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Title: : ages of Gardeners on here ?
Post by: GRACELAND on March 30, 2009, 17:29:25
 :D
How old are we on here    ;D

ages of Gardeners on here ?
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Post by: pippy on March 30, 2009, 17:39:03
Not sure if you intended to overlap the 35-45 and 40-60 ??  Some of us would fall into either or both!! :)
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Post by: caroline7758 on March 30, 2009, 17:44:14
This should be interesting! ;D
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Post by: spudsmummy on March 30, 2009, 17:58:55
this should be good :D are people going to put there ages as well or just vote  ;)

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Post by: taurus on March 30, 2009, 18:12:09
 ;D ;D Bus pass next year, cheaper to get to work.  Can't afford to retire  ::) ::)
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Post by: honeybee on March 30, 2009, 18:48:23
48 today  ;D
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Post by: Anne Robertson on March 30, 2009, 18:51:18
Happy Birthday Hunnybee, hope you have had a festive day.
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Post by: Borlotti on March 30, 2009, 18:52:06
Happy birthday to you, you are only a baby.  Lucky you.
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Post by: honeybee on March 30, 2009, 18:58:30
lol, thanks you two, In my mind I do feel like a baby Borlotti but the reality of my age today makes me wonder where time has gone  :o
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Post by: reddyreddy on March 30, 2009, 19:05:02
Woo hoo, I feel like a whipper snapper!! And THAT is why I am always seeking advice!!  ;D
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Post by: SPUDLY on March 30, 2009, 20:17:58
I hit the big 40 in january :o. My 21st only feels like yesterday
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Post by: jonny211 on March 30, 2009, 20:23:38
I'm 36.. just a boy according to my allotment neighbour (88)
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Post by: carlseawolf on March 30, 2009, 20:33:22
41 this year
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Post by: spudsmummy on March 30, 2009, 20:34:46
im 25 by the way
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Post by: Flighty on March 30, 2009, 20:37:32
A young at heart 61!

Happy birthday Honeybee!
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Post by: cornykev on March 30, 2009, 20:44:14
Happy birthday Honeybee it must be an old piccie you bearly look in your forty's  ;)  as for the vote I fall in two categories so what do I do.  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: lushy86 on March 30, 2009, 21:00:49
Happy Birthday Honeybee  ;D ;D

I'm 42 - By the time I've finished all the digging I need to do I'll probably look 92!
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Post by: honeybee on March 30, 2009, 21:47:02
Thanks again guys, and I love you Cornykev  ;D :-*... and no my pic is not an old one lol  ;D

They were guessing my age at work the other day, the best 33 .... the worst 43, it made an old bird happy   ;D
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Post by: saddad on March 30, 2009, 21:49:02
I'm 48 this time too, but still got a few months to go...  ;D
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Post by: DaveR on March 30, 2009, 21:52:27
I'm 34 and a half - that sounds better than being nearly 35!  ;D
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Post by: asbean on March 30, 2009, 21:55:34
Old enough to know better, but not too old to misbehave from time to time  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Post by: Weed-Digga on March 30, 2009, 21:57:37
42 in May, just pulled out my 5th grey hair!!

Weed-Digga
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Post by: manicscousers on March 30, 2009, 22:01:51
should be 57 this year but I'm going backwards now so 55  ;D ;D
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Post by: beckydore on March 30, 2009, 22:05:49
35 ... so I too fall into two agegroups on here. Its a real shock to be moving from the 25-34 to the 35-49 groups on some surveys.
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Post by: lottie lou on March 30, 2009, 22:07:00
Happy birthday honeybee, you are just a babby
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Post by: Froglegs on March 30, 2009, 22:16:06
50 soon,still feel like a 20 year old... but with my back ...best not. :P ;D
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Post by: Pesky Wabbit on March 31, 2009, 04:43:13
But, there's no option for TGG to click (0-14)  ;)
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Post by: kt. on March 31, 2009, 07:47:27
I am 36 years young 8) 8)  Looking good,  feeling fit.  Sorry ladies I am already taken. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: lorna on March 31, 2009, 15:15:10
Sorry I missed your Birthday Honeybee, hope it was a good day for you.

