the holly and the ivy....
oh wait, it's nowhere near Christmas yet. This is just about the ivy. We all know I live in a block of units. Right behind is an identical block of units. The unit directly behind mine has a new family, with a toddling baby. About one year old or thereabouts. The mother brings him outside to play every afternoon for about an hour. The unit behind me also has ivy growing along and through the back fence. It's been there since before I moved in over eight years ago. It's a big stand of ivy. Some of the stems are quite thick and tough. I've been trimming back the edge whenever it gets too close to the lawn, but that's it. I'm not fussed about the ivy. The new family however, is fussed. The ivy hides all manner of creepy crawlies. Mostly spiders. Today while I was reading emails, I heard lots of scraping noises coming from the fence area. I looked out the back window just in time to see a clump of ivy being pulled back through the fence. I as...