Edd - if I had a hat on, I'd take it off to you right now. You're such a good soul and it restores my faith in human nature hearing stories like that.
I know lots of people don't like decking, but in the right location it can be excellent. It's more forgiving than paving too - like when you drop something important and breakable...
Enjoy your holiday when you get the chance.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hello again you budding Gardens, not been around for a few days, hows it all going with you all we up here in Scotland are entering the fourth week no rain as yet they keep promising it but it never comes,
Currently i am being eaten out of house and home, i have a bird feeding station it has on it two seed feeders 2 nut feeders, 2 x 4 fat ball feeders two mesh trays for bread crumbs, and a dish of water, every day i put out 8 fat balls top up peanuts fill the mesh trays with freshly made bread crumbs change the water, i love watching the birds we get a wide selection, but of late a seeing 50/60 starling and they gannets
for the food that is put out its driving me mad, but i do not won't to stop the food because of all the other little ones, mostly sparrows chaf finches, blue tits etc. any one getting the same problem?
Chris. We have that problem - but there are plenty of bird feeders out there that have wire cages around them so only the small birds can get into feed - they work a treat. (An upturned wire hanging basket works wonders for pigeons on the feeding table!)
Im disabled, struck down by illness in my prime about six years ago. I'm 33 now. I am mostly housebound so being able to use the garden and get enjoyment from it has been a godsend. I only have a small garden but in truth couldn't manage a bigger one so I make the most of what I can. My wife helps with the lifting and muscle and my three year old with little bits and enjoys doing the watering (she loves it and it's nice to have something we can do together as I can't do basics like walk get to the park).
wish I had raised beds, i worry about things getting harder. Before I was ill I put in our path and patio and all sorts, wish I had the foresight to know id need raised beds.
hi folks, i am back in scotland after spending two weeks down south fantastic weather
i purchased in January 2 tickets for RHS Hampton court flower shower, well what a disappointment, after plashing out £100 on tickets car parking and mobility scooter loan for two of us plus the cost of petrol and accommodation, was it worth it No No No. i arrived at 10.30 parking and collecting the mobility scooters all okay then it hit me could i get around and see anything No, hoards of people ignorant or what would not move to let us pass some people even said direct to my face we shoulkd not be allowed in to these places and should watch it tv so buy the end of the day i managed to see the floral marquee with a great deal of trouble, and one world war one show garden that was all. very angry and very upset especially shelling out nearly £300 in total.
Ah the civilised race. The RHS court flower show has always been a busy event, I bet there were many people up on their two legs who didn't get to see everything they wanted - in fact I'm sure if you look around on the forum there'll have been people discussing it. Unfortunately that's a fact of life. Its a busy event and they don't seem to have the right balance of restricted tickets / crowd control so that everyone can get a front stage view.
Don't expect that just because you're in a chair you have a god given right to get some exclusive event and to the front of the queues all the time. Believe me I've spent enough time at backside height to learn that and it sickens me to think people are so bone headed they think the world should bend over backwards to help them all the time like the world owes them a princess crown and to be held above anyone else. I always found smiling politely got me to where I wanted to be - and occasionally into areas I really shouldn't have been but you only live once and if someone offers to let you in back stage why say no. Also making sure you didn't run over toes and weren't just as ignorant back helped...
But then again I read reviews of the event and heard it was insanely busy so didn't bother to spend ??300 on tickets / costings and instead watched it on the TV knowing that even if I could backwards flip through the crowds with all the grace of a gymnast it would have been far too busy to see anything much less had I been reliant on a chair view height. More money on the garden which makes sense to me!
Perhaps instead of whinging about it on here (which to be honest achieves nothing except that we all wonder what kind of person you are to feel the need to log onto a forum just to rant - lonely perhaps? Bored?) You should do something constructive like contacting the organisers of the show and suggesting they have "early hours" opening on at least one of the days so that the cripples, the elderly, infirm, the autistic, and the generally wobbly, can get in to see the event before the crowds are let loose. Who knows you might even strike lucky and start a chain of events that mean next year the scooter brigade get to have the place to themselves.
