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Hi everyone, I am still finding my way round this site - there is so much on here is a bit overwhelming.

I am 29, live with my boyfriend in Bedford. We have an 80ft garden which was a wreck when we moved in last october and as of last week a 70ft allotment, also in Bedford at the end of our road. No kids, only tropical fish!
OH is a glory gardener - got interested in the garden in June when it came to planting beetroot and radishes, but was not so keen when I was ripping up bushes and hacking stuff down on cold January mornings! So is just me and my  i-pod half the time, which suits us fine actually  :)

Update for the curious.

No comment.  Except to say out of wellies for a change!!

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 :) And very smart too! 8)

I'll second that, Roy!  They say every picture tells a story, Tim, but your piccie doesn't tell enough - were you singing, giving a "talk", or telling funny stories (that glass in your hand  :o).  #Anyway you look in fine form and long may you flourish.

Used to love seeing all the pics in personal profiles ..............

Nothing so glamorous - just asked No.1 daughter to do a pic as she saw me, in case I should need it.

Dressed up? VERY unusual - this was for the filming of a documentary. Without the drink!!

When are we going to see you on the tele then Tim ;D :)

Having read about half the pages on this subject (I'll do the next half tomorrow) in the spirit of openness I'd tell you a little bit about me.
I'm a 37 year old Geordie living in Gateshead with 2 boys of 6 and 7, a wife who won't let me have chickens (none of whom have any interest in growing stuff) 2 cats and soon a cocker spaniel puppy. I'm a civil servant, but would really rather be a professional allotmenteer, but unless the numbers come up no chance of that. In my spare time apart from the allotment I've just taken up golf, having just retired from playing football, coach an under 7's football team and am sort of doing a correspondence course in garden design incorporating the RHS general exam as well as acting as an unpaid chauffeur to the above mentioned 2 boys.

My proper name's Andy by the way ;D

Nice to her about you reedos (Andy).  Good to have another Geordie on the Board.  :) busy_lizzie (Whitley Bayer)

reedos>> who u doing ur course with...i'm with klc!

I'm with KLC as well, but struggling to find time. My plan is to crack on when the clocks go back instead of reading seed catalogues.

By the way hello everyone. Wardy don't tell everybody we are nice they'll all want to come ;D

Wardy Wardy Wardy!!! You have commited a most tremendous faux pas! A Northumbrian (where I know you spent most of your hols) would never want to be considered a Geordie!  A Geordie has particular roots and in folklore must have been born within blah blah blah of the Tyne.  Geordies belong to Newcastle not Northumberland. Northumbrians speak in a whole different way and if you are lucky a whole different dialect. Geordieland is not Northumberland..it is Newcastle and the towns that are beside it along the river Tyne. Thinking Wallsend here.

  A Geordie would not consider those from the other side of the water (Tyne)to be true Geordies!  The many accents considered to be Geordie on TV today are infact the accents of Macams, Tacams and Monkey Hangers.

Reedos my OH hails from Rowlands Gill  Gatesheed.  How ya doin mate!?!!

I on the other hand am a total imposter though brought up in Newcastle!!

H x

I know Wardy, neglecting my studies by typing on here !!

Hi Heldi - I'm canny thanks - I know Rolands Gill well, used to cycle down from Whickham as a boy and play in the river, it's a bugger going back up it  :(
And by the way I wouldn't come round to this part of Gateshead and even suggest that they are Makems, you wouldn't get out alive, anyway you can't blame Wardy for not knowing the difference between us, according to the media a geordie appears to be anybody from Middlesbrough to Berwick. Still as far as most of us are concerned anybody south of Lincolnshire is a Cockerney. ;D

Heehee!  My mate went out with a monkey hanger for a while. They HATE that don't they! Wardy I am only setting you straight for your next holiday up here. Little background info an all that!


Reedos I did not mean to infer that Gateshead people are macams (heeheehee) only that there are people on tv meant to be geordies but who...erm...aren't! I did say within a certain "blah blah blah" of the Tyne...I didn't say which side of the Tyne !  I mentioned Wallsend because I was romancing about Sting...sorry an all that but I have a thing for Sting !  Phoooaarr!

oh you can say geordie for wallsend...on the tyne that is.!

Sigh ...Sting......

oops - supposed to be writing letters - instead just spent v long time reading about all you chaps, so here's me:
I'm Chloe married to Adrian 3 years ago on sunny beach in Grenada, carribean island since devastated by hurricane :(
Our son was born 13 months ago and has just lifted his cricket bat for the first time at the St Lawrence Ground, home of Kent county cricket (boy genius ;D)
I've been into plants'n'stuff since i was 16 (so that's nearly 12 years now) and before we moved to kent when i was pregnant i worked for three years in the plant centre at RHS Wisley - a fantastic place to work i'm sure you can imagine. I love to cook.. and eat, i'll read anything, i love movies - new, old, foreign, blockbuster, indie... and i now seem to spend an innordinate amount of time on A4A - if the hoovering doesn't get done i'll blame you lot.
I am delighted to make your aquaintance..  :)

One of my few claims to fame Heldi and Reedos is that Stings, Dad, Ernie used to be our milkman and Sting used to collect the milk money from us occasionally when he was a student.  My sister-inlaw also was in the same class as he was.   :) busy_lizzie

Do you remember him very well?  Did he look like a scrawny scruff or was he tastey? Hahaha!

I am just a stones throw south of Hartlepool.
They can take the joke about the monkey these days - in fact, their museum has all sorts of information about it - and they make plenty of money selling books about the story.
;)

And, 40 miles south of Newcastle, I get fed up of being labelled a Geordie.
:(