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One must wonder if O H got a pair. :wink:
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None for me, Shallot Man, but i am expecting that someone will be popping round to measure me up.... :)
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oldherbaceous wrote:None for me, Shallot Man, but i am expecting that someone will be popping round to measure me up.... :)



That's one heck of an undertaking. :D Anyway there happens to be a queue old chap

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Hi Primrose!

There is a container load in transit for OH if it is based on the most posts! ;) ;)
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He,ll probably end up with a container load of left hand gloves.........or right hand ones.
I remember years ago when ainwas a child my grandmother once gave me a pair of gloves for Christmas which had two gloves for the same hand. I expect one of my other cousins probably got the other mismatched pair ! But then she always did give very strange presents which had normally been pulled out of her storage cupboards. Her prize trick was giving you a box of chocolates which had been gifted to her decades previously and were so old they had developed white crystals all over them.

The family all laugh about it now we,ve grown older but as a child, these gifts could be a source of bitter disappointment.
Still I,m sure OH will find some innovative ways of using whatever comes his way, even if he hangs them all out as bird scorers.
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My hands are like shovels(so I'm told), rarely find gloves that fit my hands
Been gardening for over 65 years and still learning.
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I'm still looking for all the right hand gloves my partner has lost around the garden. I would love to know where he's put them so I can reunite them with all the pristine left hand ones. He might be more careful if I made him buy them.
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Plum, wait another 12 months and as I don’t think worms eat rubber, and it will probably turn up up in the middle of your compost heap !

Incidentally I went to a talk on composting a few months ago. The speaker was an enthusiastic composter who also kept wormeries who demonstrated a pair of old cotton trousers with a small proportion of Lycra in them that had been put into a compost heap. All that remained of them A year later was the stringy Lycra bits which could be a crumpled up into a small ball. Not sure rubber based gardening gloves would disintegrate or be eaten by worms to the same extent.
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I'd thought that might be one place they would turn up Primrose but he's been allocated the compost turning job so he probably puts any that he finds in the bin so I won't be cross.

I don't usually compost cotton but wool clothing breaks down well if you cut it up, I suppose I might try cotton too, they are nice hot bins when they get going and make compost very quickly in the warmer months, and anything that hasn't broken down goes back I the starter bin.
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