It's in my blood
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:11 pm
This is me with my maternal grandparents at the age of two. That's my very first wheelbarrow
I couldn't help but notice you grew better carrots then, than you can now.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:23 pm
Dear Chantal, what a lovely photo, and full of memories i should think.
I couldn't help but notice you grew better carrots then, than you can now.
I couldn't help but notice you grew better carrots then, than you can now.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:07 pm
ooooooh! you soooo cute I was such an ugly child,mind you still av;nt improoved with age 
I was such an ugly child,mind you still av;nt improoved with age Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:59 pm
Dear Grock, i thought you looked gorgeous in the Malvern photo.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:14 pm
Better carrots than I can grow now too OH
I have another photo somewhere, taken on the same day, which I've been trying to find. This one turned up as my mum and I were sorting out my grandmother's home last week. She's finally gone into care (93 and crackers) so I think I'd rather remember the old days...
I have another photo somewhere, taken on the same day, which I've been trying to find. This one turned up as my mum and I were sorting out my grandmother's home last week. She's finally gone into care (93 and crackers) so I think I'd rather remember the old days...
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:23 pm
Well O.H keep up that type of talk with a girl like me and it will get you anywere you want
You are naughty,but i like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are naughty,but i like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:27 pm
Dear Grock, i was brought up to always tell the truth, this has got me into trouble a few times though. 
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:29 pm
well you carry on just as you are I like it 
I like it Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:21 pm
Well really Chantal, I don't know what you are going on about.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:37 pm
Nice barrow Peter
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:18 pm
:wink: Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:22 pm
Come on Chanters - a photo........please..........
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:04 am
I see our Clive developed his grass mutilation tendancy quite early!
The joys of the infernal combustion engine.
The joys of the infernal combustion engine.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:58 pm
Hello Peter,
It's a Qualcast B1 sidewheel pushmower in the photo...the first real mower I ever used. ..in action reclaiming my Grandfathers orchard.
I had attempted mowing at an earlier age but failed as it was in fact the ewbank carpet sweeper that I had taken onto the front lawn whilst Mum wasn't looking.!!
At Grandfathers I used the Qualcast B1 but at home I moved onto a Qualcast Super Panther roller type push mower then a Webb Witch with better spec' cutting cylinder and ratcheting split rear roller...petrol powered products only came into my world by twist of fate in 1980/81 or thereabouts...
..thinking on though...I did used to "help" our neighbour mow his lawn many years earlier...I used to walk alongside holding one handle as he mowed along with his late 1940s Atco/Villers 2 stroke...
We have some video transfered from cine of me with my little wheelbarrow when brand new. The barrow was a gift from family friends, they shot the cine film of me trundling it around their lawn
Years later, once proficient with full size barrow, I worked for these friends as my first gardening job during school holidays...
The funny thing about my little barrow is that the pressed steel contruction..deemed a light weight childs toy...is now the method of contruction for full size barrows.!!
Clive.
It's a Qualcast B1 sidewheel pushmower in the photo...the first real mower I ever used.
..in action reclaiming my Grandfathers orchard.
I had attempted mowing at an earlier age but failed as it was in fact the ewbank carpet sweeper that I had taken onto the front lawn whilst Mum wasn't looking.!!
At Grandfathers I used the Qualcast B1 but at home I moved onto a Qualcast Super Panther roller type push mower then a Webb Witch with better spec' cutting cylinder and ratcheting split rear roller...petrol powered products only came into my world by twist of fate in 1980/81 or thereabouts...
..thinking on though...I did used to "help" our neighbour mow his lawn many years earlier...I used to walk alongside holding one handle as he mowed along with his late 1940s Atco/Villers 2 stroke...
We have some video transfered from cine of me with my little wheelbarrow when brand new. The barrow was a gift from family friends, they shot the cine film of me trundling it around their lawn
Years later, once proficient with full size barrow, I worked for these friends as my first gardening job during school holidays...
The funny thing about my little barrow is that the pressed steel contruction..deemed a light weight childs toy...is now the method of contruction for full size barrows.!!
Clive.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:49 pm
Peter and Clive,such cuties I love looking at old victorian pictures
Where cameras around in O.H childhood times
I love looking at old victorian pictures
Where cameras around in O.H childhood times