Author Topic: Mummy! Daddy! Nooooooooooo!  (Read 1718 times)

Tenuse

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Mummy! Daddy! Nooooooooooo!
« on: October 28, 2003, 14:47:29 »
Just had to share this tale with you all....

I work somewhere that has a lot of landscaping and a landscaping team. At this time of year they are blowing all the leaves off the paths and grass and collecting them up to be disposed of.

So, as I have just built myself a lovely leafmould bin out of posts and chickenwire, and my one bag of leaves I had collected barely covered the base, I asked the landscapers if they could bag me up some bags of leaves....

Last night I got a phone call that they were waiting in the store for me. My b/f arrived with car and we opened up the store, expecting to see 10 small bags of leaves. Instead we were greeted with 10 GIGANTICAL ENORMOUS sacks of leaves. We had to put the passenger seat down and the car was covered floor to ceiling in leaves, rustling as we drove to the allotment.

Oh, the allotment. Of course I had forgotten that IT WAS DARK and there are NO LIGHTS on the allotment. Cue lots of giggling and tripping over things as we put 3 sacks of leaves in the leaf bin by the light of a Christmas Cracker keyring torch!!!

I need to build some more leaf bins........

Ten x
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Young, dumb and full of come hither looks.

cdchater

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Re: Mummy! Daddy! Nooooooooooo!
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2003, 16:09:08 »
Cracking tale Tenuse! Who says Christmas cracker toys aren't useful!! You'll have leafmould coming out of your ears next year (not literally I hope)

Regards,
Claire
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Re: Mummy! Daddy! Nooooooooooo!
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2003, 16:26:45 »
:) :) :)

great story Tenuse, it'll keep me smiling all afternoon!!

I've been up to my lottie in the dark - its strangely good fun, like you're up to no good!

I've started collecting leaves for my leaf mould - raking up leaves from around the lottie site.  I'm sure everyone must think I'm going mad  ;)
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Re: Mummy! Daddy! Nooooooooooo!
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2003, 16:40:49 »
Clare, I think the lottie people on my site think I'm mad too! I was making my leafmould bin last weekend (with some plastic sheets with holes in I 'obtained') - one lady thought I was making a rabbit trap!!  :) :)
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