick was to get rid of any spiders and webs on my way.
Luckily a plant had grown against the fan again and I was able to remove it. I removed all plants in the area, hopefully it'll take a while before they grow back.
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