Yahoo! 75 in September, get a free TV licence 8)
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Post by: GRACELAND on March 31, 2009, 15:20:47
 ;D  going well


i,m        45 by the way   :D
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Post by: wetandcold on March 31, 2009, 15:27:47
33 years old but have been tending to my garden for the last 6 years.

My neighbors (who dislike any form of gardening unless it involves mono-blocking, shooting at the bluetits with a pellet-gun and using a chainsaw to cut down the tiniest shoot that dares to lean over their fence...) told me recently during a heated discussion that they think I am a posh poof (their words, not mine) because I am English and I like to spend my time in the garden. In their view, apparently, a young lad like me would be better either in the pub or watching football, or both ideally. That just makes me garden even more vigorously - especially when it comes to choosing lovely tall plants to grow on my side of the fence...
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Post by: Fork on March 31, 2009, 15:43:06
Fork is 52  :o
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Post by: Old bird on March 31, 2009, 15:45:35
Old Bird is 59!!!  Mentally still 21!

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Post by: shirlton on March 31, 2009, 15:46:31
Shirl is 63 in June and ower Tone is 80 next month.
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Post by: stuffed on March 31, 2009, 15:51:58
29....I think I will stick :P
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Post by: samela on March 31, 2009, 15:59:50
The big 30! and I don't like it one bit  >:(
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Post by: simmo116 on March 31, 2009, 17:54:22
28 me but i feel 50....lol
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Post by: carrot-cruncher on March 31, 2009, 18:03:01
38 (physically)

But I prefer to follow the advert that says "act your shoe size, not your age".....therefore I am 6 and loving it. ;D

CC
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Post by: Busy Bee on March 31, 2009, 18:12:18
45 and feeling it today after more digging.  :) :)
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Post by: betula on March 31, 2009, 18:18:22
21 :P ;D
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Post by: littlebabybird on March 31, 2009, 18:39:00
42, cant quite work out how that happened :(

lbb
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Post by: cornykev on March 31, 2009, 18:46:34
Tone you old cradle snatcher you.  ;D ;D ;D  :-*
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Post by: lightyears on March 31, 2009, 19:26:28
25
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Post by: petengade on March 31, 2009, 19:26:52
I Am 77 but the saying is ''you are as old as the woman you feel'' as my wife is 39 I am 39 also :D
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Post by: flossy on March 31, 2009, 19:38:42


   Gotta confess,  67 not so long ago  ---   trouble is , still think I can do things

   of someone less than that  --  nothing to do with ego,  just the mind being willing, etc

   It's OK though, happy in my socks !      ;)

    floss xxx 


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Post by: tim on March 31, 2009, 19:52:01
Are not most of our birthdays in the Calendar?
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Post by: cleo on March 31, 2009, 20:00:51
I`m 55-and my back tells me-but I can flirt-oh wrong board ;D
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Post by: Twoflower on March 31, 2009, 20:18:37
36, my birthday is next month. Can't work out how the calender works?
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Post by: luap on March 31, 2009, 20:53:57
42 and deffo feel it today ::)
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Post by: tonybloke on March 31, 2009, 21:04:38
hit the big Five - O last year!! ;)
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Post by: mike77 on March 31, 2009, 21:21:25
31 here but always remember that growing old is mandatory whereas growing up is optional ;D
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Post by: caroline7758 on April 01, 2009, 19:42:35
hit the big Five - O last year!! ;)

Same here!
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Post by: Amazin on April 03, 2009, 01:13:11
Too old for Ibiza, too young for Saga.

My sister's just become a grandmother which makes me officially Great.

No change there then.

