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What ia an improper kid??
I help people all the time but only when help is needed. This is all an excuse not to take the kids out of the pram and put them back again. Just how hard is that?You've all got to learn to fend for yourselves instead of sitting there crying.This forum is not for help, it's for advice which I give freely and regularly. If I was on the plot in question I would happily pick the buggy up and carry it for the helpless waif but I'm not so I give advice instead. My advice is stop whining and get stuck in. She's making a problem where there is no problem. Women have been carting babes around for centuries without bother.
Some people are just so dammed judgemental on here today!! Jeeze get a life!!You have no idea what Brownowl is capable of as regards to pushing or pulling a double buggy. You don't know if she is 6 stone dripping wet and 5'1"and the kids are 2 stone each.You have no idea if she has to get to her plot uphill.You have no idea if the only times she can go to the plot is on the weekends, say 3 hours on Sat and/or Sun. Not everyone can get to their plot everday.
Brownowl, That's a bit selfish spraying weedkiller this time of year, what about your lotty neighbours, ;)
could you leave them with your family whilst you tend the allotment? Next year they will be old enough to walk. Get them a toy wheel barrow each and teach them how to balance it on the narrow path. It can be part of the fun, you could get them a little plastic gardening kit to put in the barrow. they would have to be good and careful or the tools would fall out! If you intend taking children to the allotment, as you obviously do, you will have to have eyes in the back of your head. Be prepared to consistantly teach them what not to touch, where it is not safe etc. The years go so quickly you will be surprised! :)
Barnowl, If you have an allotment association on your allotments why not approach them to see if they can put forward a bid to the Lottery Commission for a grant to make improvements to your allotment site one being wide paths for 'Buggies' from what I can gather £850,000 is up for grabs to improve allotments, :)
Hi Brownowl, not sure if this helps but I've seen a wheelbarrow that has adjustable width (not good at describing but basically its material bodied and is a bit like a material stretcher with a front whee)l...maybe that can avoid squishing plants at either side AND give the kiddies a fun ride :)Jackie
I am determined my boys are going to grow up enjoying producing food from seed to table just like I did.
I know some parents leave their children asleep in the car, but I know that's only practical if you can have the car close to the plot. Would it be possible to give them their own little patch to grow a few things in, may be when they're a bit older? Another neighbour takes his 3 year old grand son to the allotment and he has his own little patch where he has grown carrots and raddishes this year.Kitty Katt
Have they reached the gravel fetish stage yet? ;D