Houdini, fenced.

I have spent today out at a meeting this morning followed by lunch with my mother and finally waiting at my mothers house for someone to collect some shop fittings that I had stored in the garage.

When I got home I was told about what happened in Red's day today. She had been with Daddy to her swimming lesson, had half an hours sleep (she was woken by someone banging on the door) than after some lunch they had gone to play outside. Daddy had left her outside to come in and make himself a cup of tea, when he spied a little girl with pigtails, who looked remarkably like our Red, walking up the ramp at our elderly neighbours house. Upon speedy closer inspection, it was indeed her and he exited via the gate at the street end of our property, raced next door and retrieved her!

Our elderly neighbour, while lovely, is not keen on our idea to replace the hedge with a fence (even at our expense), so that isn't a viable option right now.

In the spirit keeping Red safe, I decided I needed to solve the problem RIGHT NOW.

I had an old MDF door sitting in the back porch that I ripped out while I was pregnant with Red (along with a built in cavity for the fridge the previous owners left). I also had some scrap metal from the frame of the net of our old trampoline which the wind took for a ride two Christmases ago (which, incidentally, I had planned to take in to exchange for cash this week)

With these two things in hand, and a rubber mallet, I turned this:

In to this!

It isn't terribly attractive, but it was the best I could muster at short notice.
She thinks it is very exciting! Menace!