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Allotment Stuff => Swap Shop => Topic started by: littlegem on May 09, 2005, 22:04:15
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would like to swap licksey, my greyhound x labrador (see left) for a short legged lazy, uncrazy dog who knows the difference between grass and veg/flower beds.
Also dog must be able to make me breakfast in bed, buy me flowers and rub my shoulders after a hard day on the veg plot. (or am i thinking of swapping somebody else?!!?!?!!)
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I've got a couple of teenagers???.....................but, they wouldn't be able to do the breakfast in bed bit, cos they don't get outta bed till 11am on the weekends. ;D ;D ;D ;D Got an OH...........but the last 3 things would never happen! Got these 2 guinea pigs...................................... ;D
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Could swap him for a rather large GSD who likes plastic flower pots....unfortunately has now started to take them before I have removed the plant!!
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Let us all know if you get one - I've been looking for exactly the same thing :). in return can swap 2 GSDs and a teenager - what a deal !!!!!!!
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I can offer you my neighbour's cats. Feed them vegetarian and you'll have an endless supply of manure. They even dig it into the borders, seed beds, etc for you!
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to make my offer even more attractive, i can throw in my BF's 16 year old boozy daughter. hours of fun cleaning up after her, doing her washing, waiting up for her, all this and you dont have to chastise her cos you wouldnt be allowed!!!
So, unruly dog and unruly step daughter anyone? how can you resist. offer is open for ever!!!!
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If you can manage those two, how about taking on my 14 year old step son?
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i know what, give me what you got!!!!
I'll give you the dog, cat, 2 cavvies, 15 fish, live-in 16 year old step daughter, occassional 11 year & 4 year step sons and 7 year old step daughter, 2 jobs, 3 bed semi to clean and 30m x 15m garden with veggies etc in it. anything will do!!!!!!!
In fact have me, i'm 31, kind natured, a lot of fun, easy going and hard working. All i ask in return is a bottle or two of dry white wine a night. pref chardonnay
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No point in me swapping with you then Littlegem, your life sounds exactly like mine, especially the last sentance! ;D ;D (minus the steps, but teenagers of my own!) So I am afraid I shall have to retract my more than generous offer! ;D ;D ;D
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LG
How about we get a manaquin, stand it by the kitchen sink + you can stay at mine (they'd prob not notice) with a dog that like lettuce, slugs, cuts the grass (well some of it), digs out the moss + an OH who probably makes as much mess as the unruly 16 year old, but does make tea?
You might have to make do with homemade wine - and planting, but you could have your own hammock?
D ;)
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show me the hammock!!!! ;D ;D ;D I'm there!!!!!
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i prescribe a strike for fairer deal-and if that dont work a full blown,screaming heebygeeby tantrum with LOTS of swearing..
should work..... ;D ;D
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Well I was up for the swap until the teenangel was thrown in too! :o
Littlegem you could have had my docile, funny, gentle, non-flower devouring cat Alice in exchange for the mad dog.
Awww I guess I'll have to keep her. :-*
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I must admit kitty, a tantrum every now and again, gets them thinking, then apologising, then being nice. until the novelty wears off!!!?!!?!?!?
I think you have to wear THEM down, bit by bit if you want to get a satisfactory result. I've learnt that cos they depend on me so much, when i ever get really hacked off and feel taken for granted, I just do nothing, and I mean absolutly NOTHING, then it sinks in to them just how much i actually do, when they have to do it themselves, bit by bit, the weight gets taken off of me. cruel I know, but a few more years of this strategy, and i'll be living like a queen. I hope!! ;)
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Little Gem HOW COULD YOU poor Licksey. If I was near( him/her?) I would cover his little ears so that he couldn't hear. When I have a moan about Elsa my son-in-law does that to her and says !Don't listen to her"... Son-in-law and daughter often pop in during day to have a cuppa and use my loo (they have a window cleaning round which they started up when Paul was made redundant.... better than going on the dole) Anyhow when Paul walks through front door he shouts out "Hello Baby" needless to say he is not speaking to me. Anyhow as usual I digress. Swapsy????? sorry, I am now on my own, teenagers long gone,not sure Elsa would be a good swap for Licksey, she wakes you up nightly (about 3am) to go in the garden. Barks all the time at visitors. BUT she is lovely.. I suppose you could always come here for a few days respite and leave THAT LOT to cope on their own!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ???
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I suppose you could always come here for a few days respite and leave THAT LOT to cope on their own!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ???
Wow is that offer of respite open to anyone?
My youngest son is in the middle of yr6 sats and oldest is doing AS'ssoon and well stressed. OH working all hours, one mad cat, one hypochondriac cat (couldn't put paw down, limping badly so took him to vet Sunday morning, he walked normally for the vet and limped as soon as he got home) middle son needs taking to football tournaments next 4 weekends then uni visits for oldest, I could do with some respite!
Careful we might all descend on you!!
I shall go in the garden instead then I will feel as if I have had a break - it always feels better when I've done some gardening!
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Poor Lorna is going to have a house full at this rate :o
Well if everyone else is coming, can i come too? ;D
Got no reasons.....just because... ;D
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Well folk I do love company and as I am the eighth one of nine kids I am use to sleeping head to toe. I only have a small two bedroom bungalow which is now a ONE bedroom bungalow. When husband was here I would often sleep in spare bedroom as his legs were somtimes so painful even me just turning in the bed was uncomfortable for him. After losing him I decided to turn spare bedroom in to dining room as we only have smallish kitchen and was difficult when we had company.HOWEVER I do have KING size bed.... 4at the top and 4 at the bottom?? :o ::) Grandson has just brought my car back to me (he is a mechanic) and it has passed it's test except for couple of small advises which he will do for me. What would we do without our families. I am off to do some gardening now. byeeeeeee
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Lorna I could bring my tent, that sleeps 4! ;D
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Before I know where I am we will have enough for a party, but a tent in the Fens? It don't arf blow round these parts. :'(... not like sunny Sussex.
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this is soo funny, When im taken for granted with my 4 kids, lazy git of a hubby, dog,cat, rabbits, chickens etc, I just take a bottle or two of dry white wine and 20 fags up to my greenhouse and potter about with my plants, i get those massive candles to keep it light, nice and warm, quiet and i can watch the sun go down hear the birds sing their last tunes of the day, Blissfully quiet, my sanctuary, and think to myself "sod the lot of em" !!
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lol!
i wonder how many of us 'dissapear' to the shed or the greenhouseor just'down the garrrrrden' to escape the oh?
it makes me larf it do! ;D
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I do for a while, but I start to feel guilty and slink back to the house..... :-\ But, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, from 8.50 until noon, you will find me, with my giant flask of coffee, selfishly playing on my allotment, all alone, in the perfect quiet of the Essex country (apart from the woodpecker! :-X) And in September, number one son starts school full time, so I may start to take root on the plot!