Sore hands again

[Mrs Ava]

Well, I can bore you all rigid now with tales of my day.  Ava agreed to have the sprogs for the day, so by 10.30 I was down on the lottie.  Couldn't believe my eyes as I wasn't alone!  :o  Three other chaps there.  Most I have seen in one go.  Firstly I trapsed past them all with my bags of kitchen waste for my compost heap, 'morning all' I cried.  Back through the site to the car to get my sack of composted horse manure - boy was it heavy.  They all laughed and then said, 'mustn't joke, she'll drop it'.  Hmmmm.....thanks chaps.  Then all the way back to the car for the cloches.  'Ooo look, the young 'un is going to teach us all how to do it.....got yourself a couple of canoes there girl.....going down the stream....they will only blow all over the plot.....'  Hmmmm, with friends like that!  Anyhows, within 30 minutes they had all gone, and I was forking over the last of my plot.  It looks lovely, better than my garden!  My broadbeans are tall and strong, and my garlics and onions are all going to be GIANTS.  Just as I was coming to the end of my forking, I heard a noise and knew I wasn't alone, and out of the corner of my eye I spied a foxy.  Scrawny little critter, but between him and the robins I had a happy face.  ;D  Then I ventured over the my new half plot.  Not as bad as it first seemed.  It appeared to be all grass, but upon inspection it looks as though the plot was probably worked just a year or so ago as the grass is patchy and lifts quite easily, so I was able to spend an hour digging the new bit.  Hopefully, this will be my pumpkin patch, as like Tims daughter, I love all the different squashes.  Finished my flask and was home to take over care of the children by 3pm.  Not a bad half a days work really.  Now my hands are very sore, my hair is full of mud and my lips are all dry and windswept. Good day huh.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Mrs Ava]

[tim]

- at least you'll sleep the sleep of the just? = Tim

[Debs]

But doesn't it make you feel good !!

I don't think you can beat the self-satisfying feeling ....

and like you , for me it's a great escape from the kids, housework and everything else !!

PS Have noticed how dry and sore my hands are too-even though I wore gloves.  Am hoping to persuade hubby and les enfants to have another trip to the lottie tomorrow-as long as it doesn't snow !! :-/

Debs :D

[flowerbaby_uk]

same here my allotments my sanctuary am off down there tommorow to put in a few hours whatever the weather happiness is a lottie  ;D ;D

[Ceri]

I got a couple of child-free hours in yesterday - it was lovely.  A couple of plotters down there as well so lots of nice gossipy moments.  I got lots of excellent advice from Phil in the next lottie who won the leek show last year.  However, my illusions are shattered slightly - his show leeks he grows from seed and endlessly babies them, but he rather quietly admitted that the leeks he grows for cooking he buys half-grown and just transplants.  I was gobsmacked.  Mind you, he does have four plots, one for racing pigeons, grows most everything else from seed and is blind!  Interestingly, he finely scatters pigeon manure like you would fertilizer over his plot when its fresh and doesn't have any problems - perhaps the little and often approach doesn't do the scorching/nitrogen robbery thing I'm always told about.

[allotment_chick]

Ooooh EJ - envious, envious envious!  ;)

It's bloomin' freezing here and blowing a hooley - this means no going to the lottie as I'd curl up fom exposure!   :(

Spent yesterday in the greeny sowing more broad bean seeds and potting on a few bits .....

Re sore hands (and I get them despite wearing gloves ...), I can recommended two products from a certain High Street Shop for the Body !

One is Hawthorne Hand Cream and the other is Africa Spa hand and foot cream (for those rhino skin days).  HUGELY expensive - but they work!

Going away to sulk now as no digging for me ....   :'(

AC x

[legless]

nice one EJ!

i only managed an hour yesterday morning as we had visitors coming but i would have loved to have spent the day as it was such a lovely day. they have just gone, was hoping to get down now but its snowing and therefore much less appealing!!

debs, i have some strawberry plants potted up for you if you want  them, we'll have to see if we are both there at the same time one day!!

[Doris_Pinks]

Oh lucky you EJ.
went up to mine today to pick veges for dinner, and nearly froze all my extremities off! (our weather station at the house was reading a -10c windchill!!) Picked an ran I am afraid :-(  hoping for better weather once the kids go back to school on wednesday :-) DP

[aquilegia]

ooh lovely!

But I'm jealous. Managed no more than a few walks round the garden for the past couple of weeks - I blame a combination of me having a cold, it being cold and me being far too busy.

I'm rather optimistically hoping we'll be able to start digging this weekend!

[Fingle....]

Is it ladies only on this thread ? Very bored at work today....wish i was digging away.

Was very cold yeterday and i was nearly decapitated by flying glass !!!

[Mrs Ava]

Flying glass Fingle.  What were you up to?