Dig for Victory - Mark II

ixwood

She sounds clueless and horrible.

Why do facebook saddo's always tell you how many "friends" they have? Nobody cares. Including their "friends". Even the ones they've actually met.

ceridwen

Hmmm...vapid is the word that comes to mind here for her.My reaction to her article "Well....and your point is........just how much money did you make by writing that article?" 'Twas neither use nor ornament.

rhiwfield

I dont view the article as that negative. Yes she is a rather silly woman who cant muster a cohesive argument.

But the very fact she is arguing against allotments IS a sign that maybe the tide is turning. In the past the topic would have been beneath her, now its on the agenda and even attracting the attention of the chattering classes.

Just think, if GYO becomes more fashionable, she'll be writing about what to wear on the lottie

mardatha

....so NOW is the time for the newly unemployed to open a welly factory.
A tasteful shade of aubergine modom ? no problem!
Colour co-ordinated with one's kitchen ? no problem !
With, naturally, matching trowel.

ceridwen

Whats that phrase - summat about "At the heart of every crisis lies opportunity"?:D Speaking as a "survivor" - right....where's my opportunity then?;)

I've already got the wellies Mardatha...

Lotus-eater

That's not an article, that's a silly woman sitting next to you at a dinner party with slightly too much wine having been drunk during the main course.
A woman with an annoying, slightly posh voice, her kids go to a private school and she tells you how good it is.

Trouble is, I know several people like the one above and they are lovely, this Zoe is a waste of space. I hope her uncle Richard stops bringing her any produce from now on. Trouble is Zoe isn't the sort of person that would notice the difference between shop bought asparagus and freshly harvested stuff anyway.

betterlife

just read that article and arghhhhh!!!! god that womans annoying, does she live in the real world, if your saving i`ll offset it by buying a car, only people with loads of money could think like that. and as for if we dont spend the big shops will close basically or words to that effect then everyone would have to buy locally or grow there own is that such a bad thing. its like she`s not seeing the bigger picture, for 1 we are not all old if we grow veg im 31! and my reasons for doing so is better food for my family, environmetally friendly, teaching my children etc etc god i could carry on but my children are wanting breakfst .x

Larumbelle

"I've got more friends than you've got cows. How many cows have you got"
"I've got a hundred cows"
"Well I've got... a hundred and four friends"

Sorry, but whenever anyone bleats about how many friends they've got I think of Alan Partridge. Especially facebook friends. I ditched facebook around the point that I realised I had no idea who most of my 'friends' actually were, and if I have any desire to speak to the rest of them, I pick up the phone or go and see them like a normal person. I wonder if Zoe Williams actually lives in a Travel Tavern? :rotfl:

Seriously, though, it's the worst kind of middle-class bleating; if it doesn't fit into her nasty bourgeois thoughts and her nasty bourgeois ideals it's ghastly and wrong, but on the plus side it gives her the chance to fill her vapid little column with something other than other than whinging about how other parents make her half-arsed parenting appear inferior (seriously, I've read this woman's column before. I wouldn't use it to wipe my backside with)

It's so bad it's really not even worth a serious discussion. It's sad that people think that way, but the fact is, we know that they do! You see that attitude to a greater or lesser degree in most people, and it's mask for the fact that they feel guilty, and they know that something has to give, but they really don't want it to be their lifestyle!

2cats1kid

Hmmm self-satisfied is the word I'd use. How quaint, all these yokels growing carrots. I half had the feeling she wasn't so much worried about a bit of NT property being dug up, as that there might be people with wellies and forks spoiling the view while she was having her cream tea with strawberry jam in the tea room.

Larumbelle

2cats1kid wrote: »

Hmmm self-satisfied is the word I'd use. How quaint, all these yokels growing carrots. I half had the feeling she wasn't so much worried about a bit of NT property being dug up, as that there might be people with wellies and forks spoiling the view while she was having her cream tea with strawberry jam in the tea room.

Isn't that the truth! It reminds me of the Allesley Walled Garden I mentioned a few pages back. Allotments are so working class.