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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    'You'll have had your tea then' - it's a very Edinburgh phrase - I know nothing about that....image

    I used to love ISIHAC many years ago. Not the same without Humph though image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Jack Dee is no Humph but he tries. I still miss Willie...

     

    Rushton!

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    It's ok - I knew you meant him Steve...image

    I love Jack Dee. Did you ever saw Lead Balloon...brilliant! image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Yes.  Very good.  And nobody could follow Humph like him.

    Amongst Willie's many achievements IMO was Superpig, a riposte to Shirley Conran's Superwoman.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Pig_%28book%29

    Very amusing and, when I first read it, very useful.

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    ...and it's not just in ClueThe Doings of Hamish and Dougal has its own 15-minute slot, currently on R4X. 

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jr5r9/episodes/guide

    And the inevitable book.

  • 4thPanda4thPanda Posts: 4,145

    Where was your pic from Dove? It looks very much like the one at Hylands House in Chelmsford image

  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730

    The lovely Samantha - Humph really relied on her!  

    I'm going to rename the ditch at the end of my garden the Haha.  It sounds so much more classy don't you think?

  • 4thPanda wrote (see)

    Where was your pic from Dove? It looks very much like the one at Hylands House in Chelmsford image

    I found the pic online Panda - I chose it 'cos it really demonstrates how it works - it's from Titsey Place in Surrey  http://www.titsey.org/    Never been there myself, but the grounds and walled garden look lovely in the photos, and as I'm particularly interested in British native and rare breeds I love the cattle too.  image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    They have one at Levens Hall. We had a sort of semi one in my ex's garden. The cows regularly pushed their way through the old wire fence, but there was a decent enough slope and drop that could have been made into a proper ha ha. Would have been nice as there was a lovely view. He had a stretch of beech hedge about twenty feet in front of the fence and that could have been removed.

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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