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Hi Sarah

Don't know if you know it these days, but they have redeveloped all the Woolwich Arsenal site near the river into (posh & pricey) flats, greenwich heritage centre,Firepower museum, etc., and then beside that is where I live in whats known as 'Gallions Reach Urban Village' - so named because they can say 'Gallions Reach, Greenwich' and charge double for everything instead of 'between Woolwich and Thamesmead'!!

Having said that, its really nice here - area has won awards from RSPB for the wetlands development, from Royal institute of Chartered surveyors, and various other environmental bods.

I'm lucky enough to live opposite the canal, so see the swans strutting their stuff this morning - getting frisky with each other now spring is just round the corner, and getting ratty with the geese!

I think they're going to develop the old Hospital site now (I daresay into more flats...). I had the misfortune to be an 'inmate' of the new hospital (QE hospital) 2 years ago. It's  really nice there, except it was midsummer, and while the old one had air conditioning the new one doesn't - so apart from being ill with whatever it was we were in for, they were trying to stop us all from keeling over with the heat as well! So much for improvements.

My plot is just up the road towards Abbey Wood. It's going to be an uphill task!

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[Sarah-b]

Hi Dawn - nope - all that is new to me. Maybe it's time to visit the old place to take a look.
Good luck with the lotty anyway!
sarah.

[loz]

Hi Multi

I'm about 15 mins from Baytree (well worth a visit) just outside of Holbeach Drove

I've lived here about 4 years now, and think it is a much understated part of the country

Loz

[tim]

Sorry to butt in, but Wife defended the Arsenal with her AA Battery. Glad it's still there.

And, with that, a more truthful photo?? And, for good measure, since others include their sprogs, here's the last but one! One hopes!!

[simon404]

I'm thinking you all out there only exist for me in my imagination and vice versa but what the hell...My life (what I can remember!): Born 1957, year of the rooster, cancerian. 
Trained as a gardener for Derby city council parks department (7 years), then went to Derbyshire county council as a chargehand (5 years), packed it in when everything became too mechanised. Did a degree in the arts in healing and learning. Went self-employed as a jobbing gardener, have never looked back.
Did the "deep green" thing: lived in a caravan on a farm for 12 years, chopping wood and fetching water. Loved going to festivals: Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Rainbow camps. Threat of eviction led to moving to a dreadful  housing association flat for a year then took the plunge and bought this little terraced house 6 years ago. Allotment through the hedge at the bottom of the garden. 
My gardening mentors: the old blokes on the council who taught me everything I know, especially Alec Cave, UK champion sweet pea grower. Two kids, both grown up now.

[simon404]

Hi Wardy, I've been trying to write a reply but the 'puter keeps crashing and losing it. Will try again in a bit. Cheers for now.

[simon404]

Hi again, bedding designs: at this time of year there would be polyanthus with tulips coming through, wallflowers and forget-me-nots, universal pansies. Later for summer bedding we’d have geraniums, begonias etc edged with  maybe alyssum, with a focus plant taller than the rest, like a standard fushia in the middle and four spot plants between the middle and the corners. The head gardener used to do the designs, we just got to plant them out but it was enjoyable work. We used to grow them all ourselves then too, in Markeaton Park glasshouses, I don’t know if you know it? I’ve got some old photos somewhere, if I can find them I’ll post them in the gallery.

[kitty]

ooooo-its very quiet in here..i think you've all gone...prolly gardening.
o well...i'll talk to meself then.
i'm a 47 year old female artist..i live in lincolnshire with me yusband.our lads grown up(sort of,or despite us)hes 26...erm...i like gardening(obviously)......we've had  a shop for 11 years  where we make all our own arty type stuff-mikes a cartoonist-o,and we've got 8 cats.
EIGHT?
yes,eight-thats normal isn't it?
and our house does not smell of wee! >:(
we've just moved out into the sticks where our -ahem!'garden' is a small(very small)rough bit of field....so,this week i will be mostly 'aving bachache!
thats me.
o,and i look like cindy crawford.
and i'm a compulsive liar.

[kitty]

awww!and i thought there'd be some tuna if i turned up! ;)

yes-i saw someone from the south of the county-trouble is,lincolnshire is EEEEENormous-like chile-a very long stretch of country!anyway-nice to see you-glad i wasn't just racketing about on me own here! :D
sorry to hear about your backache......lots of hot baths for you i think!

[Multiveg]

Which end of lincs are you kitty? My folks live near Spalding.

