I can't understand it, I'm a stay at home in the warm kinda girl but this morning I was in a real grumpy mood because it was too wet to go to lottie.
I was really itching to get out there and pull some weeds.
What's happening to me? Is there something I can take for it or am I doomed?
;)
Afraid you are doomed. I suffer with agoraphobia and instread of wanting to stay in my house, I now itc to get to my allotment. :)
Quote from: Vez1 on October 24, 2005, 22:55:09
Afraid you are doomed. I suffer with agoraphobia and instread of wanting to stay in my house, I now itc to get to my allotment. :)
I can understand that, I suffer from depression and the allotment is fantastic therapy.
I was working all weekend from 7.30am til 7pm with a 2 hour break in between. Guess where i was? ::) woke up thismorning looked outside and thought, oh no i can't go to the lotty.. oh yes we're doomed ; ;D
I didn't suffer from depression till I got my allotment. ;D
lol
yep, it's a sad time of the year because i can only potter on the weekends now (weather permitting) - the evenings are dark and i am not home early enough.....
... my lottie has become absorbing and the best therapy ever too. Through the dark winter nights I dream of polytunnels, self-erecting sheds, potting systems, and layering the compost heap; plot leaf-collecting sorties, lust after esoteric garden tools, and fight my way to the front door through slews of seed catalogues ... ring any bells peeps?
We're all doomed!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
My bedside used to be full of womens' magazines (nearly typed girly magazines but realised that I might be misunderstood) I've now got a gardening book, seed catalogues and Grow Your Own mag.
In addition to all of the above, I now have a large chest freezer in the conservatory, filled with allotment produce, demijohns in the living room fermenting allotment brews, and buckets of allotment potatoes and onions in the kitchen.
But most of all ... my health is absolutely excellent, and the allotment keeps me pretty fit too ...
Derekthefox :D
"grow your own mag" ? I thought it was easier to buy magazines from the newsagents than grow them!!!
Quote from: timmyc on October 25, 2005, 12:23:13
"grow your own mag" ? I thought it was easier to buy magazines from the newsagents than grow them!!!
Oh dear!
HawHaw
I'm afraid the lottie does grab you like that. I dreamt about making compost the other night, how sad is that!! :-[
Hi Hawhaw,
When you wake up ina cold sweat at 3am because you're sure you've planted your onions too deep, then you know you're doomed!!
Cheers,
Rob ;)
ps. if if hadn't been dark and raining, I probably would've gone down the lotty to check - now that is sad!
I lay in bed last night worrying that I had overplanted and overplanned my allotment, and not left enough space for the potatoes I want to grow.
Didn't tell 'er indoors the real reason why I was getting up and walking round, and she thinks it was because I had indigestion..
I know it's a bloke thing, but the reading matter in my loo is all gardening books and seed catalogues...
So embarrassed. Feel better for letting that out. Phew.
i was so desperate to go out and tackle the mounting worklload on the lotment that I DID! despite the weather! came home five hours later.....even my knickers were wet through, but oh so thoroughly satisfied now i've had my fix!
I am so fed up at work with nothing to do I have taken holiday to work on the lottie and garden. Had a wonderful day yesterday. Did 3 hours work filling a skip up with hardcoare and concrete, have finished digging up the paths now!
Then in the afternoon had a wonderful 2/3 hours on the lottie, dug the bed ready for cabbages etc.., finished painting the shed etc...
and met Aiken Drum who turns out to be about 10 plots down from me!
Had such a great day, was thoroughly miserable when I got to work this morning, so have taken the afternoon off for more of the same ;D
am very jealous of those of you that get to play out all day
If only the rain would stay away! Thirdman and I are planning on spending a good few hours weeding tomorrow after we've been to the farmers market.
I used to work on average about 50 hours a week until I got my plot in september now if I can drop or swap a shift I will, its become an addiction, I cant get my fix its raining :'(
Quotecame home five hours later.....even my knickers were wet through, but oh so thoroughly satisfied now i've had my fix
Would you like to read that again & re-phrase it?  :o :-[ :-*
After spending a couple of hours on the allotment this morning, I was almost in tears at the thought of leaving my lottie. My friend and I spent our usual 2 + hours stint on the plot and when hunger and thirst takes over off we go. As we were about to leave I turned around to have a look at the plot, and I swear it spoke to me and said ' don't go Lily don't go' I didn't answer back, but I am sure that I will one day.
What am I going to do in the winter, I shall want to bring my dear Lottie home with me until the spring. My only thought is the plant as much winter stuff as possible to keep her occupied so that I can sneak off without her looking.
What's happening to me, to us. It's the Lottie syndrome and I'm sure it will become 'pandemic' if it's not kept in check.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You need to get a fisherman - it's amazing how much you can do with a headlight.......definately a lost cause here! ::)
I think I am addicted to gardening too. I get 'withdrawals' when I havent done any for a while. Even work IN the garden (not nessesarily gardening) is beter than nothing.
Then i tend to get frustrated when i do manage to get out there and the soil is too wet to do anything, or its windy and everything blows around too much and i end up shouting at the wind for spoiling things.
Worse are those fine dry perfect gardening days and (for whatever reason) I cant get into the garden (compounded if the next day is back to rain and wind again).
Mad or what?
merry tiller>> i think it says it all!
Merry Tiller,
Hee Hee
Debs
How can you presume OHs don't read?