I don't know about you but I must be lottying in the wrong place. According to the Daily Mail, allotments are now the thing to do for young, gorgeous, career women. Can't say I've seen any around my patch but think wifey is now suspicious lol
I know my veggies are well worth looking after, and flowers are nice but can't say I'd complain. Mind you I'm worth seeing, after all there just can't be a more beaten up worse looking hat anywhere! ! ! ;)
He he, I thought Baz was keen to do the watering last week, now that would explain it! :D
Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw this when at my mums house (dont want to admit to buying this "newspaper)
Never seen anyone who looks like that at my site!!! Must invest in some Laura Ashley ;D ;D
Oh yes, well, I won't be seen on my plot if I am not in my chanel sling back diamonte wellies and my slug proof tiara!
I read this after having roared with lafter at photo. Reading into it was more enlightening tho and they did seem genuine :) Today, while it was persisting it down and A4A was down too I thought I'd use my time wisely. With those Ikea racks that someone gave me I thought I'd re-arrange me wardrobe into scruffy, dead scruffy, garbage, charity shop and allotment. If anyone asks me and my old man to go out these days I break out into a cold sweat wondering what paint splattered tee shirt I will wear ;D I recently had to put my shoes through the washer as we were asked out ;D ;D Lumps of metal fell out and I looked like I was drunk when we walked down the road off to the proms ;D I even sorted out my hat collection to sort out the ones suitable for lottying :)
My lotty neighbours are mostly single women and we were having a right laugh last winter when we were trying to get the damp matches to light. We were all huddled together, dithering with cold and dripping wet but managing to look absolutely gorgeous. Strange that not one Adonis has taken up a vacant plot near us ;D
Crikey, isn't thar sacrilege EJ - I mean NO leathers......! ;)
....and I know what you mean Wardy. My pockets always seem to have seeds, twine, or miscellaneous lottie debris these days!
Well, would hate to offend Icy, but my leather gardening gloves are blackberry encrusted don't you know. ;D
So what you are saying ladies is that beneath that battered hat, old sloppy Joe clothes and muddied wellies there is a vision to behold?
I must remember to take my glasses down the lottie in future!
Derek
Derek Make sure it 's the rose tinted pair ;D
gorgeous - tick
career woman - tick
;) ;D
well, as always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.........
Allotment chic could become the in thing ;D
There are some georgeous femal forms on our allotments, my wife, the various female on adjacent allotments; I will never complain. But don't tell the wife - I'll never hear the end of it!
Crikey, I'll have to get rid of the beat up curent head-wear <sniff,sniff :'( > and go buy a top hat or something just to keep up.
Still, supopsed there'd be plenty of room to hide some courgettes in it..........
Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on July 29, 2005, 00:15:05
Well, would hate to offend Icy, but my leather gardening gloves are blackberry encrusted don't you know. ;D
...spose can let you off then.... ;D
My lotty mate is the zenith of the opposite of allotment chic ;D He wears kasbah pants which are tight at the ankle but half mast which he wears with old bloke type shoes. To go with his ethnic strides he wears a very British checked flannel shirt. He now has got some skateboarders calf length jeans which are massively wide (what trendy kids wear) ;D His head was burning t'other week and he'd forgotten his hat so he made a knotted hanky affair from a filthy piece of fleece :( We have hung it on a nail in his shed so he'll always have it to hand :) We're thinking of making a scarecrow which looks like him ;D
lmao Wardy :D With him around do you need a scarecrow? ;D ven the slugs must be scared to death.........not related to lottie is he - sounds a bit mad ;)
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wardy. I have made a wish that one or two Adonis types arrive on your site. How many can you handle? ;D Just one thing Wardy Lorna(jnr) is manager of a charity shop could you possibly re-arrange the order of merit from your wardrobe? I may have to buy something from her shop but hoping it won't be AFTER garbage catergory ??? ;D Due to a slight (did I say SLIGHT?) increase in my weight I now have just a small section that is marked MAYBE. The rest is marked "You must be kidding"!!!!!!!! Lorna.
Lorna Ta for making me laugh ;D ;D ;D
I have a very voluminous tee shirt, where it came from I can't recall, and the slogan on the front is "thar she blows" ;D Could you suggest an opportune moment for me to wear said tee shirt?
