Thanks Dove, I was wondering if my education missed a meaning somewhere! Think it's a word that has had its meaning alter through time perhaps...I'm not 27 yet! 😉
Wench is not the equivalent of woman except perhaps in its most archaic usage. It’s usually qualified by ‘buxom’ or ‘serving’ and nowadays its most common usage is to refer to a prostitute.
Don’t suppose anyone would call Carol or Rachel de Thame ‘wench’ ...
Frances Tophill is a 30 year old woman with a horticultural degree as well as practical horticultural qualifications and has published two books on gardening as well as being a presenter on several tv gardening programmes.
The president of the RHS was on the radio just this week expressing concern at the difficulty of attracting young people into horticulture. It’s hardly any wonder if achievers in horticulture are referred to in pejorative terms just because she’s young(ish) and female.
Just saying
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes Dove, that's the trouble different words mean different things to different people dependent on context of the person using them and what they are discussing. I'm sure no offence was meant, I was just surprised. Obelixx, your a highly skilled, knowledgeable gardener yourself, and if never refer to you that way but like I say, times change and so do meanings, sorry to have raised it and didn't mean to cause offense in doing so 😊
I wonder if hantonko101 has come here because discussions about presenters and presentation have been banned by the Administrators on the GW Magazine FB page, along with discussions about animal mess in the gardens, artificial turf, and a number of other subjects. Their reasoning being that information on these subjects can be found by doing a site search. Isn't that true of nearly every question which can be asked?
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a professional young woman.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don’t suppose anyone would call Carol or Rachel de Thame ‘wench’ ...
Frances Tophill is a 30 year old woman with a horticultural degree as well as practical horticultural qualifications and has published two books on gardening as well as being a presenter on several tv gardening programmes.
The president of the RHS was on the radio just this week expressing concern at the difficulty of attracting young people into horticulture. It’s hardly any wonder if achievers in horticulture are referred to in pejorative terms just because she’s young(ish) and female.
Just saying
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I suspect the OP’s intention was to stir up argument 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.