[tim]

And Kitty - what sort of painting or whatever??

Our elder daughter, of similar age, paints & teaches.

[kitty]

hello multiveg!
t'other end-nearlincoln.....well..six miles outsider it..but our shop is right in the middle of lincoln.....spalding end is nice but a leetle too flat for my liking!plent of self sufficient people in the fen areas tho!

hello tim!weeeeeeell..if you click on my sig at the bottom of my post it will take you to an online gallery that i belong to-an if you click on the web sign there it will go onto my own site-i like to bore people completely and thoroughly so i have TWO websites!
i mostly paint wildlife and pussycats-not to everyones taste so i dont expect a round of applause,honest!but its made us(mikes a cartoonist)a good living for the past 25-odd years!..it helps  to sell your work when you have your own gallery/shop,but i wouldn't want to start again in this economic climate-we've had the shop 11 years now.

we've moved aound lincolnshire a bit tried the city for a while-too many students  i'm afraid..so now we are back in the stick s and (hopefully)back to growing a bit of veg.....we did it before and i'm older and wiser(lol!)now!!

o,and i forgot to add in my profile that i am a compulsive reader.....biographies,detective fiction,gardening stuff...you name it i'll read it.
well...almost.

[kitty]

i am really REALLY laughing here!
when i wrote in the above posts re;what subjects i painted i wrote the abbreviation for cats.....that kids say- begins with 'p' ends with 'ussy'...and it got changed to girlthingycats........hahahahahah!
let me assure you there are no 'girl thingys' in my paintings!

[Mrs Ava]

Just been looking at your gallery Lea and wow!  Great pics.  now I am not into cats in any way, but I can appreciate great pics, and these are great!  LURVE the badgers and 'In the Garden' and 'The gardeners' immensly.  Such clever folk frequent these boards!

[Gardengirl]

I would like to echo Emma's comments - amazing talent :)

[kitty]

aw! thats very kind of both of you! :-*
its really just practice y'know.......

[North Country Boy]

Thought id pitch in as well but not with a full profile more why im doing the whole allotment thing. Ive spent the best part of my life working really hard to get on and better myself. Ive stayed in the same industry for 17 years and am a middle manager in a very large leisure company. I really didnt know any other way than the supermarket until i watched the very first episode of 'A cook on the wild side' i was totally hooked, there was another way, however this other way stayed pretty dormant until the river cottage series came out and i could not contain my urges anymore, i wanted to know all about food, where it comes from and how it was produced, for me and my 3 small (at the time) girls. So i started buying local produced veg grew a few veg in the back garden and stated to become abit more concious about where my food came from. By this time i started to become horrified at the rubbish that was being put into food and the damage that could be done to my children. Also at this time i was worried that my children were being brought up in an uncaring and unknowledgable world where the majority of children think vegetables come from a tin. Thankfully ive now managed to educate my kids to a certain extent that they know where their food is coming from. They know the difference between good food and bad. With a new lottie under my belt and 2 out of the 3 kids excited about it im hoping for a bumper bounty this year and the start of fresh organic food for my children, and myself of course.

PS. im 37, like the odd drink, love the outdoors, i'll go like a train if you stoke my boiler that kind of thing.

[tim]

That's what I like to hear!!


If your second entry embarrasses you, try 'delete' - though, since you originated the first one, & this was almost certainly not a 'reply', it may not work.

[Heldi]

Hello everybody. I think it's only polite that I should introduce myself.

Helen, born in 1967 in Kingston upon Thames. Adopted and brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. Now if someone offers a couch I'll tell you more about that,but for instance I've only just sent for my birth certificate to find out who is responsible for giving me life.

Scorpio. Born on Halloween.

Done lots of stuff. Worked for a parks dept when I left school.. Washed dishes on Ios,cleaned rooms in Athens. I have seen the Whirling Dervish in Turkey. Lived in Germany for 3 years. Was married to RAF via ex husband. RAF Wildenwrath and RAF Bruggen. (Wilders was just a residence when I was there..96 - 99).
Two children,Boy,born in Viersen Dulken Germany. Daughter 2years Alnwick Northumberland.   Now with partner who I always will refer to as His Majesty or His Madge. Love him to bits. He asked me to marry him during an episode of Gardener's World.

Allotment in waiting. I have been told I am next on the list and I was initially offered a plot with a supposed rat prob,but now I've been told there is another coming up. Have to wait 'til beginning of April.

[tim]

Hope that's a happy ending.