{"id":115223,"date":"2025-05-19T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115223\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:23:11","slug":"edinburgh-pensioner-fears-she-is-being-watched-after-enraging-garden-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115223\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh pensioner fears she is being ‘watched’ after enraging garden discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Edinburgh pensioner has hit out at a fly tipper who dumped a Christmas tree<\/a> in her front garden.<\/p>\n

Judy Lothian, from Clermiston, revealed the incident has left her feeling uneasy in her own home as she believes the culprit may have been watching her.<\/p>\n

Sadly the council tenant<\/a>, who lives with mobility issues, recently lost her partner and lives at home with her two dogs, reliant on her sister for help around the house and garden. Her sister had spent hours tidying up the front lawn with the pair having gone out to drop garden waste on the morning of Monday May 19.<\/p>\n

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The siblings after dropping off the garden waste decided to go shopping but on their return the dead Christmas tree could be seen poking out of her flowers and hedge. Judy is adamant the tree must have been dumped between the hours of 10am and 1pm in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

She believes someone may have observed her having garden work done and when she left her home, they seized their opportunity to dump the tree in the hope she would get rid of it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt has set off the paranoia,\u201d Judy said. \u201cI\u2019m now worried someone is watching the house, it is really worrying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recently lost my partner and all I have left are my two dogs. It is depressing someone has done this.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Christmas tree was visibly poking out of the hedge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really pissed me off. My sister has spent hours getting the garden nice and for someone to dump the tree between my rhododendron and hedge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely was not there this morning. We went out at 10am and came back at 1pm and we could see it sticking out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee if the person had just tapped my door to ask if I could get rid of it for them then that would be different. I cannot afford the garden uplift myself hence why my sister has had to take the garden waste away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Judy has contacted Edinburgh Council to try to arrange an uplift. Edinburgh Council have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh pensioner has hit out at a fly tipper who dumped a Christmas tree in her front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,51973,1102,37802,51974,397,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-115223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christmas-tree","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-council","12":"tag-front-garden","13":"tag-garden-waste","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114536369581502736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}