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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2006 23:23:33 GMT
.....and it's not just me!  |
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Post by skarloey on Sept 9, 2006 6:48:12 GMT
I was at my lottie yesterday (still feels good to say that  ) and I made myself a new best friend. I didn't ask him his name but he must be about 80 years old and his plot is next to ours. In fact his house is at the bottom of my plot. I told him I was now sharing the plot with MIL (who he knows as they live opposite each other), he looked me up and down and raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything and I really thought I was going to have trouble cracking this nut but then his dog (well I use that term loosely, it was some sort of poodly thing - very cute though) appeared, leaped on me and licked me to death! At this point, all I could think of was "please get off, I know you lick your own @r*e!", but refrained from saying this and told him what a lovely boy he was - the dog, not the old fella. Well, the old fella was astonished, he said that he was normally the only one the dog behaved like that to and then proceded to tell me all about his life, which was nice but I had some digging to do.  The best bit was though, I offered to bring him a couple of loads of manure which he accepted with thanks and then off he went to fetch his hose pipe (we don't have water on the site) and filled up our tanks and watered the rest of the stuff which is in MILs bit! Thank god for the dog eh? ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2006 10:30:04 GMT
Hi Skarloey Good news that you have got a new best friend at the allotment, especially when he lives so close and has a hose pipe!! (good swap for manure!!)  I have found there is quite abit of 'allotment ettiquette' - or there certainly is in these parts. When I first started a few of the older chaps 'thought I might like' the odd bit of produce from their plot ( this was usually huge courgettes or stuff that they didn't want), I quickly found out that it's not polite to turn this stuff down!! Having said that, alot of it went into the compost bin but they never knew!!  |
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Post by skarloey on Sept 11, 2006 17:50:13 GMT
Thanks for the tip GH, we only have 6 plots on the site and one of them is hardly ever touched, (the one I tried to get for myself if you remember). A couple have the next door but one plot but they are away at the moment. So there are three plot holders left to meet.
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Post by jlottie on Sept 11, 2006 19:41:06 GMT
My plot is one of 5 and now there are only 2 being used so I don't get to see many of the other plot holders unless someone from the other 10 plots see my car and come over to see what I am up to, then I usually get an invite over to see the chickens and have a nosey around the 'other side'. When my strawberries shrivelled up in the heat earlier in the year one of them dropped a huge tub from their plot into my work which I really appreciated. The older plot holders stood back and watched when I first started, but I later learn't that they had nicknamed me the human JCB lol. I am still trying to convince my local council to provide a water supply and so far have 8 out of 15 plot holders behind me and I am gently chasing up the others. They can't escape, because of where I work, I'll get to see them all sooner or later  |
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) and I made myself a new best friend. I didn't ask him his name but he must be about 80 years old and his plot is next to ours. In fact his house is at the bottom of my plot.
