Fence - revisited

It's not a very 'sexy' house modification - but today we had the inside of our left hand fence covered in fence palings.

The house next door has the parents and 3 teenaged/early 20s boys and a (newish) pool. Maybe 5 or 6 years old? The house we demolished also had a (above ground) pool of 30ish years old. Which we removed. For whatever reason the fence runners are on our side of the existing fence.

When we moved in, we had the fence covered along the stretch which bordered their pool (and they also have fence extenders at the top). However in the last week Oscar has started to climb the runners near the front yard, use that to climb our side gate and get out into the front yard. From there (if he wished) he could easily walk down the side of next door, drag an outdoor chair, open the pool gate and get into the pool :(  Or just wander off down the street!

Thankfully next door have been wonderful. And today their middle son (a chippie) and his mates came across to put palings all along the inside of our fence, and also put guards on the gate to help prevent climbing. It is already deadlocked with a proper key lock. AND they're building a side gate on their side to help prevent any little person access to their back garden.

I can't tell you how grateful I am that the neighbours have been so accommodating and helpful and willing to go the extra yards to keep the kids safe.

Both sides (and indeed over the road and further down) have been so lovely, welcoming and accommodating since we've returned. For example - today Oscar wrote a 'letter' to the guy next door to thank him for installing the fence posts. Of which you could probably make out about two words :P  But the guy next door made a big deal of receiving the letter - (pretending) to read it and making Oscar feel so special for writing it :P

Makes me even happier to have our home in this street <3