{"id":4334,"date":"2026-04-16T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:50:49","slug":"by-the-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"By the garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A manhole cover has been uncovered from under a bush with silver-backed leaves\" class=\"wp-image-4335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260304_120207859.MP_-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We (got someone in to) found the well cover and replaced the old pump with a new pump. Once we have electricity we can have running water again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4082-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of topsoil and other junk had been dumped around the back of the garage, which Owen has dug out with his digger. Lily spent some time clearing the foreign objects out of here, and said she was half expecting to find a body back here. So far so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"A double garage with two broken doors in the background. An empty green skip in the foreground\" class=\"wp-image-4337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260302_164754832-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The garage is a decent size, unfortunately both doors out of action so we had to break them to get in. Some evidence of the offputting graffitti someone added to put buyers off&#8230; that we didn&#8217;t see until after we&#8217;d bought the place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roof space of the garage was a treasure trove of electric fans, lamps, plastic, and other indoor gardening items &#8211; all of which has now gone to live on a skip farm in the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We (got someone in to) found the well cover and replaced the old pump with a new pump. Once we have electricity we can have running water again. A lot of topsoil and other junk had been dumped around the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look-out-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}