NOT..on this site wardy! ;)
Just asking my hubbie if he thinks there are any gorgeous career women at my site (and hoping he's not cheeky)
No he thinks I fit the description :) so he passes :)
;D ;D
moonbells
Wardy I am not ignoring your post on 30th July. I AM STILL THINKING!!! Lorna.
;D Please no, don't Lorna, you'll only upset me ;D
No gorgeous career women on our allotment :( - just one gorgeous career man. ;D
OK I'm coming out of the gorgeous closet!!!! Yes, it's taken a while but finally I can say the words..."I AM GORGEOUS" ;) :D
But seriously I'm so sick of labels and having to be categorised, they...haven't young women always had an interest in growing things...tragically I think it's just a substitute for the fact that I'm 33 unmarried and desperate to grow something else. Doesn't exactly help when I'm being chatted up and I tell blokes my interests are science, gardening and Elvis, maybe i should find a copy of the article to increase my value :)
M.
Nowt wrong with science gardening and Elvis and there must be loads of blokes out there who think so - pity they're all over 60 ;D Nah, only jokin :)
I've always been interested in growing stuff and wildflowering with my dad when we used to enter a vase into the local fete. I've grown stuff all my life even through my wildest teenage years - only a few herbs, toms, lettuce etc and even when working full time I've grown a bit. Now I'm spending more time at home running my B & B I've taken on a plot of my own. Well as I don't go out to work now I have to wear my power dressing stuff somewhere. Those shoulder pads come in handy when carrying growbags over one's shoulder ;D
Finally...some allotment fashion advice! You see, this is why I'm still at the enquiry stage, I have to find an allotment that matches my shoes ;) And do you think it's easy when your skirt's cut up to "there" ;) Enough to make me want to throw in the towel and go and have a "power nap" ::)
M.
Maddy If you have a skirt "that's cut up to there" you'll have no shortage of help or advice ;D
I wanted to go to plot yesterday as I was passing but noted had sling back suede high heel jobs on so resisted paying homage to me squashes
Do you know you can't find a pair of decent gardening trousers in Next ;D
Just had a look and cannot afford the property prices in South East London ;D
Does it say anything about young fit males?...
Well I match two out of three requirements . . . ;D
Red clanger - Neither can I that's why i commute from kent
Quote from: Val on August 03, 2005, 18:27:47
Does it say anything about young fit males?...
Nope, sorry Val - only a centre spread of said females. Clearly they need more male readers!
Quote from: wardy on July 30, 2005, 22:41:33
Lorna Ta for making me laugh ;D ;D ;D
I have a very voluminous tee shirt, where it came from I can't recall, and the slogan on the front is "thar she blows" ;D Could you suggest an opportune moment for me to wear said tee shirt?
Local curry house?
moonbells (running off very fast)
Just got the Sainsbury's mag for September and they have a piece on allotments and some recipes to use. They feature some allotments in Fulham where they have a 160 names on the waiting list, most of them women. The say that the idea of "growing your own" has become "deeply desirable" again.
One of the new allotment holders is a hat maker and they show her working on her plot with her daughter. She is standing by her spade wearing a very chic wrap around dress and is actually wearing pearls and a bracelet. I too am obviously letting the side down in my tatty t shirt and baggy sweat pants, which are always covered in soil - I am a very messy worker. Made me smile when I saw the article. It looked very trendy. ;D busy_lizzie Â
I like women in a tatty t-shirts and jeans/leggings etc. - ask my OH. She gets dressed up for things and I prefer her in scruffs with no make up etc.
Hmm - I hate to say it, but most of the career women I know that work for these publications dont know their artichokes from their endives ;D
(Not that all career women are like that - before I dig myself into a hole) ;)
Loz
Too late Loz - dig, dig, dig ;D
lol Wardy/Loz.
I have to agree with the scruff order though. Something more romantic about a down to earth, here I am way of dressing - or am I just sad? :-\ Mind you the big advantage so wifey says is not getting scratchy lacy impractical underwear courtesy of me! {GG} MMMmmmmm maybe not so romantic then........
My OH bought me a swoe for our 25th wedding anniversary :) On the rare occasions we go out together he points out shoes and trousers for me "which would be good on the allotment" What a romantic he is ;D