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12-01-2007, 06:35 PM
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 Alternative method of winter digging!  fingers crossed the picture loads ok. I have not got the skills so the eldest daughter has done it for me! Just returned from the lottie and thought that you all might appreciate a laugh on this wet and windy night! there is a surface water runoff dyke that runs between our allotments and the building site next door. The builders are redirecting this to improve drainage by putting a bit of a leg in it and joining the river at the bottom of our site. The site floods at the bottom end and so is not used and is very overgrown with brambles etc. - how does the old saying go "when in a hole stop digging!"       |
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12-01-2007, 06:39 PM
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| Nice one BG, certainly gave us both a laugh! Wonder if they'll get it out or not? 
__________________ Blessings Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby) 'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'!  The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress! Last updated 26th November2008 - more new piccies! |
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12-01-2007, 06:43 PM
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| They say that they need to bring another digger in to get this one out - tomorrow at 11, so we will be selling ringside seats from 9 lol. should be a good show! |
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12-01-2007, 06:44 PM
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| Cool, and then there were 2! (Both stuck in the mud! lol!)
__________________ Blessings Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby) 'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'! The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress! Last updated 26th November2008 - more new piccies! |
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12-01-2007, 06:51 PM
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| Only one thing to say to that - OOPS!!! |
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12-01-2007, 06:56 PM
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| Dyke side seats are £2, on top of the dyke are £3 (but the view there is brill!) Bring a picnic as we don't know when they are really going to start but it's sure to be fun. Oh and you'll needs at least wellies as it was already flooding when I left at dusk. |
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12-01-2007, 06:58 PM
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| Just have to ask - did they park it on what they thought was good ground and it went soft overnight or did they actually manage to 'dig a hole for themselves'? Sorry but for a female I have a strange love of earth moving machinery! |
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12-01-2007, 07:09 PM
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| Ooops! and I thought my lottie was waterlogged! DDL
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
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12-01-2007, 07:11 PM
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| The story goes like this. At 08:30 this morning I was down the lottie encouraging the builders to give me the fence they were taking down (good for a shed). After they had dropped the fence for us we had a wander across the overgrown area at the bottom avoiding the STANDING WATER as I didn't have wellies on only boots. Around lunch time they started dumping soil down their side of the ditch to make a 'roadway / crossing' to get the digger across to our side and divert the ditch and build us a berm to stop our allotments flooding (remember the standing water - plain for all to see). The JCB, see above, compacted the wet soil and drove down the slope and stopped to dig / move some soil. On he moved repeating this process, digging and building our berm. At this point you should note that at no point was any effort made to raise the level of the ground upon which he was moving. The point at which it all came undone was when he couldn't get back up the slope. After a few backwards and forwards moves he tried to dig himself out across the allotments. At this point the hole he dug filled up, remember the water. The hole was at this point below the level of the river. The rest is history. |
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12-01-2007, 07:13 PM
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| LOL - I must show this to my dad - we are in the plant and machinery field!! (but not so far in as the guy in the picture!!) |
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12-01-2007, 07:29 PM
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| What a glorious story! Thanks for the belly laugh, but the question remains, How did the driver get home???
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |
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12-01-2007, 09:05 PM
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| I got to hospital looking like a black and white minstrel. I would just like to take uppance at the sarcastic tone of this thread as I got a heck of a shock when the horizren disappeared from sight!!! I am on a YTS scheme and nobody showed me how to drive the damm thing!! It's alright for you lot laughing at my down fall, but I am here in hospital having mud pumped from my lungs and all orifices and with suspected trench foot! You'll not get me back in that flaming thing again and wait til they dig it out and find ny supervisor underneath!! I'll be up for manslaughter! Once I get the mud out of my ears I am going to get my passport photo and leave the country! I'm going to get a job in the Gobi dessert miles away from all the derision!! I HATE YOU ALL!!!!
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12-01-2007, 09:25 PM
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| Brookfield Growers: I was disappointed not to see it on tv tonight. Why didn't this make East Midlands News? Is it something to do with the fact that there's never much about Derbyshire? Surely someone took a video with their phone? (maybe tomorrow?) More to the point, Who are the builders? Snadger: you may find it would be possible to get bogged down in the Gobi Desert.....
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |
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12-01-2007, 10:06 PM
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| Seats are going well, looks like we may be sold out. We have tried to get the local news team here but they seem to think that they have dedicated enough time to Derbyshire this weekend, what with prisoners absconding from open prisons and all. That ground sets like concrete come june and plans are being drawn up for an adventure playground to keep the kids happy while we garden! we reckon a swing under the jib, a slide down the jib and a zip wire to the river should do it. After all its every little boys dream to drive a JCB. Snadger: we wish you a speedy recovery and thanks for a great afternoons entertainment! Have you every tried join the dancing JCB team? they may be interested in your fancy new moves! |
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12-01-2007, 10:51 PM
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| Excellent! That must have been brilliant to watch. If i lived closer I'd deffo have tickets to see that. As for the adventure playground, that every littluns dream. (and mine too if I'm honest) Kirsty  |
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13-01-2007, 12:13 AM
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| hiya, this is 'the eldest daughter' i do happen to have a name, but you know parents. i cant believe im getting up and out for 9 tomorrow morning to watch a digger pull a digger out a dyke (try saying that three times fast). i may have to get the olds to record it on their phones so i dont have to get up - that is if they are capable of remembering how to once ive shown them, (they are a bit slow when it comes to technolodgy). if we take any good photos we will be sure to post them at some point tomorrow. ive had enough of remembering how to spell things in full at this time of night, short hand is so much better. im going to have to go to bed now if im getting up that early. nite-nite Last edited by Brookfield Growers; 13-01-2007 at 12:15 AM. |
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13-01-2007, 12:17 AM
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| Looking forward to the latest installment chaps (and chapesses!). Snadger - you have the most wicked sense of humour! Long may you reign! DDL
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13-01-2007, 02:06 AM
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| Hi Brookfiield Growers Daughter. Join the Grapevine yourself and have your own username!!!! Last edited by Lesley Jay; 13-01-2007 at 02:08 AM. |
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13-01-2007, 06:21 PM
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 Hey, i got ma own username thing, (its the eldest daughter btw), they eventually managed to get it out! it took a while but they did it. here are some of the pictures, when we got there (above) and when the camera batteries ran out (below). hope you like them.  . . . not long after we got there, the driver jumped ship . . .  (again) oh well, he did get back in when they worked out how to get the thing out. lol. hope this is enough for now, im sure the olds will fill in all the boring details for you later. xXx Last edited by xXxBrookfieldPrincessxXx; 13-01-2007 at 06:22 PM. |
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13-01-2007, 06:39 PM
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| lovely pics Brooksfield Princess, thanks for the update. Am waiting to see if Central News carry the story!! Hope to hear more from you through the season - how do you like lottie-ing?
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |
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13-01-2007, 06:44 PM
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| erm, im not too fussed about it, i dont go down everyweekend, i do like a lie-in, and i dont like the cold, i will probably go down in the summer, work on my tan whilst digging or getting refreshments for everyone (the latter is most likely), unfortunately there were no news crews to cover the story  but even the builders were taking pictures. it was very funny.xXx |
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13-01-2007, 06:57 PM
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| keep reading here - it is also very funny (at times!) were there any fit builders? Gardening can be a bit of a pain when it's other people's stuff, but planting seeds, watching them grow, then EATING them - well, nothing to beat it for getting revenge! hope to see you around. all the best.
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |