Allotments 4 All
General => The Shed => Topic started by: markymark on December 13, 2003, 20:35:58
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Hi Folks
Just joined today! ;D
Am based in Essex and this will be my second year of allotmenteering after plucking up enough courage to give it a go.
Every minute has been worthwhile, even clearing my plot which took me about 3 months, once I'd cleared the whole site of everything from empty slug pellet bottles, concrete fence posts, chimney breasts, brambles etc.
Not to mention "chaining myself to the railings" after everyone in our Borough received eviction noticies! Well not quite chaining myself, but getting involved in petitioning and attending council meetings to save our site which I'm pleased to say has been succesful. yippeee.......
So much has happened in the last 12 months, I can't believe it myself!
Anyway on this miserable wet Saturday, thought I'd just say hello?
No doubt speak to some of you soon.
Fingers crossed for a dry day tomorrow! ::)
Greenman
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- wasn't looking, but suddenly saw this 'newest member' thingy.
Hope you get as much out of it as we all seem to. = Tim
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Welcome aboard Greenman! Nice to meet you :) Sounds like you had your work cut out for you last year! Chimney breast's! Does your lottie now sport a barbeque!! ;D
Dottie P
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Hello Greenman (sure you've only come from Essex?) ;D ;D and welcome!
Well done for sticking out with your council! Here in Birmingham I met a lady who stood in front of bulldozers to stop them wrecking more of the allotment site she gardens on - and it was one that was featured in the Lottie Programme which was repeated on the tele the other night, too. Apparently in the past 20 years the number of council allotments has been halved..although they got some sort of stay-of-execution, they're still not sure of their future.
Hope you enjoy browsing - check out the Gallery.Fab pix! And try to find Eric's Kamikase snail if you can - blows your mind (well, see what it did to our OzZiE...) ::)
You any good at panto's btw? Casting tomorrow and we're doing Robin Hood, written by Hugh, with ad-libbing by everyone else...lots of room for a man in Lincoln Green in Sherwood - Lishka
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Hi Greenman,
I'm a newbie myself. Only been here a few days. You will like it here, they are a great bunch. Well done with standing up to your council. Our village has been fighting ours for the past few years to stop a housing estate being built on our fields, thus joining us to the next village, and so far we are winning. :) Good luck with your lotti.....Pat
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welcome greenman
suzy
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Hiya Greenman, and as an Essex girl, I welcome you! Where in Essex do you dig? ;D
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Welcome Greenman! Well done for making a stand too. Supporting the Allotment Movement is a very "Just"Cause. Good luck in your allotment. :) busy_lizzie
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A big welcome from Scotland too Greenman and a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
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- well put more gin in it?? = Tim
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What a fab welcome, thanks folks and look forward to speaking with you again soon :)
Just to let you know Essex Girl (EJ) my allotment is very close to the Chafford Hundred development near to Lakeside. There are only around 40 plots on the Hogg Lane site, with 99% take up.
Made some excellent friends there, all from different backgrounds and age groups. Even been talked into buying some Xmas raffle tickets, the draw for which is next sunday......wonder if I'll win the "round the world cruise" or onion hoe?!
Feeling pretty poorly at the mo, with some sort of tum virus but managed to walk down there for a quick look ....always a good tonic!
Hope you all have a fab xmas and new year.
Greenman
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Hiya all.
Unlike me having an allotment, this forum is a new discovery for me. I have managed to get this far with help from my wife. (add smiley icon if i could get it to work).
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Welcome could do with a bit of light shining .
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Hi Lamplight
Welcome to the board
Please remember that we take things very seriously here, and flippant; jocular; risque remarks are not well received .....!!!! ::)
Hope you have fun.......
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Are you trying to tell me something, Robin?
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Greenman........hello there fellow Essex bloke!
I know a little of Chafford Hundred.........lots of roundabouts I seem to remember.......
And hi there Lamplight.....nice to see this place has over 400 members now.
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HIYA lamplight! Come and be our Lighting Technician at our Party Panto on Friday? ;D
So pleased you've found your way to Dan's fab site..cheers, Lishka
there! far be it from me to confuse anyone ;)
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Lish...isn't it Friday the party panto p*ss up? Maybe we should have a date reconfirm.
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ooooooooooooooooo and welcome Lamplight ;D
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Friday it is!!! Will go forthwith and modify my previous post - which will make nonsense of this - instead of nonsense of that - or something.. ;D Lish
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Greetings from the lowlands Greenman & lamplight :-)
Welcome to the madness that is this board
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............ By the way Hugh I wouldn't dream of even trying to tell you anything
....you're obviously so much more advanced than me........ in skill,words and, of course age :P
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Hiya, just droped in to see how things are on this site. Thanks for all the welcomeing remarks. Robin, did I upset you or are you a moderator. Alishka, I am not quite a lighting tecky I must confess to digging my plot by lamplight many years ago 8). I chose my handle from my winter hobby of making, collecting and restoring old lamps. Cant wait for the good weather to get back up the lottie for all that peace and tranquillity.
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Lamplight the remarks were made with tongue firmly in cheek, we self moderate here, but if you trawl though old postings wedon't appear to do much of that. Hope you join in the fun
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Recieved and understood Robin. Well I do hope to join in all the fun. How about joining me for an online pint of Dark mild to swill down all that nosh that was consumed over the past few days.
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Am a bitter drinker,myself; although am on the Chardonnay tonight, so cheers.
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Did someone say Drink?????/Another Party oh what a bore mines a Lager Pint of please.
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Oh No
Don't be bitter
The best is yet to come ...............
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..........didn't take you long to smell the booze did it bb?.......... keep it quiet or Lish will be here in the press of a mouse
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Welcome to the board JenJuniper, hope you join in the fun
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Hey! A Mild drinker - don't come across too many of them, these days..remember I used to drink in a pub where, if one asked for "a pint and a half of bitter, please" - you'd get given a pint of mild as a matter of course with the poncey half of bitter served up a bit reluctantly afterwards - Lish
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Ya took the words right out of my puter.Before we have a one or three a serious question. i am going Broadband when I come back from Malta at the begining of March( i'm always 4 behind everybody) any recommendations anyone?????????
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yo BB yooze going to MAlta?
give us a jisk ;0 oooh jisk jisk jisk....
lovely place malta.... peeps incredibly down mahn in the sense.... bin there 3 times andeach time brilll always st julians.... and the paceville is so coool.... and the bread.... omigod i am so in a bread love malta thingy..... remember walking into supermarket and buying the best bread ever for about 15c .... btw st julians labour club spag bol.... shy ttte..
give my love to malta sometime bb.... is a cool place...
oz
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Dare I say that I go there every year in February.I know where you mean for the spag. bog. did you try the Pizza from the hole in the wall coming down the hill to Spinolla Bay?????? Oh! myI can't wait for the end of Jan.The people are so nice I have a lot of good Maltese friends.Yes I will give your luv to Malta Oz .
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Yo bb
cn remember fling into malta one crimbo stayed at the ascot in st julians.... malta peeps dead into crim and got down with the locals.... the scotsman is a good bar.. tried the reef bar but landlady kept hitting on me... tell ya awfull she was... hands everywhere...
nice thing about st julians is the nitelife...
check out the sas radison... was going to buy timeshare there.. but hey i aint siging away nowt that cant study at home.....
oohh hollies is dead xcitesville
OZ
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