It is when you look in the mirror and see your Granddad looking back at you aged 97 you start to worry. Will I beat him, will I still be escaping from the care home and getting drunk in the club, being hauled back singing lustily "I will take you home again Kathleen" who happened to be the barmaid, as he did in a long and eventful life? I do hope so. Frank.
Hostafan it is not the fact we outlive them as I have my Parents but how we keep the memory fresh. I have a Peony I grew up with from his lovely walled garden, shrubs and favourite plants he grew. He was a gardener in the true meaning of the word up to the day he went to sort out the Garden of eden. "If you cannot eat it or sell it lad diven grow it" he was from Newcastle. He passed on his knowledge to me in terse one liners, "There nowt easy Lad you have to put the effort in to get out t'good" and "Short cuts only mean you end up in't mire". He fed the extended family from that small holding and held down a day job as a Haulage Contractor, went to bed with the sun and got up with it, he would be in the garden at sunrise, then do a days work and back in the garden until sunset. My job was mainly the animals and learning, "one row for the wee beasties and two rows for us, we all have to live". I have to admit I steam a bit when I see is there a quick way to do, "what ever" in a garden, the answer is no but you have to be polite and educate at the same time. Frank.
@Allotment Boy well said, and that is why I get annoyed when they say we must pay more tax to cover it, cover their pay rises, expenses and pensions more like. @Hostafan1 you’re just a baby yet. Wait until you catch me up. 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I must say, Rainsingirl, you seem to have a suspiciously encyclopaedic knowledge of ductwork. Is it a hobby?
Nah - it's my job I once gave a whole CPD talk to a bunch of architects based around the things they got wrong in films about engineering systems in buildings. The only honourable exception I allow is Towering Inferno, which is so wrong it's really really funny. And anyway, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman in one film can't ever be completely bad.
I'd have been severely ice cream deprived as a child if Mum had stopped me either eating it after I'd dropped it on the floor or sharing it with the dog.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I know not everyone likes football (!), but it never ceases to amaze me that footballers such as Neymar roll around in a style that suggests that a. They will never walk again and b. The pain is worse than childbirth. That magic spray is something else. 🤕
I get so annoyed with ‘anxiety’ ads on tv. Plan for your funeral now, saves your children worrying about the money, why give Co-op your money to invest, you can do that yourself.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Lyn my Mum used to tell us about her granny, when the co-op man was trying to sell her a funeral policy she told him "I don't need that, when the time comes they will bury me for the smell if nothing else"
But Lyn, you get a fee Parker pen And how skinny is that woman in the advert, bearing in mind that TV is supposed to make you look fatter than you really are?
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Frank.
He was a gardener in the true meaning of the word up to the day he went to sort out the Garden of eden. "If you cannot eat it or sell it lad diven grow it" he was from Newcastle.
He passed on his knowledge to me in terse one liners, "There nowt easy Lad you have to put the effort in to get out t'good" and "Short cuts only mean you end up in't mire". He fed the extended family from that small holding and held down a day job as a Haulage Contractor, went to bed with the sun and got up with it, he would be in the garden at sunrise, then do a days work and back in the garden until sunset. My job was mainly the animals and learning, "one row for the wee beasties and two rows for us, we all have to live".
I have to admit I steam a bit when I see is there a quick way to do, "what ever" in a garden, the answer is no but you have to be polite and educate at the same time.
Frank.
@Hostafan1 you’re just a baby yet. Wait until you catch me up. 😀
I'd have been severely ice cream deprived as a child if Mum had stopped me either eating it after I'd dropped it on the floor or sharing it with the dog.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Plan for your funeral now, saves your children worrying about the money, why give Co-op your money to invest, you can do that yourself.
And how skinny is that woman in the advert, bearing in mind that TV is supposed to make you look fatter than you really are?