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06-05-2006, 09:26 PM
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 My dream gift would be for my partner's business to take off large scale so I can have more babies, and spend every sunny day tending my garden - on the rainy days Colin Firth will do my gardening in that wonderfully wet white shirt - hmmmmmmm! 
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08-05-2006, 03:38 PM
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| I know, I know, oh I have everything set, the alarm clock, the video, at last she is back!!!!  Don't know about you but Sarah Raven has grown on me as a gardener but Carol Klein just irritates me...as does Joe Swift...
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08-05-2006, 04:13 PM
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| Jo Swift - Aagghh! Don't get me started! I have had to give up watching gardeners world my OH got tired of me shouting at the TV! Ideal Gifts? Time to garden would be top of the list, chooks plus house for them, including fox proof run! time to garden, a larger greenhouse, time to garden, a computerised watering system (for after the hosepipe ban), time to garden, death to all slugs and snails, time to garden.... Is anyone getting a theme here? Wish the OM would read this! |
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08-05-2006, 05:14 PM
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| Carol and Jo need to go. Sarah is OK - posh bird in a crap coat - so is quite amusing. But bring back Rachel any day!!!
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09-05-2006, 02:01 PM
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| Andrew, I'm afraid Carol Klein is my favourite,down-to-earth, sounds like a Northerner(?), mad hair & hip replacements.Not too keen on Joe Swift though & can just about put up with Sarah.
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10-05-2006, 10:22 PM
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| Joining in late here but I want a finished greenhouse! It's getting there but still has gaping holes and no proper floor, been using the old aviary covered in polythene for the greenhouse! Failing that a finished garden with no brambles or bindweed...bliss!!! Oh and no snails 
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10-05-2006, 11:47 PM
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| Hi Gryfon and welcome Don't worry about gaping holes in your greenhouse - I have one pane smashed by daughter "planting" stones that my lawnmower pinged at it , one of the panes in my greenhouse door is held together with duck tape , and one whole side is "glazed" with hardboard ! It's full to bursting just now with peas, runner beans, climbing beans, carrots, calabrese, sweet peas, CCA salad leaves, leeks, lettuce, PSB, tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, tagetes and calendula. Hopefully most of these will be planted out next Tuesday - last chance before my wedding - so anyway, as you can see, you don't need to have glass to be able to make a greenhouse work, just mostly glass will do!
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11-05-2006, 09:02 AM
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| Rat, but surely post-wedding there will be either, an extra pair of hands to help with the planting, or and exile from the house? T-I-C 
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11-05-2006, 03:26 PM
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| The best gift I could have right now is a cure for marestail!!!! |
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23-05-2006, 04:28 AM
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| Parcel No. 1....A garden ( i live in a tower block) Parcel No. 2....A big box full of sunshine Parcel No. 3....A smallish container of rain Parcel No. 4....A medium sized box of time I can then mix them all together and end up with......1 perfect present |
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23-05-2006, 11:28 AM
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| 'fraid not Peter. But several of our guests have commented to OH on how lucky she is to have all this fresh veg at her fingertips and how much better it will taste, and how Iona will eat more veg if she sees it grown or indeed grows it herself, so maybe, just maybe, OH will stop berating me for spending so much time in my garden.
__________________ Rat British by birth Scottish by the Grace of God Blog updated Wednesday 17th September |
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31-05-2006, 11:45 AM
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| It's my birthday in a couple of weeks & I'm not sure whether to be extravagant & ask for some beautiful jewellery I've seen by a designer called Cherry Chau who does necklaces, earrings etc. with lovely little charms on them in the shape of watering cans, trowels, plant pots etc. or to be practical & ask for a slimline water butt.The jewellery isn't real, only costume, so not too expensive so maybe I can persuade my OH. to get me both!
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31-05-2006, 12:07 PM
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| go for the water butt!!!
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31-05-2006, 06:00 PM
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| Both!!!! If not, waterbutt would win.My birthday next month too.I've put various gardening items I would like on small list family keep asking for,but for some strange reason they don't like buying that sort of thing for birthdays.Tried to persuade them to buy slab each to do allotment paths,but no one would, so still have muddy paths!!! |
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31-05-2006, 07:44 PM
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| Go for the water butt - they apparently have been subject to the rules of supply and demand and are getting pretty hard to find in the South East of England-shire - the jewellery will always be available.
__________________ Rat British by birth Scottish by the Grace of God Blog updated Wednesday 17th September |
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01-06-2006, 11:26 AM
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| Like you Lyndap my family don't like buying things for the garden as presents-it's not a proper present! The only person who I get a present off apart from my O.H. is my mum-in-law & the nearest she'll get to a gardening gift is a stone squirrel or rabbit ornament(I've got a few!).
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20-08-2006, 10:10 AM
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| A tax exempt landrover pickup......a pair of 37" waist jeans(Hens teeth spring to mind)....an allotment within walking distance (still want the landrover though!) and a reincarnation of that well known gardening guru, Marilyn Monroe!!!! |
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21-08-2006, 02:29 PM
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| My children to enjoy my allotment as much as me and my hubby. At themoment i tell them to pack things to keep themselves amused, but after a while i always get "I`m board, what time are we going home!" This is the thing i wish most for! |
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21-08-2006, 06:33 PM
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21-08-2006, 08:30 PM
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| Oh Nick!!!
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