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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Dan 2 on December 06, 2005, 18:13:12
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Hi peeps! Was wondering if anyone (please!) could give me some ideas for a good gardening present. I just don't know what to ask for in that department! Please help! Dan :-)
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Hey Dan! Well, I've been dead chuffed with the River Cottage Diary I so generously got me, I'm so kind!! I constantly use my trugs, love my pruning saw, and you can never have enough DMs.......What kinda price you talkng? 50p or £100 or....??
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£30-50
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Erm, OK, well, go to plot, take pad and pen, then when you're pootling about, there's bound to be some point where you'll say to self..."I could really do with a......" and fill in gap!! ;D ie new boots, fork, covered drinking mug, beer, cooler, hat, shades, warmer socks, hoe, MP3 ( worth its weight in gold!) chiroprctor or holiday...... ;D
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Thanks!
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butane gas stove for shed
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butane gas stove for shed. Veggie growing book by Joy Larckom. Gardening gloves, a Wilkinson Sword Swoe, wellies, socks, fork, spade, Swiss army knife,
dibber, potting equipment, fleece, seeds, bodywarmer, warm trousers, oh I could go on
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Send me the chiropractor's address if you can get one for 30 quid :( Well one session I suppose -just.
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Hire a gardener to do the digging for a few hours :)
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Never enough canes, one of those compost daleks (that would be fun to wrap!), growbags, a 24 can pack of Stella ...
Derekthefox :D
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Box of wine ;D
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I only ever drank wine on my allotment once ... on my 50th birthday. Took a bottle of blackberry down and shared a small glass with the neighbours, so when my wife arrived at 12, I was more than half cut... . Decided wine and gardening are not comfortable companions ... ;D
Derekthefox :D
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Sound like a morning well spent Derek. :)
Baz had a parcel delivered yesterday, it was well wrapped but was very obviously a chillington hoe...imagine a guitar wrapped up without disguising it and you'll get the idea! Baz refused to confirm or deny that it was indeed a chillington hoe, but looks like my christmas pressie is sorted! :D
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I was thinking along those lines Caz and can imagine someone trying to gift wrap a rotovator ;D I've ordered my old man a spade for Christmas - can't wait to have a go at wrapping that! Shall I put it in a box or make no attempt to disguise it ;D
I can remember when I bought him the dog ;D ;D ;D
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PLease tell me you didn't wrap the dog.... ;D
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Yes Caz and Baz, it was a superb morning, indeed a delightful day ... my neighbours cursed me though because the wine stopped them for the day !!!
Derekthefox :D
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I left him an air hole ;D
Do you think the old man will guess what this is?
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::) ::) ::) ;) no, Wardy, cos not.......... erm try .... no that won't work.....scratching head here.. Aha!.....put it in a bath, and wrap the bath!! Then he'll think you've bought him a bath, but you haven't, well you will have done, but that's just a distraction from the spade in the bath......... ;D ;D ;D
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Erm Wardy, do we get three guesses ?
Derekthefox :D
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Lottie I think I understand what you mean ;D I shall cunningly disguise it as sommat else. Er ......... any suggestions
I've hid it behind a pile of stuff in the wardrobe. I bet I forget it's there ???
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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
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You could get a large box and fill it with compost, you'd have a messy carpet though! lol ;)
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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 ;)
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Lottie Brilliant ;D He'd think I'd gone completely bonkers ;D
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Erm...hadn't he guessed...??? ??? ;) post pic with end result please!!! ;D ;)
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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
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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
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Stella is gorgeous. No debate necessary. No argument either ;D
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;D
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Well wardy has spoken ...
Derekthefox (smiling smugly ...)
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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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
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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
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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!!!!!!!!!!
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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
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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
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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 ;)
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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
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Thanks everyone - I am getting my chin up now - that is why I managed that post but it has been a right bugger of a year - the only highs being related to the lottie. Anyway, did finally realise it was all getting too much for me and went to the GPs earlier in the week. He has referred me to the head doctor and upped my dose of anti-depressants so with a bit of look the councilling should get me off the pills asap.
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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.......
Ditto - except with one youngest (for now)...
