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Hello and welcome to the vine Dizzi sounds like you've made good plans for your garden

Welcome to the vine Dizzi, a garden can be a great escape from everyday life........enjoy.

Hiya welcome to you... I know my sister is on a guinea pig forum so will see if the name rings any bells to her too


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Hello Dizzi, welcome to the forum

Hello
How many fluffy creatures do you have?

After a lifetime in London I moved out to retain what little remains of my sanity. Without a sanctuary of some kind, one that is your, you begin to feel like a wage slave.

Hello Dizzi and a big welcome to you and the fluffy ones

Hello and a very warm welcome to the Vine You'll find a few people on here who are also fond of Guinea Pigs.

I have 2 GPs of my own (they're my lawnmowers & weed processors), and 2 at school.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...etc_64000.html

We have made a raised bed specially to grow food for the GPs, plus they get many of the "weeds" that come up too

Welcome, you learn something new every day, there is no way I would have thought Guinea pigs had the intelliigence to have their own forum but I did know birds tweet a lot.
It sounds like your pretty organised, I too was a country boy hurled into the urban concrete jungle. The small village I lived in was idylic, we all knew each other and the local shop was a great gossiping place. "Mrs Keeling is pregnant again" "How do you know?" "She's had her hair done".

Hello and welcome from about as far from the concrete jungle as we could get.

Enjoy the forum and your sanctuary - you do see some fantastic & exotic London gardens.

Hi all, thanks for the welcome!

Yes guinea pigs are so clever, its my own fault, their house is in my study! Full access to the internet.

I think i have a clear plan, it changes but i spent the first summer just getting the big things done. We are lucky, the guy who owned the house before us was a gardener but we had many things to change like removal of broken childrens toys, the odd tree, application of new fences and a couple of gates to dog proof the garden. The veg are coming though! I cant wait to cook my own home grown veggies again! Eight years is too long! The furries will love the off cuts too. All veg are bunny and piggie proof.

I know how you feel about being in the village, our local shop was the hub, we all knew or were related to eachother, my mothers family was historic in the village, generations of them. London was a culture shock. No garden for that quiet cuppa, no bird table or grass, our downstairs did but we were not so lucky. Then we moved to a place where planting anything was frowned upon, even my heavy day with the shears and the awful grapevine was seen as "damaging", so we stopped doing anything but trimming the grass and hedge. I do miss the village but barnets not so bad, we have good transport and huge areas of nothing in which to walk the dog. Even saw combines and tractors harvesting this year yay!

The only big thing in the garden is hiding the railway embankment, it has trees, they are awesome, but the thorn comes over and there is the usual rubbish and foxes lurking back there. Apparently a street of male dogs makes foxes quite content to remain on the embankment.

You are right though guys, its my sanctuary, hubby is not that interested and leaves it to me. Its my rural time out there.

Cc


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