Addictive Allotmenteering

[Mothy]

You're all beyond help!!!   ;D

My names Tim(othy) and I too only read seed catalogues or gardening books, neglect my family and run aroun Sainsburys shouting to my wife "HAVE YOU SEEN THE PRICE OF THE FRENCH BEANS.....?" or baby leeks, swede, spuds, onions etc

I don't need help....just more time!!  ;)

[Mothy]

[RSJK]

Bloody hell Emma you don't half make your self sound sexy any chance of any pictures
                       :o

[ellkebe]

Mothy - such a relief to hear of fellow addicts with similar symptoms! 
My OH is actually too embarrassed to be seen with me in the veg. department at Sainsbury's anymore  :(  I'm sent off to get other stuff while he picks up fruit and veg without the rousing accompaniment of "Call those beans .....  I could get tons of seeds for the price of one of those .... I've thrown away better (fill in blank!!) than that ....." etc. etc.  He swears that it's for my own good as it's only a matter of time before I start preaching to other customers,  volunteering to email them my lottie address, trying to donate veg. to their poor deprived families .... You get the picture!
Personally, I think he's over reacting  ;D

[reedos]

My name's Andy, I've been addicted to allotmenting for 3 years now, I currently have 2 plots, three greenhouses, a shed and ninety eight packets of assorted seeds with more coming. All my jeans are stained or ripped, my shoes all caked in mud/manure and I struggle to find any going out clothes. When not allotmenteering I talk about it to the bloke I sit next to at work, at lunchtimes we walk up to his site just to have a look. My wife, kids and friends just shake their collective heads in despair. But I've not got the problem - they have  ;D

All our site needs is a bit totty and life would be complete - UC, Wardy, Heldi, EJ to name but a few fancy moving to Gateshead ? ;)

[redimp]

I've turned into a pusher - all my mates have had a try and now they want one too.


He he he he he he he he (rubs hands together a le Fagin)

[Lily]

I managed to get my fix today,  ;) I went down to the lottie to take some shredded paper to put on the compost bin. I was only there for a few minutes, honest. ;D  ;D  ;D

Oh, what the heck, I'm addicted to my allotment.  There I've said it............  such a weight off my shoulders, I feel so much better.  Thanks guys for helping me to admit to myself that I have a problem.  I just hope no-one develops a cure.  ;D  ;D

Lily

[Jimbo]

I'm Jimmy, and have an allotment.  My Other Half thinks that I am crazy, and cannot understand the attraction.  She may possibly be suing for divorce on the grounds of desertion soon, and I have to get my fix on A4A, on the days I cannot get to my Lottie.

I tell her that I am selling arms on e-bay, buying viagra or even more dodgy activities, to hide the shame of my sudden addition to A4A.

:)

[Doris_Pinks]

My name is Doris and I have an addiction...................

I too used to wonder what to wear to work, how high my heels were etc. Now I am mostly seen covered in dirt or worse, and look rather like that character Pigpen from the  peanuts cartoon strip.....

My car looks like a shed and my daughters moan and groan and make excuses for me when Ihave to deliver their friends home, they often exclaim the car smells like chicken poo, now what's wrong with that I ask you???

My OH just raises his eyes to the skies when I chatter on about the lottie and the folks on site, and has been onsite twice this year!

My house now has become a slum cos I spend too much time on the plot or here and not enough time doing housework, luckily the rest of the family don't seem to have noticed yet!

I don't need help but my family probably do! ;D

[myrtle]

Oh Yes! (where's me nodding head emoticon?) I identify with all that has gone before.

My name's Myrtle and I'm an allotment addict but I don't WANT to be cured!!  ;D

[Mrs Ava]

Richard, is that with our without the mud??  ;)

Well Wardy, I had no room in my wardrobe for all those chunky sweaters, wooly socks and tough trousers...something had to give, and occassionally I do a spot of dusting you know.  ;D ;D ;D

And Myrtle, I'm with you 100%!  Not even if they paid me!!

[reedos]

Wardy all you need do now is start whispering sweet nothings about the benefits of the no dig method and I'm yours :-*

[reedos]

Did I claim to be anything else  ;D It woz the wellies that did it

[busy_lizzie]

Just seen this, and I have to disagree with everyone,  ;D ;D.  I think people are really strange and abnormal if they don't garden.  How could people not want to be out in the fresh air getting loads of exercise and planting seeds and producing great flowers and veggie, - you would have to be really weird not to, I think.   :-[ Alright, I am in denial, My name is busy_lizzie and I am an addict.  ;D 

[Derekthefox]

Honesty is good Busy Lizzie, and I feel the same !

Derekthefox :D

[RSJK]

I am with you Busy Lizzie cannot think of anything more rewarding then gardening.

[redimp]

Join the lcub Lizzie - I'll see you outside the school gates - see if we can get any of those children hooked.  ;D

[Meg]

Well we are just a lucky lot of people aren't we. I can't wait to get going again. My daughter's just love the tramp look when I walk down to lottie. I think some of the fella's there do to I have nearly pulled some of those old un's. Don't know why.Bless.

[redimp]

Nothing I like better than a woman in scruffs - never been one for the pampered look.  Always been a bit of a hippy.

[Mothy]

Wardy...you're doomed  ;D

We're all doomed.....doomed to spend our time in the fresh air, getting exercise and eating lovely, healthy food!!

As for style on the lottie? Nah, quite at home in me scruffs Ta!

[Derekthefox]

Well if that is my sentence, then I will just say thank you. As for fashion, I definitely favour the tramp look ...

Derekthefox :D