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Hello Edd, you are just the sort of neighbour we could all do with, well done A*****
Edd - if I had a hat on, I'd take it off to you right now. You're such a good soul and it restores my faith in human nature hearing stories like that.
I know lots of people don't like decking, but in the right location it can be excellent. It's more forgiving than paving too - like when you drop something important and breakable...
Enjoy your holiday when you get the chance.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hello again you budding Gardens, not been around for a few days, hows it all going with you all we up here in Scotland are entering the fourth week no rain as yet they keep promising it but it never comes,
Currently i am being eaten out of house and home, i have a bird feeding station it has on it two seed feeders 2 nut feeders, 2 x 4 fat ball feeders two mesh trays for bread crumbs, and a dish of water, every day i put out 8 fat balls top up peanuts fill the mesh trays with freshly made bread crumbs change the water, i love watching the birds we get a wide selection, but of late a seeing 50/60 starling and they gannets
for the food that is put out its driving me mad, but i do not won't to stop the food because of all the other little ones, mostly sparrows chaf finches, blue tits etc. any one getting the same problem?
Chris. We have that problem - but there are plenty of bird feeders out there that have wire cages around them so only the small birds can get into feed - they work a treat. (An upturned wire hanging basket works wonders for pigeons on the feeding table!)
Chris, you've probably got all this info, but it sounds as if Edd's neighbour may find it useful http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/housing-grants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Great thread This; thank you.
Im disabled, struck down by illness in my prime about six years ago. I'm 33 now. I am mostly housebound so being able to use the garden and get enjoyment from it has been a godsend. I only have a small garden but in truth couldn't manage a bigger one so I make the most of what I can. My wife helps with the lifting and muscle and my three year old with little bits and enjoys doing the watering (she loves it and it's nice to have something we can do together as I can't do basics like walk get to the park).
wish I had raised beds, i worry about things getting harder. Before I was ill I put in our path and patio and all sorts, wish I had the foresight to know id need raised beds.
hi folks, i am back in scotland after spending two weeks down south fantastic weather
i purchased in January 2 tickets for RHS Hampton court flower shower, well what a disappointment, after plashing out £100 on tickets car parking and mobility scooter loan for two of us plus the cost of petrol and accommodation, was it worth it No No No.
i arrived at 10.30 parking and collecting the mobility scooters all okay then it hit me could i get around and see anything No, hoards of people ignorant or what would not move to let us pass some people even said direct to my face we shoulkd not be allowed in to these places and should watch it tv so buy the end of the day i managed to see the floral marquee with a great deal of trouble, and one world war one show garden that was all. very angry and very upset especially shelling out nearly £300 in total. 
Maybe you should complain tithe organisers about it. Sounds like they should have done more to enable you to see stuff.
Don't expect that just because you're in a chair you have a god given right to get some exclusive event and to the front of the queues all the time. Believe me I've spent enough time at backside height to learn that and it sickens me to think people are so bone headed they think the world should bend over backwards to help them all the time like the world owes them a princess crown and to be held above anyone else. I always found smiling politely got me to where I wanted to be - and occasionally into areas I really shouldn't have been but you only live once and if someone offers to let you in back stage why say no. Also making sure you didn't run over toes and weren't just as ignorant back helped...
But then again I read reviews of the event and heard it was insanely busy so didn't bother to spend ??300 on tickets / costings and instead watched it on the TV knowing that even if I could backwards flip through the crowds with all the grace of a gymnast it would have been far too busy to see anything much less had I been reliant on a chair view height. More money on the garden which makes sense to me!
Perhaps instead of whinging about it on here (which to be honest achieves nothing except that we all wonder what kind of person you are to feel the need to log onto a forum just to rant - lonely perhaps? Bored?) You should do something constructive like contacting the organisers of the show and suggesting they have "early hours" opening on at least one of the days so that the cripples, the elderly, infirm, the autistic, and the generally wobbly, can get in to see the event before the crowds are let loose. Who knows you might even strike lucky and start a chain of events that mean next year the scooter brigade get to have the place to themselves.