 ;D
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Post by: THE MASTER on April 03, 2009, 02:52:52
so who saw "deal or no deal" last night
were Joe at a young spritley 97 years showed wots it like to be happy at 97. he has been through two world wars
he took the banker for £20,000
joe dindnt wont all the money he was trying to get as mutch as he could for the chelsea pention fund

WOT A TOP GEAZZER  ;D ;D
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Post by: daileg on April 03, 2009, 08:04:14
well im 38 this november the 16 th if anyone wants to send me a card as there is nothing better than one arriving on your doorstep unexpectedly hint hint

no sorry feeling good expect many years of digging yet touch wood where is my spade oh yes in the shed
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Post by: Twoflower on April 03, 2009, 08:08:32
31 here but always remember that growing old is mandatory whereas growing up is optional ;D


Must remember that quote ;D
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Post by: lewic on April 03, 2009, 09:21:01
43 in a couple of weeks. Not too old for Ibiza though  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: saddad on April 03, 2009, 09:22:57
I think I was born too old for Ibiza....  :-X
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Post by: Mowhay on April 03, 2009, 11:47:41
I'm 54 but my gorgeous litlle helper ( granddaughter ) is 3 and a half so she doesn't fit in the poll?
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Post by: melann on April 03, 2009, 12:54:48
43 but im able to take anything on upto the age of 50  ;D
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Post by: Patrick King on April 10, 2009, 18:20:42
im 20, got my plot when i was 19
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Post by: tim on April 10, 2009, 20:42:34
So Patrick at 19/20 must be the youngest?

And Amazin - at 110 by now - must be the oldest?
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Post by: asbean on April 10, 2009, 21:18:11
angel shades is 117  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Eristic on April 10, 2009, 21:23:44
Tim you're asking for a dancin carrot where you don't want a dancin carrot.
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Post by: Justy on April 10, 2009, 21:30:28
38 for me (although feel 22!)   ;D
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Post by: Uncle Joshua on April 10, 2009, 22:09:29
I'm 40...

Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better? I have been growing veg since I was 7 so 33 years.
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Post by: tim on April 12, 2009, 09:53:02
Not sure about Carrots, but I've been assisting growing since I was 10, in Father's Small Holding near Evesham & Market Garden in Jersey.

Cheap labour!!
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Post by: Levi on April 12, 2009, 10:56:16
I think I was born too old for Ibiza....  :-X
:)
43 but im able to take anything on upto the age of 50  ;D
Are you talking about yourself or women aged up to 50?!  :)
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Post by: Pink Fingers on April 12, 2009, 12:28:50
Phew, have just sneaked in on the 40-60 group.  Trying not to panic, but in a months time and I will have moved from a possible 40 on to anything up to 100, ouch.   :o

Worst thing about approaching 60 is trying to get a flattering photo for the bus pass
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Post by: Larkshall on April 13, 2009, 08:17:07
80 last month, only two older (apart from the silly ones, over 100). Still cycling with our pensioner group, about 30 - 40 miles on a Tuesday, to pub lunch and back. When it's further I take the car to the Park & Ride then cycle. I run the pensioner group so I can arrange the lunch venue's.

www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk (http://www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk)
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Post by: chriscross1966 on April 13, 2009, 22:37:21
80 last month, only two older (apart from the silly ones, over 100). Still cycling with our pensioner group, about 30 - 40 miles on a Tuesday, to pub lunch and back. When it's further I take the car to the Park & Ride then cycle. I run the pensioner group so I can arrange the lunch venue's.

www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk (http://www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk)

That's definitely cheating.... I like it!
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Post by: THE MASTER on April 14, 2009, 02:54:29
I'm 40...

Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better? I have been growing veg since I was 7 so 33 years.
a poll on how old do you realy feal , or how old is your mind, how old is your body, i think that would be interesting

im 47 in a week,s time 23 april ST georges day (hint hint)
but i have the mind of a 18
the body of a 30
aches and pains of a 60

but im happy that's wot matters
 8)

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Post by: RosieMcPosie on April 17, 2009, 14:43:20
i'm 22 in a few weeks and petrified of getting old!! aah
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Post by: GRACELAND on April 17, 2009, 14:47:10
i'm 22 in a few weeks and petrified of getting old!! aah


Get a way u wiper snapper  ;D
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Post by: Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!) on April 17, 2009, 15:29:31
35!
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Post by: tim on April 17, 2009, 15:56:15
Lucky old you, Larkshall - I'm not allowed to cycle - or fly for that matter - in case they lose my pension!!
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Post by: Hyacinth on April 17, 2009, 20:42:13
I'm 40...

Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better?

Yes, I think it would......how long and WHY? There's so much growing (geddit? ::)) awareness today & it would be interesting to see how this has permeated the general consciousness...

For me....home-grown , with all possible imperfections from nibbly insects, etc. but free of pesticides & fresh from the garden is best!

So.....how long for me?....well, (cos I'm a VERY Old Lady!).....since 1972 or thereabouts when I was gifted my first runner-bean plants when I came back to live in the UK and had great success......this was the year, also , when I was gifted my first ever rhubarb crown - which I planted upside down (see 'rhubarb' thread in Edibles & 'Dad's remark that it takes a lot to flummox rhubarb!!!!) and, bless it, it survived for 2 years before I was told to re-plant it right way up!!!


My point to all this...and previous threads about age/why. etc.....is to establish the sign of the times? For me, bluntly, unless one was a 'Gentleman Gardener' (Tim would have come under this catagory cos of his familial Market Gardners link..) in my family, back then in the mists of time, if one grew ones own veggies, be it on a 'lotment or in one's garden, one was a loser! Someone who, patently, couldn't afford to support one's family except through scratching in the soil?

And so, now, I reckon I'm a family Ground Breaker 8)..I broke that mold back then....I didn't have to do it - but did it for FUN? (Don't think that 'fun' apart from growing roses/n/stuff, entered into the family psyche then.....

So.....back to the top (finally!!) WHEN did you start growing your own - and WHY? would interest me more....
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Post by: Moonbeam65 on April 17, 2009, 20:46:36
Only a young 63.
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Post by: Emagggie on April 17, 2009, 21:05:01
Fifty ten ;D ;D
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Post by: thifasmom on April 18, 2009, 01:34:39
I'm 40...

Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better?

Yes, I think it would......how long and WHY? There's so much growing (geddit? ::)) awareness today & it would be interesting to see how this has permeated the general consciousness...

For me....home-grown , with all possible imperfections from nibbly insects, etc. but free of pesticides & fresh from the garden is best!

So.....how long for me?....well, (cos I'm a VERY Old Lady!).....since 1972 or thereabouts when I was gifted my first runner-bean plants when I came back to live in the UK and had great success......this was the year, also , when I was gifted my first ever rhubarb crown - which I planted upside down (see 'rhubarb' thread in Edibles & 'Dad's remark that it takes a lot to flummox rhubarb!!!!) and, bless it, it survived for 2 years before I was told to re-plant it right way up!!!


My point to all this...and previous threads about age/why. etc.....is to establish the sign of the times? For me, bluntly, unless one was a 'Gentleman Gardener' (Tim would have come under this catagory cos of his familial Market Gardners link..) in my family, back then in the mists of time, if one grew ones own veggies, be it on a 'lotment or in one's garden, one was a loser! Someone who, patently, couldn't afford to support one's family except through scratching in the soil?

And so, now, I reckon I'm a family Ground Breaker 8)..I broke that mold back then....I didn't have to do it - but did it for FUN? (Don't think that 'fun' apart from growing roses/n/stuff, entered into the family psyche then.....

So.....back to the top (finally!!) WHEN did you start growing your own - and WHY? would interest me more....

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Post by: powerspade on April 18, 2009, 07:25:49
Im 65yrs in body 21yrs in mind and been growing vegetables since I was 11 yrs old
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Post by: Multiveg on April 19, 2009, 13:38:18
Hehe - not gone up an "age-band"
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Post by: Bubbly Berry on April 19, 2009, 19:56:35
 :) Dirty Thirty
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