hi all from Worcestershire
Sue 17
Posts: 20
Hello all - its a bit of an odd intro as I stumbled across this forum looking for something else - but what the heck....
I have been a mad keen gardener all my life but age and ill health has meant I am selling my home (in the family since the middle of last century) and parting with all the things collected over the years, and believe me when you have a collecting nature and a large property you can really get a lot of things together.
Anyway now I have decided that I will part with EVERYTHING and put myself and - my great dane in some sort of motorhome and set off for an adventure round europe before it is totally too late to do something like that
which leads me to the point of the post. Hope its not too much of a cheek as a new poster - but here at my home next weekend there is to be a massive auction - over 1100 lots and there are many really interesting garden things, as until now gardening has been my passion
So there are seakale forcers, urns gazebos wheel barrows ....well I could go on and on.
As well as the catalogued items there are a further 350 uncataloged garden tools and miscellaneous items being sold on the day from ring 2.
As I say I wouldnt normally do this but hopefully the mods wont mind and I will include a link to the online catalogue
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An advert? back to my ignore button
In the sticks near Peterborough
Advert it may be but, assuming the sale is genuine, there's some interesting stuff there. Maybe some bargains to be had.
my ar$e
Sorry - I did feel a bit guilty about doing this as an opening post and if you would all feel happier I will take it off.
I have been on a few of the gardening forums over the years when I was able to do more, but over the last year or so I have been able to manage less and less - I also was a member of many of the poultry forums and if you have posted on those you may know me as darkbrowneggs from when I kept Marans
This is a link to photos of my house, which has, I hope now been sold
https://picasaweb.google.com/marose1234/TheGrangeOverTheYears02?authkey=Gv1sRgCKTOlefZhMbIGQ
but as I say if I have offended I am happy to remove the post
Advert or not, if I lived nearby I'd go, it's not like the adverts we get selling kitchens
now is it
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Enjoy your trip round Europe, Sue sounds like a nice adventure.
lots of lovely things you hv there i wish you are jz next door so i can take over all the gardening stuffssss!!!
Your house and garden look lovely, but too far away for me. I think this is genuine and it must be quite upsetting to sell your lovely house and everything. It's not at all like the kitchen ads we get here.
It isnt a decision I have come to lightly - I have loved living here, but I am getting older and the family arthritis is kicking in. I used to do so much. The veg garden is about 1/4 acre with deep beds and a polytunnel and greenhouse, There is a lovely little orchard with many fruit trees - even a mulberry tree with a seat round it. In all there are about 9 acres and I used to keep sheep and pigs, all sorts of poultry - even a milking cow and made my own butter
Time has taken its toll, and now I just see all the things I would like to do and would have done easily in the past and can no longer manage, So in a way that is making it easier letting go.
I like the idea of being somewhere new every few days. All the work I did here plus running a business and in the last few years looking after an aged mum meant there was little time for me and certainly no chance of gettting away on holiday,
So the next few years will be making up for that - at least that is the hope
There are heaps of lovely places to go in Europe for a few days. Europe is so mobile home friendly...in the South of France you can pull into supermarket's for the night on route to places greener with a mobile home