Fifty years of trial and error have taught me about gardening/soil conditions and weather effects in my own patch but there's a limit as to how much of that knowledge is transferable to others.
TO MAKE AN EXERCISE IN IRONY YOU'D HAVE TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FRAMES AND HANG THEM ON A NAIL
BUT THAT WOULD BE A SHAME ((HUGS)) - WHATEVER ELSE THEY REPRESENT THEY SHOW HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION, AND A REBUKE TO AWFUL UNKIND HEADTEACHERS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
MINE LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN MRS DOUBTFIRE AND HYACANTH BOUQUET
I LEFT SCHOOL STRAIGHT AFTER 'O'LEVELS - PARENTS PUT ME ONTO A SHORT SECRETARIAL COURSE AND I JUST GOT ON WITH EARNING A LIVING, GETTING MARRIED AND RAISING A FAMILY.
YEARS LATER WHEN WONKY AND HER BROTHER WERE GROWN, I TOOK MY PORTFOLIO ALONG AND GOT MYSELF INTO ART SCHOOL AND PUT MYSELF THROUGH MY DEGREES IN MY 40S. MANAGED TO PICK UP AN ART STUDENT FOR MYSELF ALONG THE WAY
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I celebrated my 40th in a basement with a load of art students
Wonky did her degree as a grown up too - she'd been so ill through her teens and twenties (ME) but in her 30s she got herself into Uni - graduated in July 2012 and got married on 4th August, right in the middle of the London 'lympics.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I don't have any horticultural qualifications either Logan, but I do have scars .......... do they count?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fifty years of trial and error have taught me about gardening/soil conditions and weather effects in my own patch but there's a limit as to how much of that knowledge is transferable to others.
MUCH THE SAME AS PANSYFACE
'COULD DO BETTER'
'INTELLIGENT BUT LAZY' SAID THE TEACHERS
BORED, SAID ME
I HAVE SOME SUSTIFFICATES NOW
In the sticks near Peterborough
Dove, scars count.
PANSY, DID YOU HAVE THE SAME HEADMISTRESS AS ME???
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
TO MAKE AN EXERCISE IN IRONY YOU'D HAVE TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FRAMES AND HANG THEM ON A NAIL
BUT THAT WOULD BE A SHAME ((HUGS)) - WHATEVER ELSE THEY REPRESENT THEY SHOW HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION, AND A REBUKE TO AWFUL UNKIND HEADTEACHERS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
MINE LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN MRS DOUBTFIRE AND HYACANTH BOUQUET
I LEFT SCHOOL STRAIGHT AFTER 'O'LEVELS - PARENTS PUT ME ONTO A SHORT SECRETARIAL COURSE AND I JUST GOT ON WITH EARNING A LIVING, GETTING MARRIED AND RAISING A FAMILY.
YEARS LATER WHEN WONKY AND HER BROTHER WERE GROWN, I TOOK MY PORTFOLIO ALONG AND GOT MYSELF INTO ART SCHOOL AND PUT MYSELF THROUGH MY DEGREES IN MY 40S.
MANAGED TO PICK UP AN ART STUDENT FOR MYSELF ALONG THE WAY 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Beat you to it Dove. I graduated two weeks before my 40th.
I celebrated my 40th in a basement with a load of art students
Wonky did her degree as a grown up too - she'd been so ill through her teens and twenties (ME) but in her 30s she got herself into Uni - graduated in July 2012 and got married on 4th August, right in the middle of the London 'lympics.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm good at drawing, I did pass an exam, it was biology. Had to draw a heart with all the tubes going in and out, the valves.
Had to do it from memory.
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