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Oh yes. that is a real good point, I sneakily bought 3 month sizes and even posting them to Canada which took 4 weeks to get there the day after she was born they were too small and she never got to wear them, XX Jeannine

Nice idea Trixie.  :)  I've wanted to make a couple of posts on here in the last few days, but wasn't sure where to put them.  Probably just to get them out of my head more than in the belief that anyone will want to actually read them.  :D

Our new lottie isn't shaping up very fast, because we're working on replacing the glazing in the roof of the 12 foot timber greenhouse we inherited on it.  All the timber struts had sagged, and the glass had fallen out (we now have a huge pile of broken glass to get rid of.  So OH and I have replaced the timber supports, braced them with new timber where necessary, and bound up all edges with bits cut from car rubber matting (got to love Poundland).  Today we're going to cover the roof with poly tunnel polythene, kindly donated by a neighbouring allotmenteer (lovely folk they are down our allotments  :) ).  Then I get to work inside, and OH gets started outside.

There's a shed there too - lovely big one, but one half of its roof had slipped out of the notches cut in the side for the beams.  A bit of brute strength (and a small worry about the efficacy of my pelvic floor emerged at that point  :o ) and we managed to heave it back into place.

One thing I have spotted - one side of our plot is absolutely thick with sweetpea plants which have obviously self-sown.  I can't wait for them to start flowering - it's going to be gorgeous.  And we have some strawberries flowering in among the weeds and grass.  Add this to the foundations and structure of a poly tunnel which have been unearthed, and we can see a real future for this plot.

Got my tatties and onions growing merrily at the allotment we share, but that one's not nearly half as much fun as having your own to do with as you will.

Hope everyone's having a nice Sunday.  :)

Sounds fab Den  ;D

You're the reason I'm so thrilled to have this one to do with as I like, Trix.  I saw the photos of your cottage garden type of lottie, and thought "That's what I want to do".  We're confined to our (raised) beds in t'other one, because it's not ours.  This allotment will be more free-flowing.  :D

Manics she  is 31 weeks. She had an internal (!) scan which said baby would be born any time after 33 weeks. Likewise with Sam, we weren't allowed to buy anything 'til she had passed 28 weeks. Going for it big time now though ;D
Fencing all up in tiny garden and beds will be marked out and dug  tomorrow. I'm just loving this. Hope you had a good day out.
Lorna, what's going in your raised beds? Are you doing all this yourself?
DenBee your plot sounds like Aladins Cave. :o

Yep, doing it myself, the sides came from son's workshop so I only really had to put ends on. Blimey they are high, I have named them my "high rise" raised beds :) made second one yesterday. Young Lorna's front borders were far too high so the guy who does a bit of gardening for her is lowering them and wheeling the surplus soil round to mine and putting it in to the second bed. Phew that will save me a job. I still have one more to make and fill, they are on my small veg area so hope I have enough soil to fill the last one. They will be for veg and salad plus some pots of veg. All have a nice lot of horse manure in them. Will take pics, anything for a laugh ;D

it,s may 1st it is now two and a half hours to having the hated cast off and i am terrified !! what if it,s not ready and they put another on? how will it feel walking on it again?well i shall know later i,v such a lot of catching up to do
some thing i feel pleased with myself for doing is spring cleaning my computer i foolwed the instuctions from a book called pc knowledge for seniors and although i cancelled the ongoing subscription at £15 a month the basic stuff is helpful
things are faster then before wish me luck
marg

keeping everything crossed, marg..here's hoping you're up and able to do soon.. :)

Good luck Marg. hope it all goes well but don't go mad otherwise you will be hobbling again. Let us know.
Lorna.

i,m freeeeeeeeeeee  i,v got rid of the ugly heavy lump i have been living with, no not OH, my plaster the ankle is swollen ,bruised and very stiff but i,m walking a bit limpy but hopfully able to drive tomorrow and work in 2 weeks i,ll have to see about the digging !! first thing i did was scrub my leg in the bath then slap loads of body lotion on thanks for your support promise to shut up about it from now on
it,s going to be so good to get back to normal
marg ;D

just don't go too mad, too soon, who am I kidding?  enjoy your freedom  ;D

Good result Marg. Take it easy, like Manic said don't go mad.
Lorna

Get yourself a bottle of wine to celebrate, and get yourself plastered girl.  ;D ;D ;D

what a good idea ;D ;D ;D ;D
marg

Great stuff Omarg,glad to hear the purple beast has gone. You must feel like a thing released.......  ;D

 :D :D :D Just realised this had moved down a couple of pages, brought it back up in case Trixie has any more hilarious stories to tell us.   Needing cheered up a bit.    ;D ;D

Sorry I'm a bit late Carol!

Today's antics at the allotment were mainly 'communication' based as opposed to anything to do with gardening (well it was too wet to do anything anyway!)

JACK & PADDY'S WHISTLING HEARING-AID COMPETITION

Two EXTREMELY deaf gentlemen sat in my shed trying to hear what the other one was saying and tuning into some AWFUL frequencies on their artificial aids to communication. I'm sure one of them got a Russian radio station at some point.

Me and Alfie had to go and sit 100 yds away and we could still hear high pitched whining and the words "WHAT" & "PARDON, I'M A BIT DEAF YOU KNOW" being imparted at a million decibels.

ME AND AHMED SWAP MOBILE PHONE NUMBERS

Me and Ahmed are pretty similar when it comes to mobile phone technology. We're both c**p!

We decided to swap mobile numbers today in case there's an emergency of some sort i.e. a tomato plant desperately need watering or one of my dandelion seeds has floated over his hedge and needs removing ASAP.

Conversation as follows:

AHMED: "Right, if you phone me then I'll be able to put your number automatically into my phone"
TRIXIE: "What's your phone number then?"
AHMED: "I don't know."
TRIXIE: "Well is there anyone you can ring to ask for it?"
AHMED: "The wife's gone to town shopping and my daughter's in Peterborough"
TRIXIE: "Ohhh hang on! You phone ME and then I'll have YOUR phone number"
AHMED: "Do you know your phone number"
TRIXIE: "Of course I do! Dial this no...."
AHMED: "I haven't got my glasses. Here, you dial your own phone on mine"
TRIXIE: "How do you dial out on this phone?"
AHMED: "You press that ...... NOOOO, NOT THAT ONE!"
TRIXIE: "I think I've just deleted someone on your address book"
AHMED: "What the bl**dy hell have you done?"
TRIXIE: "I DON'T BL**DY KNOW, IT'S YOUR BL**DY PHONE! YOU DO IT!"

We finally decided to write down our phone numbers on a lovely, reliable piece of paper and phone each other as 'missed calls' so we could work out how to put them in the address book later. VERY sensible I thought!

An hour later I get a phone call .....

AHMED: "Who is this?"
TRIXIE: "It's me"
AHMED: "You have just phoned me. You came up as a missed call. Who are you?"

It's probably quicker to send each other a letter in the post  ::)

ALFIE BRANSON

Alfie's got chicken pox. His sister Daisy and her mates came to visit us at the allotment to see the baby rabbits and they wanted to see his spots (he's COVERED in them)

The little sod charged them 20p a peek ;D Quite enterprising I thought. AND he showed them all individually so he made a quid!

Is that enough to cheer you up Carol?!  ;D

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Don't know where Carol is but that cheered me up Trixie.
Lorna

Oooo sorrrrreeee Trixie, late in tonight,    :D :D :D :D :D  thats wasa good, thank you thank you.  You are wonderful for cheering me up.  I would really love to meet your lotty friends they and you are hilarious.