Topic: Christmas Gardening pressies!

[AikenDrum]

wardy, impale a big pumpkin on the top and bury the handle in a heavy clay pot, should keep him guessing for a little while anyway   ;D

[Dan 2]

You could get a large box and fill it with compost, you'd have a messy carpet though! lol  ;)

[undercarriage plan]

Had a think, then had another think, had pain relief and have a cunning plan!! Wrap spade, put box on one end, put box on other end, wrap the whole thing, then he'll think you've bought him a dumbell.... ;D ;D ;D ;)

[wardy]

Lottie  Brilliant  ;D    He'd think I'd gone completely bonkers  ;D   

[undercarriage plan]

Erm...hadn't he guessed...??? ??? ;) post pic with end result please!!!  ;D ;)

[redimp]

Never enough canes, one of those compost daleks (that would be fun to wrap!), growbags, a 24 can pack of Stella ...

Derekthefox :D

The only reason that I can think of buying Stella would be that the slugs won't drink it so you will have to.  Give me bitter any time and the slugs and I will argue over who is getting which one.  Not an arguement you can have about lager as they all taste virtually the same.

Wey hey - DtF and I disagree about something - it must be the harmonious atmosphere in the commons that has spoild the air around here. ;D

[Derekthefox]

Well I have my own opinions on lager but they are just that - mine, so there is no debate necessary. Still, life would be boring if we agreed on everything ...

Derekthefox :D

[wardy]

Stella is gorgeous.  No debate necessary.  No argument either  ;D

[redimp]

 ;D

[Derekthefox]

Well wardy has spoken ...

Derekthefox (smiling smugly ...)

[Shirley]

Just had a birthday and the OH bought me a wireless indoor/outdoor hygrometer/thermometer.  The transmitter sits in the greenhouse and the receiver in the living room, so I can check the temp in the greenhouse without leaving the armchair!  It only has a range of 25 meters so no good if you live some distance from your greenhouse.  Handy though.

[wardy]

Wow!  Get you.  How posh is that  ;D

I've put down on my list for my husband to get me Grow Your Own Veg book by Joy Larcom, and a wheelbarrow, thermal socks, and a nesting box  :)

As well as an adjustable spade (as he's tall) I'm getting him a deck chair for the lotty from John Lewis on line  :) so he can recline in the sun in it, drinking his Stella and listening to the away match on the wind-up radio

That's a good lotty idea - WIND-UP RADIO  ;D   I love mine  :)

[redimp]

Sorry to have appeared to have been in such a bad mood over the past few days.  It might have something to do with the fact that Debbie and I are getting precisely nowt and we can only spend about £20 each on our kids this year.  And it does not matter how much I personally dislike Christmas and think it is far too commercialised, my kids don't and don't and there are still all the pressures that society put on you to buy buy buy.

[Derek]

RC

I honestly believe that time spent with children far outweighs any expensive gifts... they often only last for a short while anyway
The Christmas break gives us that time if we choose to make good use of it...the legacy from that time spent will last forever.

Happy Christmas...and cheer up  ;D...BIG SMILE NOW!!!

Derek

[undercarriage plan]

Aww Clanger, couldn't agree with you more, really. Mine get £30 each and that's it, I was lucky enough that I used to be able to spend more, but not now. Last Christmas I really downsized everything, and was petrified when the day arrived, I thought there's be tears and runctions....but not a sausage....I ended up putting far more thought into what I bought, and not just piles of plastic crap.
I also find it hard cos the two eldest go to their dad's this year, I know they'll get the heart's desire, which is hard on the  2 youngest, but I know where their hearts lie....... game boys don't buy love, nor make Christmas, you do....now cheer up, cos I do have one more joke yet to tell....and you really really don't want that....reslly.... ;D

[Delilah]

thats tough Clanger, don't seem to have any platitudes to make you feel better except CHIN UP ME OLD MATE ;D and remember they love you NOT  the pressies!

UC I lived with my mum and got mega huge pressies and whatever money could buy from my dad - I am far closer to me dear old mammy than could ever be to my dad, i see him once or twice a year and he still knows how to flash the cash about but its like water off a ducks back to me cos my mum is one that has been there for me and I for her during good and bad times!!!!!!!!!!

[wardy]

I'm skint too Clang! Only bought one present up to yet and the credit card company has told me to bugger off.  On the good side I have a lotty full of leeks and a shed full of spuds.  Merry Christmas one and all  ;D

[wardy]

Quite so!  My sister split up from her daughter's father and she came home one afternoon after visiting him for the weekend and she told her mum that she much preferred her to him as "he never reads me a bedtime story".  It made my sister's day  ;D

[undercarriage plan]

Thanks Delilah and Wards! But it's hard to keep a civil tongue in me head, when he pleads poverty re child support, which is crap I hasten to add, whilst driving about in one of 2 mercedes!! LOL!! But hey, there you go, not worth wrangling over....I get a kinda kick out of not asking or commenting... Peace and lurv peeps!! ;D ;)

[Derekthefox]

Yes Redclanger, we may share the same attitude towards Christmas, but I still sympathise with your plight. Life is just not nice sometimes ...

All the best anyway (no bah humbugs in this post, except for that one, but that wasn't really a bah humbug, oh sod it, now I've said it twice ... )

Derekthefox :D