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peter
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jopsy wrote:naked gardening is best
im thinking of doing a series
Pray do Jopsy
, but when you do the one on allotment clearance please get the sound recordist to turn the volume down, alot 
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Nettles, brambles, blackthorn and thistles.
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When I was a little lad and wanted to be a gardener like my dad he gave me a patch to grow veg on and helped me with it, well did all the work and I sowed some seeds.
The next year, once I'd learned a little, I decided I should take my barrow and spade off to the dungheap and help myself to some well rotted manure.
Trouble is at that age you think everything digs the same. Loose well rotted dung has zero resistance to someone pulling on the spade handle after shoving the blade right in.
Thats right I went backwards, in my little wellies and shorts, straight into the large well grown nettles. I was heard returning home at some distance.
The next year, once I'd learned a little, I decided I should take my barrow and spade off to the dungheap and help myself to some well rotted manure.
Trouble is at that age you think everything digs the same. Loose well rotted dung has zero resistance to someone pulling on the spade handle after shoving the blade right in.
Thats right I went backwards, in my little wellies and shorts, straight into the large well grown nettles. I was heard returning home at some distance.
Do not put off thanking people when they have helped you, as they may not be there to thank later.
I support http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/
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Well apart from the fearless Jopsy who braves the garden skyclad , seems we all favour the Compo look in varying degrees, so no clothing company is going to get fat off us lot.
Except Tigger of course - who seems to a have a pair of wellies for every occasion and some. The Imelda Marcos of the lottie maybe
Sue
, seems we all favour the Compo look in varying degrees, so no clothing company is going to get fat off us lot.
Except Tigger of course - who seems to a have a pair of wellies for every occasion and some. The Imelda Marcos of the lottie maybe
Sue
You spotted it Sue - I am the Imelda Marcos of all footware. I've got at least a hundred pairs of shoes, another 40 pairs of sandals, 20 pairs of boots, several lots of wellies/short wellies/wellie clogs;/whatever.
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Why would I want a £60 gardening apron with a hole in the front pocket from which I can trail a ball of string? My favourite gardening trousers (which I bought from a charity shop for £1, now have a split in the seam near my bum, so I can simply push the ball of string down there and pull it out from behind !! Who cares if it looks like a rat's tail !
I recently acquired via a surplus dealers a waistcoat with a large degree of ventilation and with a total of 14 pockets with velcro or zip as appropriate so I can carry with me as much clutter as I like. Regulars are secateurs or scissors,knife, string, labels and marker pen, car key and PMR radio to talk to the other half whenever necessary. Cost approx £27
Allan
Allan
Having rugby players legs I cant get wellies over my calfs so wear rigger boots now which are waterproof and lined so are quite toasty.
As for the rest its always shorts and a t shirt with a fleece if its cold, oh and one of a dodgy collection of hats, but always shorts.
Mrs P likes the combats though Peter along with a Norwegian army shirt (as modelled in another gardening mag recently)
As for the rest its always shorts and a t shirt with a fleece if its cold, oh and one of a dodgy collection of hats, but always shorts.
Mrs P likes the combats though Peter along with a Norwegian army shirt (as modelled in another gardening mag recently)
Primrose, oh Primrose....!
Like JB, I just can't stop laughing at the thought of the picture you've painted !!
You should develop this natural talent and send scripts into the BBC or something....
Like JB, I just can't stop laughing at the thought of the picture you've painted !!
You should develop this natural talent and send scripts into the BBC or something....
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. The good they do is inconceivable....
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Wellie - alas my dubious writing talents go unrecognised - at least by the one publisher to whom I sent my first novel! Am still working on my memoirs but don't think they will end up in the "Harry Potter" best sellers either. Still, maybe I'll get enough rejection slips to wallpaper the loo !