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Mary-Jane
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 18397 Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
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Penny Outskirts
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 18397 Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
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oldish chris
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 4148 Location: Comfortably Wet Southport
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oldish chris
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 18397 Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 7:16 am Post subject: |
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oldish chris wrote: |
cab wrote: |
It occurs to me that if cutting the grass takes four hours, you've got too much grass. Get pigs. |
Cab's thought process is getting there. As far as I am aware, it is a universal fact that people who do gardens (1) know absolutely nothing about gardening and (2) are always unreliable. M.J., your suggestion of employing someone isn't a solution, it is an additional problem. The grass would continue to grow, the person would either make it look worse or not turn up.
(IMHO) a bottle of Shiraz and a long cogitate are called for. Then redisign that part of the garden for low maintenance, e.g. chicken ark, wildlife garden, concrete. |
Well gosh, thanks for that OC. According to your (no doubt impeccable) reasoning, a) I know nothing about gardening; b) the very nice young man who is working for me is utterly unreliable and is going to ruin my garden; c) I have made additional problems for myself; d) I urgently need to completely re-design my garden by filling it with concrete.
And you managed to come up with solutions from your armchair, never having seen our garden, not knowing what we have achieved so far and not being aware of any of our plans?
That's truly amazing. I prostrate myself at your feet... |
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lettucewoman
Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 7834 Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 7:52 am Post subject: |
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just found this on the web.....it wasn't you was it MJ????
At least one man or woman needed to do some casual work in grounds of farmhouse in area of outstanding natural beauty 30 mins from Charing Cross station...clearing brambles from shrubberies, emptying hay barn, gardening depending on skill level....board and lodging included and to die for on their own, even before getting paid! Maybe some farm work too, repairs, spraying, if you're getting on well. Perhaps a spot of painting if it happened to rain. A good old tidy up. How many days? i dunno, maybe 3 or 4 person days. The more useful you are the more jobs I'll find. Its a cool place to be. I reckon if you get collected from station, put up in a listed 1585 house and fed plenty of rare breed meat and real eggs, then a traveller could do a good days work for £40. Bring your boyfriend or walk up to the safa pub and try to score there. I just want some people who aren't a nuisance and sort out those things I never do. |
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hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 5834 Location: Daft wench GHQ
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 8:18 am Post subject: |
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oldish chris wrote: |
cab wrote: |
It occurs to me that if cutting the grass takes four hours, you've got too much grass. Get pigs. |
Cab's thought process is getting there. As far as I am aware, it is a universal fact that people who do gardens (1) know absolutely nothing about gardening and (2) are always unreliable. M.J., your suggestion of employing someone isn't a solution, it is an additional problem. The grass would continue to grow, the person would either make it look worse or not turn up.
(IMHO) a bottle of Shiraz and a long cogitate are called for. Then redisign that part of the garden for low maintenance, e.g. chicken ark, wildlife garden, concrete. |
May I just say that, speaking as a recently retired PROFESSIONAL gardener/designer, that's a lot of cr*p, Chris? |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 5834 Location: Daft wench GHQ
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