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[Abernovo]

Hooray for home-grown food! Always tastes better than the shop-bought stuff.

But what really caught my eye: you can get pop-up greenhouses?

[springs]

Bargain last year in Poundstretcher £7.00, you slot a couple of bits together and stick the cover on it. But you can buy pop up ones, like the tents, that just go be-ding! (technical term, that), and they are up.
These I am coveting and may pay up to £10 for one. Anyone, the little one I used last year took about 10 tomato plants and most of the hardening off seeds.

(Now, the other half just has to get down to the plot, and de weed. Lots..... I do not do such things, being a laydee, I supervise instead. )

[Mouse]

Springs, we have a gardening thread around somewhere. Would be good to resurrect it again! I've got taters to do this year.

[Geddon's Wall]

Thanks, Vertigo.

[Geddon's Wall]

Originally Posted by springs1971

Bargain last year in Poundstretcher £7.00, you slot a couple of bits together and stick the cover on it. But you can buy pop up ones, like the tents, that just go be-ding! (technical term, that), and they are up.
These I am coveting and may pay up to £10 for one. Anyone, the little one I used last year took about 10 tomato plants and most of the hardening off seeds.

(Now, the other half just has to get down to the plot, and de weed. Lots..... I do not do such things, being a laydee, I supervise instead. )

Just like the head gardener @ chez Geddon. Now I'm on my own I have to do the supervision as well.

[Geddon's Wall]

Mouse, Got fruit trees this year. looking forward to apples, pears, plums and cherries, if the birds don't get them first.

[Perpetual Man]

Managed to make serious inroads on the Summerhouse this weekend, I ache from head to toe, but it's in a good way. Just one more thing to do and I can get the old setee up there and then we can start moving things...

[StormFeather]

Originally Posted by dask

Just heard the message on my answering machine. I return to work Thursday morning. Wah-hoo!, I feel like one of Sgt. Fury's Howling Commandos. Amazing how quickly the fetters of despair crumble into unbridled joy.

Sorry dask - I'd meant to say how happy I was for you, but got depressingly distracted. I hope that the work is everything that you wanted it to be.


For me, today was a big day. I've spent the last few weeks stressing about an event that happened today. At the beginning of the year, I missed a PTA meeting, during which I got 'volunteered' to 'help' organise the school's Easter Egg Hunt. My co-conspirator then suffered a bout of being under the weather, so I ended up organising the bl**dy thing.

Now, I can work as hard, or harder, than the rest of the PTA, but make me responsible for the actual event . . . I've had real nightmares, cold sweats, and panics about this over the last 3 weeks.

Today though, with lots of support from friends and the rest of the PTA, we arrived on the Tonbridge Castle lawn, put up signs and bunting, sorted out the refreshments, the prizes for the Easter Egg hunt and the Mystery Word competition. I manned the 'Hook-a-Duck' stall, and the 'Guess the no of sweeties in the jar', neither of which had featured in previous Hunts.

Upshot of the whole thing, is that within an hour, we managed to raise £771. Still have to take out expenses, but I'm pleased. It was sunny, there were loads of families, the Castle grounds looked great, and everyone seemed to have a great time.

Pretty sure I won't be doing it next year though!!!!

[Vertigo]

Well done SF. I'm impressed! I, too, would be mortally terrified if something like that was dumped on me. Be careful though, you know the old trick of hubands breaking dishes to get out of the washing up. Well the opposite holds true; now you've done such a sterling job...

[Daisy-Boo]

I just became a great-aunt for the umpteenth time. One of my nieces gave birth to a healthy baby boy on 30 March!

(I think this brings the tally of grand-nieces and nephews to 19. And I have 17 nieces and nephews. )

[Vertigo]

Congratulations HB, though I'm not sure that's quite the right word

[Daisy-Boo]

Thanks Vertigo!

[Menion]

Just booked a week in Amsterdam! Plus I'm in Scotland for a day before and after.
Since I live in Spain it'll be good to see my old friends again. And theres a big secondhand bookshop there where suposedly you can find some real old gems.

[springs]

Finally! I got one of my courses confirmed, paid for and ready to run! It means a couple of overnights up at the maiden city, but I can very easily live with that. Much relief all round...

[Interference]

Hooray for relief

And Hooray for the Great Daisy-Boo - too -