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Percy Thrower quote
simonthescribe
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Years ago, on UK Radio 4 I heard one of the panelists say 'We don't waste nothing in the garden'. Now I am working on a book about recycling in the garden and have an inkling this might have been Percy Thrower - can anyone out there confirm that it was just the kind of thing he might say so that I can attribute the quote? Many thanks in anticipation.
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I don't know much about Percy Thrower but I would hope he wouldn't use a double negative in a sentence!
Same here and he was a bit chemical happy ad not necessarily into recycling or concerned about environmental sensibilities.
I doubt if the beeb would have employed someone who didn't talk proper in those days
In the sticks near Peterborough
Seem to have memories of reading my Fathers Percy Thrower book and writing up a long list of chemicals to buy the next day.... ah the good old days.
I went to a talk by an old style fuchsia man recently. He started with chemicals, then there were more chemicals and then a bit about fuchsias. It was a different world to the one I inhabit. There's be no time for gardening with all the attention they need
In the sticks near Peterborough
There's a clip on Youtube of Percy Thrower doing an interview on how great the introduction of colour television was for gardening programmes. He does sound pretty well spoken and not as if he would have been careless with his grammar!
Obviously i have heard of Percy Thrower, hence the username, he was the first shall we say tv gardener that i had seen, but alas i was more a blue-peter fan than a gardening fan in those days, i am in my forties now, but if my childhood memory serves me right he did garden on blue-peter at some stage didn't he? i seem to recall a sunken garden and being impressed as a kid...
Double negatives really bug me, I can't imagine someone from back in those days on the BBC using a double negative, or saying 'so and so and ME' as they do now......I always say it should be 'I' and if someone uses a double negative I have to stop myself correcting them, unless it's my boys of course.......Can't to do nothing right!!! Grrrrrrrrrr
..perhaps more Clay Jones than Percy Thrower....at a guess...Welshman Jones was a bit more down to earth, so to speak...