About 2 months ago I started a new topic..."what is it?" Well I have the answer and what a funny story its been. One day during the summer holidays I bumped into a tenant who appeared to look a bit frantic; he was walking round and round the whole of the allotment. I asked what was troubling him. He said he was looking for his vegetable! As you can imagine I was very confused. He then enlightened me. Earlier in the year he dropped a whole lot of seeds on the way to his plot and felt devastated because it was his favourite vegetable. But since then he felt curious to see if his seeds had taken root in any one else's plot. The penny dropped! I told him that I had a mysterious vegetable growing in my plot and wondered if it could be the missing seeds! We promptly walked across to my plot and I pointed to the mysterious plant. He let out a whoop and said that was his squash. The name to the mysterious squash is a 'Gem' I'd never heard of it before but it grew to the size of a medicine ball and very heavy to carry home! My family and I had many a delicious meal from it! Of course he allowed me to have it and in return I have washed and dried the seeds and returned them to him!
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Great news that you figured out what it was, it looks like a water melon.
I hope you told him to stop walking accross peoples plots and use the paths next time :)
Neil
Don't you just love happy endings!
By the way, what is a medicine ball?
A leather ball (at least, they were leather when I was at school) filled with something heavy, and the size of a football. I remember the games master throwing them at us when I was at school. Gyms still give me the creeps now, and I'm not the only one.
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 15, 2010, 18:51:52
A leather ball (at least, they were leather when I was at school) filled with something heavy, and the size of a football. I remember the games master throwing them at us when I was at school. Gyms still give me the creeps now, and I'm not the only one.
the things people dreamed up in schools to toughen children! It almost makes me believe that half of what the movies show of the old British boarding schools having brutal teachers might be true. But then that's the movies, correct? Over here it is the parochial school teachers that students in my era used to complain bitterly about.
what the movies show of the old British boarding schools having brutal teachers might be true ( quote Grannie Annie)
You had better believe it. I was brought up in a convent and the movies have got nothing on that.
Quote from: shirlton on September 16, 2010, 07:28:21
what the movies show of the old British boarding schools having brutal teachers might be true ( quote Grannie Annie)
You had better believe it. I was brought up in a convent and the movies have got nothing on that.
Do you think it toughed you against difficulties more than your friends who didn't receive such strict treatment, Shirl? Was there any benefit?
I can't really say because I don't know how I would have turned out had I had a family upbringing. I do know that I wouldn't have liked my kids to have gone through it. I can still remember my number that was written on everything even my tooth brush 106