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Welcome you guys !  This is a nice site with nice people (usually ::))

Good luck with your allotments/gardens.
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Hi from me too.

Hi LOL on the name. You're very welcome here.

Welcome  Jedi. I do not have an allotment and only grow runner beans, tomatoes and this year 2 cucumbers!! I am a novice gardener but the crowd on here are really friendly (even to oldies like me!!!) I so enjoy spending time on the forums, have banished the hoover as I hate housework.!!!! CHARLOTTE I was born in Eltham so know your part of the world, havent lived there for thirty odd years but have lots of family... Eltham, Siscup, Chislehurst, Erith etc. Happy days Jedi. Lorna. :)

Welcome Jedi  :)  I'm quite new to this forum also, but have found it the friendliest and most helpful forum ever.  As a newbie, get loads of good advice and tips.  Happy gardening!

Hey lorna, that's interesting, you being from round these parts originally.  Do you live out in the "sticks" now?  I lived in Chislehurst for about a year, now that's a really pretty part of greater London.  Pity I couldn't afford to buy there!  Astronomic house prices.

Hi Charlotte. We lived in Chislehurst for a few years. Late husbands sister still lives there. We then moved to East Sussex (Mayfield) to a bungalow with about 4plus acres. I really adored it there but husband wanted to buy a garage/filling station/haulage business so couldn't afford that in the Sussex area. We moved to the Fens in 1972 and although I have always got on great with the people I just find most of the landscape boring. (Sorry to "fennies" on the forums) Last week I was in Isle of Wight and the landscape reminded me of Sussex.. I shall be down in Chislehurst during the school summer holidays. My sister-in-law has agreed to host a big family get together, we are just waiting for a date that we are all free.Funny old world some of my great nieces and nephews (by marraige) have never met up with some of my kids so before sister-in-law brother-in-law and I get too old we decided on this get together. Boy that will be a day!!! ::) ;) Sorry for saga but thought  it might be interesting. Lorna

hi there
welcome to a brilliant site-weedgrower

lorna

Sounds like that's going to be one heck of a busy day - enjoyable though! 

Just an aside, I remember reading "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute years ago.  Chislehurst gets a mention in that book as a suitable place to take a young lady for a weekend "in the country".  IMO, it still retains a bit of that atmosphere, even though that book was written a long time ago now and it is rather more urban these days.

The fens, I have only visited once.  Yes, I can't say the landscape gripped me, but there are some pretty villages and the parish churches are of a style not seen in many other parts of the UK.  No rolling hills though.  :(

Charlotte.
 
AHA!! Maybe that is why my marraige lasted 50years!!! I was taken to Chislehurst for Sunday lunch etc  to meet my future in-laws ;D

My dad lives in Erith - small world eh Lorna?

Baggy.My nephew and his Mum (my sister) live next door to each other in Lesney Park Erith. My eldest brother lives in Belvedere.
Unfortunately our family get together in Chislehurst (originally planned for tomorrow) has been cancelled due to one of the IMPORTANT family member cannot make it. Probably have to be half term now. That family member teaches in Malvern
and is always very busy during term time. My kids are quite upset as they were looking forward to meeting all of husbands family. Never mind, my sister-in-law is determind to make it another date. Best wishes Lorna.
PS What part of Kent are you?

Bexley - the grotty bit

Baggy. Wouldn't call Bexley grotty. I think I will be in Erith for a week to keep my sister company when her son goes out to Australia for a month. He wants to celebrate his 60th birthday with his sons. That will be in Sept, no doubt we will go "shopping" in Bexleyheath. Regards Lorna.

My plot is near Hall Place.  You are right, Bexley isn't grotty although Bexlyheath can be a bit grim at times.  Don't risk the broadway on a fri/sat evening - youth culture and excessive drinking abounds.  However there is a Wilkos and poundland so it can't all be bad  ;)