Its not just gardening that makes me dirty. If I do any painting I get more over me than the walls, especially when using a paint roller, I end up with a speckled face and get blotches on my hair if doing the ceiling
Oh yes lily. Can't paint without that speckled effect. Very pretty if you get the colours right
And have you ever noticed on TV gardening programmes that they work on borders and the grass/paving/ gravel along side the border stays pristine? Not in my garden it don't.
Cripes I've just put on my scruffs (which seem to consist almost entirely of my partners old clothes) and managed to get mucky knees before I'd even made it to the greenhouse.
I'll gladly offer them a more suitable model - rosy cheeks, that old jacket too good to throw away but too scruffy to be seen anywhere other than the garden, slightly windswept hair, trousers with pockets stuffed stuff of twine / labels / emergency mars bar / ... , trim nails with mud that seems to have engraved itself into the edges... don't I make myself sounds quite the super model?
I wear surgical gloves for potting up as the compost does cause a small amount of skin peeling for some reason. So how come i still get dirty finger nails? No wonder they were two pairs in surgery.
Pockets full of mud so nothing else goes in them. And sweets are a definite no-no!
Just been informed that I am going to paint the bedroom ceiling next time it rains. i.e.. tomorrow. Must remember to wear a hat this time!
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used to fish the lower river dee at chester as a kid talk about mud larks
Oh yes lily. Can't paint without that speckled effect. Very pretty if you get the colours right
In the sticks near Peterborough
Takes hours to get the speckles off my glasses too!
And have you ever noticed on TV gardening programmes that they work on borders and the grass/paving/ gravel along side the border stays pristine? Not in my garden it don't.
Cripes I've just put on my scruffs (which seem to consist almost entirely of my partners old clothes) and managed to get mucky knees before I'd even made it to the greenhouse.
I'll gladly offer them a more suitable model - rosy cheeks, that old jacket too good to throw away but too scruffy to be seen anywhere other than the garden, slightly windswept hair, trousers with pockets stuffed stuff of twine / labels / emergency mars bar / ... , trim nails with mud that seems to have engraved itself into the edges... don't I make myself sounds quite the super model?
Whenever I step on a border, i get half of all that yellow clay on my flipping Welllies! And Clarington, that made me chuckle
Lol Clari, I wear some of my boys old clothes for the gardening too, glad its not just me that smuggles sweeties outside
I wear surgical gloves for potting up as the compost does cause a small amount of skin peeling for some reason. So how come i still get dirty finger nails? No wonder they were two pairs in surgery.
Pockets full of mud so nothing else goes in them. And sweets are a definite no-no!
Just been informed that I am going to paint the bedroom ceiling next time it rains. i.e.. tomorrow. Must remember to wear a hat this time!
When at the GP's yesterday I took a handkerchief out of my pocket .... and out came a load of old plastic plant ties
At least the doctor believed me when I said I'm getting lots of exercise in the garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.