The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

Fuddle good call to email the site warden...do you have any site officers who have plots who you can have a chat with about his behaviour? And maybe one of the other plotholders you have been on nodding terms with, could water for you when you go to the van? I know when I first got my plot I kept my head down and only spoke to one or two others.

pollyanna_26

Floss wrote: »

Fuddle good call to email the site warden...do you have any site officers who have plots who you can have a chat with about his behaviour? And maybe one of the other plotholders you have been on nodding terms with, could water for you when you go to the van? I know when I first got my plot I kept my head down and only spoke to one or two others.

Missed your post fuds . I agree with Floss . One for the site warden . A blight on all his stuff but isolated to his domain . Chin up pet , picture him as gammon of the alternative kind .
polly x

pandamonium

Wow so many posts over the last couple of days.

MMF your Dad's memorial service sound perfect.

LW I hope you are enjoying having Honey to stay and that the bad stuff has all gone back in its box. I'm sure everyone here will volunteer to sit on the lid to make sure it stays shut.

Taurusgb, gave a great time in York. I grew up there and miss it so much.

Fuddle, well done you. Many of us have been there. It would be wonderful to deal with things in a cool calm and collected way, but this is the real world and you had every right to be blazingly angry.
The last person I totally lost it with was a former business associate. I could have handled it better, but I was absolutely furious. I think I left him in no doubt about that . He still owes me a significant sum of money and I'm still quietly furious, I can't abide liars either.
You make a fantastic success of your allotment, Fuddle .

Just about to do battle with some Wundaweb. My last go wrote off the iron and ironing board - I caught the whole roll with the hot iron; you can imagine the rest :eek: .

Panda x

fuddle

Thanks all. I only have my friend on the plots but as its her who has also had a run in I doubt she would come on to his turf. We share a gate.

I need to give it some thought. I've probably cut my nose off to spite my face here but even if I didn't say anything I could never ask him again anyway.

Anyway. You're too good to me sometimes

Nargleblast

Email to: Mr P Seedling

From: The Secretary
The Allotment Association

Dear Mr Seedling

Our attention has been drawn to some recent incidents involving you and another allotment holder. We wish to remind you of the following clauses in the Rules and Regulations of the Allotments Charter:

Section 8 paragraph 4. Fellow allotmenteers are to be treated with courtesy at all times.

Section 11 paragraph 9. It is permitted to request another allotmenteer to act as caretaker in your absence. The responsibility for the care of the allotment and its contents lies with the caretaker.

Section 19 paragraph 1. Don't pi$$ off a Garden Fencer.

Signed
The Secretary

camelot1001

Brilliant Nargle. Perhaps we should get that bus out and pay him a visit!

monnagran

Oh dear. I wasn't good to you at all. I was just rolling about laughing. Sorry about that but the spineless git has been asking for it for so long and good on you for giving it to him. If there are retaliations just remember to log everything, take photos and keep evidence if available.

Polly, I remember the summer of 76 so well. I particularly remember having a hose pipe with many extensions going from the bathroom, snaking along a very long landing, dropping out of a window and stretching down to the vegetable garden so that we could siphon the bathwater out for the vegetables. Every drop of washing up water was carried out to the greenhouse and the whole country had a hose pipe ban. Reservoirs were empty and plants started to grow in some of them. There was a plague of ladybirds. Goodness me, do you think that might happen again?

Softstuff

Well, I've only just caught up. You lot really had a lot happening in my brief absence.

Well done Fuddle. I was seeing you doing it in my head, with the song from Chicago running, "He had it coming". What a little git. That said, I don't know if he was being malicious, ignorant or forgetful, but the lying would have set me off too. Dishonesty really gets my goat.

I've been charity shopping for a few days recently, and have been somewhat successful. Some may remember the expensive brand of sports bras I've taken to, well, they have very nice sportswear too. And when you can pick up a bra, a vest with a bra, a jacket and another vest, all in as new condition for about 20 quid, I think that's the best of bargains :rotfl: I also got a lovely pair of jeans for 3 quid (apparently a good label, online they were $320 :eek:) and another liberty print shirt for the same. Was very much in need of some new clothes, so all this charity shop success has been really fantastic.

As for thanking, I hit most. To my mind I don't have to agree with a post to be thanking the poster for the effort of joining in. My exceptions are if I very seriously disagree, or if I accidentally miss it! There's no telling which.

MMF007

camelot1001 wrote: »

Well done fuddle, what a nasty man he is. May his peas wither and his potatoes get blight.

What a lovely memorial for your Dad VJsMum.

Have a good break taurus, the first time I went away on my own was to Hong Kong, en route to Australia to meet friends. Once in HK, the realisation that I was on my own hit me and I burst into tears! I was 52. I gave myself a good talking to, checked my book for places I wanted to visit and set off. I must say it was the most fantastic 5 days and completely liberating, only me to please so I could go where I wanted, look at what I wanted to look at and eat whatever I wanted (although I mostly survived on rice and crisps!). Enjoy yourself!

Amazing recovery for your DH maryb.

We've had some much needed rain here, two claps of thunder yesterday but that was it. Everything in the garden is much fresher now but the grass has gone a rather alarming shade of black in places. I'm clearly not very good at distributing the weed and feed, some of it is in lines where I have thrown it. I have raked out 2 bucket loads of moss and am hoping the rain will help to green it up a bit. A gardener I am not!

Camelot, I'm glad it is not just me that is sometimes surprised to find I am an adult and have to do grown up things like travelling long distances on my own! I still get a sudden feeling of being grown up when I put fuel in my car :rotfl:

nursemaggie

Polly there is only one list it comes out every week. It covers north Manchester as far as Preston and Morcombe. It comes out once a week and covers all types of property from bed sits to 4 bed houses. There are about 75 properties a week, for all social housing across that are. At any one time about 20 of them from expensive Housing Associations who are asking around £125 a week for a 1 bed flat. The maximum housing benefit I can have is £84, leaving me £41 a week to find out of £170 a week. I think I would be struggling. All but one of these has been advertised every week since before I looked.

Obviously no one else can afford them. There have not been any sheltered housing in Bolton that I can afford for the last 4 weeks. It could be 6 months or more before one is empty. I hope you realise that for me to get one someone has to die.

The 1976 heat wave was preceded two days before it started with about a foot of snow on 3rd of June. Next door but one came back early from their holidays on the 4th so 10 days early. On the 6th my parents came round to borrow our camping equipment for a few days as the temperature was now in the 80s, they were gone for over a fortnight. They had never been in the Lakedistrict for so long without it raining.

I don't just have to replace doors but anything in the kitchen, the bathroom, and any windows not just broken be worn out too, if anything goes wrong with them. The quality of the things they put in is extremely poor. I really could do with having the walls re-plastered they are not in a good state at all, there are holes and bumps everywhere and the paint keeps falling off.