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  • LottiebeansLottiebeans Posts: 715

    Got told off by MIL for calling them OAPs - apparently they prefer the term 'seniors'.

    I also worried about the diving shoes - I think flippers might be better!

    Paining here again.

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Well am back -they call it diamond day cos I am a diamond-they are virtually paying you to take plants away-have come back with 5-not-full -trays of bedding and paid all of 52p-10 or so begonias were 5p-so I now have geraniums, begonias and more petunias-where are they going to go?

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    Geoff you must have a better store as mine are often half dead but full priced. I am worrying about Margaret though.

    Lottie when they move the retirement age to 75 we will be in a right muddle.

    There was a break in the pain so I have been out and chopped back a lot of plants that had flopped, I have also put some pea seedlings in a grow bag. The exciting news was that I found 2 french beans even though the plant is less than 2 feet tall.

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    She will be okimage

    Have tidied up the plants and discarded the mouldy bits-and now they look even more of a bargain-we had a short bright interval and took the opportunity to cut the grass it is so green and lush yet has not been fed- other than the odd chicken poo- for 12 months-a good year for the hay-makers?

    You and Lottie will never reach retirement age so I wouldn't worry- it will be 97 in 20 years time

    Eric Sykes has goneimage

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    My spade I have had for over 40 years has just snapped in half-I need a spade handle !!image

  • Joking aside my fork handle has broken. It belonged to my great uncle who would be about 120 if he was still alive. Have tried everywhere to get a replacement, but it is only a certain generation that understands the joke. My daughter works in a candle shop and every day the phase about "fork candles" is spoken and they all think it has been said for the first time. Any ideas where i can get a new handle!!!!!!

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Well maud-I was just in the middle of digging up this currant bush and it snapped showering dirt all over me-so not happy

    I think you can buy replacement handles-just looked and Amazon sell them

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/fork%20handles/products

    so am sure they are available elsewhere but as we in the throw away generation probably not widespread

    I am going to look at buying  a replacement spade one from a carboot sale

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    My lawn is not green it is going brown from the mud. I need a new fork too, why can they not have car boot sales in the afternoon?

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    It is for early birds although I have been to some where the sellers go on to one in the afternoon-other than I don't know-why do jumbles sales-if such things still exist- start at 2pm?

    Have planted out 30 begonias-cost 9pimage

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    I need some cheap bedding that looks expensive.

    I thought jumble sales had been replaced by charity shops and those odd collectors.

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