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I end up smiling and admiring all these wonderful pressies whilst gripping a wooden spoon very tightly behind my back, manic gleam in my eye and OH giving encouraging signs from across the room.... ::)
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Good on yer Clang, the first steps are always the hardest and all that......................... you know we're always here don't yer :)
UC - never liked merc's anyway ;D............. ;D
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But would so love to fill one gardening tools, old compost sacks, dirty wellies and pig poo... ;D ;)
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I wonder how people keep their cars so clean and tidy. Mine is just awful - I'm ashamed of it. My husband wanted me to take him and his mate into town tonight for their Christmas party but there's no way - it's full of wire netting, wellies, plastic bags with all sorts of crap in,plastic bottles, dog blanket, jumpers, rake, spade, hoe, the parcel shelf is on the back seat! He suggested I cleaned it out. I suggested he "drop dead" ;D
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I have to keep mine quite clean unfortunately as it is full of work equipment during the week - it gets emptied out on Thursday night and a blanket put in the back for the dog and horse riding stuff to get deposited in without getting it too mucky ;D Then on a sunday evening I have to clean it out and get reloaded with work stuff again ready for Monday morning :( a bit of a pain really
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Clanger On another thread we were discussing dried tomatoes which got me thinking that such things would make lovely gifts for Christmas. There are loads of ideas for us lotty folk of things to make for Christmas and I only just thought about it. Doh! eg dried tomatoes in oil maybe with home made yogurt cheese balls (looks like Buffalo mozzarella), tarragon vinegar, raspberry vinegar, fruits in syrup, pickled onions and beetroots, picallili, all done up in nice jars with ribbon and home made label, honey, home made biccies - savoury and sweet. Some peeps on here are probably doing this already but it would be something to think about as a way of solving present crises and using produce. Red onion marmalade, oh I'm off now, no stopping me. I know you might not want to give them to your kids but you know what I mean :) Our deli makes up food parcels in wicker hampers all year round but loads at Christmas. Afterwards he sells the second hand slightly damaged wicker hampers. Mind whirring away now ;D
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My car is simply a truck for moving around. It gets loaded with whatever is necessary - guitar and equipment, riding stuff (stinky), horse poo (less stinky), various tools etc. It gets a wash before its annual MOT. I am not ashamed of it, it does what I expect of it ...
Derekthefox :D
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My car is simply a truck for moving around. It gets loaded with whatever is necessary - guitar and equipment, riding stuff (stinky), horse poo (less stinky), various tools etc. It gets a wash before its annual MOT. I am not ashamed of it, it does what I expect of it ...
Derekthefox :D
Well said that man! I was once told that a clean car was a sign of an empty mind, hence I am apparently a genius of Einsteinian proportions! :o
Cheers,
Rob ;)
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Like many of us on here, and I'm sure that can be multiplied by 10's of thousands across the country, times is 'ard in my neck of the woods as well. That brain devourer that sits in the corner vomits out an obscene amount of jealousy/sadness enducing fear into our houses, turning normally cheerful, easygoing people into twitching, self-loathing, quivering wrecks. So, this year EVERY prezzie I give is going to my either hand-made/cooked or bought (with thought) from charity shops. I'm buying myself a half pound of patience and two pen'worth of tolerance ... and everybody else can bugger off. ;D
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I don't think the hospitals could cope if I started giving peeps hand cooked things......And Wards, had to take car to plot to empty!! Couldn't get anything in there!!! Had ladder, compost bags, old trellis, tools, spade, fork, mars bar wrappers ??? most ladybirds, and an old Wisteria I'd cut back...... ;D though having shopped, wish I'd stayed at plot now! Blessed people shopping.....grrrr..... though did have some intersting convos with others in queues...MP3 saved my sanity I think..
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Think you need some rhubarb wine Lottie - steady the nerves ;)
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Cheers me Dear!! ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Thanks Rob, I thought I was all alone ... but I don't feel particularly intelligent ...
Yup, Rhubarb wine again tonight methinks ... seeing as its Friday ...
Well said AikenDrum, stuff the commercialism and do your own thing, rock on ...
Derekthefox :D
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That's why we do poundshop pressies for the family. Even the kids (who I know, Christmas is for the kids, blah blah,blah) get cheep stuff and we try to buy a board game and all play together for a few hours. Telly is banned and we have a great laugh. Last year in the crackers we all got shoe horns. My eldest nephew found that these were great for launching pickled onions from so we had a competition in the garden. Only dad gets a worthwhile - £50 - pressie from his three girls. Got a rather fetching outfit for him this year so he can go to the legion looking spruced up. Shh ...... don't tell him.
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((((Clanger)))) It's not the presents that make christmas. Last year my son spent more time playing with wrapping paper and boxes than anything else. :) I can't remember any of the presents I got as a kid but can remember clearly the family, and the happy times.
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Does anyone have the Vegetable PLot by Sarah Raven or the Soup recipe book (advertised at the top of these pages) The soup book is something to do with Hugh FW?
I ask as I fancy getting these but not if they're rubbish
Anyone? .....