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🐣HELLO FORKERS 🐣 April ā€˜23 šŸ£šŸ‡

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2023
    My son didn’t have a gap year … he seems to have saved his ā€˜adventures’ for a bit later on 🄓 … until now the worst one involved receiving a 2am phone call from him telling me he was in a Russian jail … not sure quite what he expected me to do about it … the plane had been diverted and had landed in a part of Russia not covered by his Visa … he was only in jail for two days and apparently the guards were very nice to him when they discovered he could speak a bit of Russian … they asked him to teach them some English.Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LatimerLatimer Posts: 1,068
    @Bee witched they do seem to come with more than the others but are still a bit more pricey. The things that's selling it for me more than anything is the height! I'm 6ft tall and the halls one I was looking at is 6ft2" internal at the ridge, I'd be hunched over the whole time!

    @Pete.8 I've currently spotted one on FB marketplace with lots of extras for less than half price! If I can get that it'll be a bargain!
    I’ve no idea what I’m doing.Ā 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Latimer … is it possible to increase the height by erecting it on a brick plinth?Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Well-spotted @Latimer fingers x'ed it's the one for you!!

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    Billericay - Essex

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  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hi @Latimer,

    My husband is 6' 4"Ā  ... so height was an issue we considered before buying.

    Hope you get the one on FB.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish BordersĀ Ā 

    A singleĀ bee creates just oneĀ twelfthĀ of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I have had my fair share of visiting somewhat dangerous locations, although all were working rather than holidaying.
    I too spent time in jail in Lagos. I was due to be working in a mission hospital and had taken a lot of drugs with me, including all the relevant paper work. Unfortunately they thought I was a smuggler, and I was locked up for 48 hours, in a cell with about 20 others, very scary.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2023
    But you phone your mum at 2am UK time and say ā€˜mum, I’m in jail’ @punkdoc? 😱

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I never told my Mum about any of my trips, I don't think she would have been very happy if I rang and said I am just off to Iraq for a few weeks!
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Realised that I haven't posted today. Now it's bed time so I'll have to read back tomorrow.

    We've been quite busy, booked our next trip from France to Norfolk and back, Dieppe Newhaven ferry. We'll spend a weekend with OH's daughter and also see my sister who will be celebrating her birthday. On the way back I've booked a hotel near a pretty French town en route as the ferry gets in at 4pm and I don't want a 7 hr drive that late. Ryanair have got much more expensive and the trains keep going on strike.

    Then we did the weekly shop.

    This afternoon I did more moss raking and sowed more grass seed on the lawn in the front and I sowed grass in the back where the moles had made a mess last year.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊 ā˜•ļøĀ 
    An early start here … getting ready to take son to clinic at Broomfield … ā˜•ļø ā˜•ļø ā˜•ļøĀ 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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