I think this thread in itself is a great argument against the "having a like button thread" I think making this more like Facebook with its social etiquette regarding "likes" would alienate a lot of people that find this forum a real companion.
Not having much in common with the city folk around me being a quirky country girl, I've found all the friends I need on this forum and feel blessed to have got to know them, love to every one of you that makes everyone feel less alone! 😊
I think this thread in itself is a great argument against the "having a like button thread" I think making this more like Facebook with its social etiquette regarding "likes" would alienate a lot of people that find this forum a real companion.
Not having much in common with the city folk around me being a quirky country girl, I've found all the friends I need on this forum and feel blessed to have got to know them, love to every one of you that makes everyone feel less alone! 😊
I think I should point out that @WonkyWomble could in no way be considered ‘elderly’ 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
True Dove but everyone can feel alienated in their environment. Most women my age all have children and therefore meet and mix in that peer group. Not only that, a country girl living in a town that dares to go out without make up, cuts her own hair with the kitchen scissors and doesn't give two hoots about fashion or celebrities...let's just say I'm pretty much sine in Ipswich!! Thankfully! 😉
Know how you feel, Wonky. I often cut my hair with the kitchen scissors! I'm as old as your mother and my daughter is as old as you, we are both country girls. I would have loved this forum in the late 1980s, moved to France in 1985, (first OH's choice) and I was so lonely. I'd lived on the edge of a friendly Kent village before.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Well I would imagine its very important, it is to me as a late convert to the joys of gardening - I have nobody nearby that shares my new-found passion.
Also, gardeners don’t stop being gardeners because they get older, infirm or ill and perhaps can’t garden so much themselves. Being part of an online community that shares your passion has huge value, not only to the gardener who is no longer gardening much, but to the grateful recipients of their years of accumulated knowledge and wisdom.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm following the wise advice of my mum. Anyone 10 years older than she is is classed as 'one of the older ones'. Mind you there can't be many of them left as she is 97. I'm taking loads of photos of my garden in all seasons so that when I can't manage to keep it how I like it any more I can look at them and pretend that's exactly how it looks now.
I'm not yet 50 but have very few friends who like or know anything about gardening. So this forum is a blessing to share excitement. I currently have two tenants who glaze over when I come in all excited about bees and roses and frogs in the garden. About as exciting to them as a fart in a lift.
I don't care how old you all are. What confuses me is I can never work out if I'm talking to a bloke or a gal ( am I allowed to say that , sorry if I'm not). Not that it matters whatever gender you are you all seem to me to be just great and long may you continue into old age enjoying your gardening and imparting that knowledge to the rest of us 27 year old youngsters.. .
Kili
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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Not having much in common with the city folk around me being a quirky country girl, I've found all the friends I need on this forum and feel blessed to have got to know them, love to every one of you that makes everyone feel less alone! 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Also, gardeners don’t stop being gardeners because they get older, infirm or ill and perhaps can’t garden so much themselves. Being part of an online community that shares your passion has huge value, not only to the gardener who is no longer gardening much, but to the grateful recipients of their years of accumulated knowledge and wisdom.
Kili
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'