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This explains why it is great down the allotment  ;D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6509781.stm

Brill, something we've all known all along without even knowing it! Gardening certainly kept me going when i first had my babes.  8)

Excellent, does that mean that I don't have to clean all the mud I have just walked in off the floor? ;)

I think some people are immune to it. The erm "grubbier" members of our allotment fraternity also happen to be most miserable bu99ers imaginable

Maybe they're just happy being miserable :D

you know reading that about dirt being good for you, my mind flashed back to when i was a kid making mud pies while friends worried about getting their frocks a bit dirty years later i started making things out of clay demonstrating as i sold at craft fairs i was surprised at the number of people that said " how could you bear to have your hands so dirty i think over clean people are unhappy people
marg ;D

I'm a great believer in a little bit of dirt does you good. I too can remember making mud pies and the other favourite thing (which made me dirty in a way which made my mother really cross) was popping tar bubbles in the road on hot days. The roads are probably too busy for youngsters to do that these days!

I'm sure a read somewhere that the 'experts' think that one of the main reasons for the increase in allergies and/or asthma is the fact that children are brought up in houses which are too clean. It's not necessarily the cleanliness which is too blame, but the chemicals used in doing the cleaning.

I think that's an excellent reason for not having a spotless house :o, although I admit to recently buying a book all about using vinegar and toothpaste etc. for cleaning purposes. I haven't put any of it into practice yet!

My grandmother used to say, "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die", and she lived to be 100.  (That might have been down to the Guinness, though ....)

I definitely think it's worth giving your antibodies something to keep them on their toes.

Oh yes  ;D I'm a big fan of filth  ;D

so'm I..my fingers are dirty most of the time, I just keep forgetting to put my gloves on and it's difficult to plant teeny tiny seeds with gloves on anyway..that's my story and I'm sticking to it  ;D

The thing about getting dirty is don`t you feel good when you are all scrubbed and clean,  My favorite, a whole day at the lotty getting filty, home, bath, nice dinner sit by the fire all snug knowing that you`ve do a full days  graft, so relaxing. Next morning somthing or other aches, when this happens we always say that we have "Lottment Leg"

I must show that to my OH. She says I spend too much time at the plot. Now i have another reason to add to my list.... ;)

I am sure it is true. It is so lovely to be in the lottie after the winter. Perhaps I shall have ot take a tray of earth to play with inside next winter!!!!