Re: Gardening Thread.

**Sabot** Sat May 19, 2012 9:16 pm

lily wrote:Glad you got the grass cut - or most of it - Sabot.

I am thinking positively and with a bit of luck some of the warmth from the big yellow thing will reach you tomorrow and it will leave us with less.

It was 105 deg F here at 7 PM.

No chance, Lily. Rain for at least four days. But not something I need to get hysterical about. The bit that I left was the least of it, and I did get a bit soaked in finishing off the worst of it. This is grass cutting for a living. Your entire life revolves around Rain for six sodding months of the year. You spend half of your life on Meteo Sites, hoping that things might change, which they rarely do.
What a laugh. It will rain on Monday, And then tomorrow I hope that it won't rain on Monday. But it probably will.

**lily** Sat May 19, 2012 9:23 pm

Lamplighter wrote:Between 40 and 42C which, as I remember, is par for the course where Lily is. LL

Thanks LL. hug

I'm still not completely au fait with this Celsius stuff. embarass

Sabot. I hope the weather will be fine so that you can at least mow. smile

**Sabot** Sat May 19, 2012 9:36 pm

lily wrote:Oh, it's that hot Bonny. It feels okay right now as I am used to that but it will be getting hotter..........

Oh you lucky thing. I could cope with that with no problem whatsoever. And I did for a while in Singapore. In fact I never quite recovered from being permanently hot to being never quite sure. Being forced back to UK was almost certainly the ruination of me. Apart from the servants, of course. My Amah loved my children almost more than I did, and I never recovered from that, not least for her. Taking my baby away from her was the most awful thing that I ever had to do. I will remember that until the day that I die.

**lily** Sat May 19, 2012 9:41 pm

Singapore is beautiful Sabot. Well the Singapore of several years ago. Have you been since it all changed?

Poor nanny.

**Sabot** Sat May 19, 2012 11:11 pm

lily wrote:Singapore is beautiful Sabot. Well the Singapore of several years ago. Have you been since it all changed?

Poor nanny.

They who supposedly knew, told me that it had all changed before I went there. But I still thought that it was wonderful, perhaps because it has a presence. It is just so. And I did live and work there.
One of my sons spent half of his very young life down at the Kampong because that is where he wanted to be. He was out of the door and down the road before I could stop him, and why would I have wanted to? Although nowadays one might think that I was a bad mother because I let him run wild with the natives. But I very much doubt that he was ever at risk. And he could climb a six foot fence at the age of three if he wanted to go and play with his Chinese friends.
My Amah knew what he was up to, and she made sure that he would be okay. She lived in that Kampong. But not that there was ever anything to worry about.
My youngest son is a Singapore Citizen, and he spent a fair amount of time in that same Kampong because I allowed her to take him to stay with her family. I have never in all my life trusted anyone as much as I trusted her. I trusted her to look after my babies, and so she always did.
She must be almost my age by now, and I hope that she had babies of her own. I wrote to her for a while but she couldn't write back, and so I have never known what happened to her.
There is so much more to tell about my time in Singapore, but none of it has much to do with being Naval Wife.

**bb1** Sat May 19, 2012 11:21 pm

This is the wonderful new Halford's ad:

I am surprised that the forkers haven't demanded its removal, as it shows children having FUN without a Perfect Parent wringing their hands and telling them to stop it.

**Sabot** Sun May 20, 2012 12:09 am

Do you know? No, of course you don't. But I once left all of my very young boys camping in some God awful wood, miles from bloody anywhere because that is what they wanted to do. And No, I didn't go creeping around at night to see if they were okay. I just went there every morning to ask if they wanted to come home. They lasted for four days, and good on them.
However, I put up their bloody tent, and I lit their first fire, and I found the stream from where they got their water. But we don't talk about that.

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 9:18 am

What? You didn't leave them out of your sight for even a second?

Were you like one of them parents in that Halfords video? Shocked

Isn't it horrid that the children of more recent times aren't free like we were?

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 11:15 am

I should think the forkers go into fainting fits every time they see the Halfords ad, Lily.

Playing in water without arm bands and a lifeguard on hand? Using a catapalt? Camping without an adult in sight?

That's their idea of child abuse - they don't understand why children don't want to be manacled to their doting mummies 24/7.

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 11:24 am

Ah, you mean they love the Nanny State? Pcorneater

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 11:40 am

It's their Yuman Rite, innit?

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 11:46 am

Yer well, it is, Bonny. They must not think for themselves as they have to be told what to do by the Nanny herself?

Now, that's why they haven't read the files......... Pcorneater

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 11:58 am

I don't know how they manage to cross roads by themselves, Lily.

As it is still 'Go' on the shiny yellow thing in the sky, I will soon be going outside and using sharp implements and cutting devices - some of them electrically powered!

And I won't have an Elf 'n' Safety Advisor standing over me!

Living dangerously or what?

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 12:01 pm

Life on the edge there, Bonny. You might get someone come around to tell you off if you don't stop it.

Have you taken many courses in the use of said implements?

And, come to think of it, why is Sabot allowed to use hedge cutters and things too?

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 12:14 pm

Especially with the 'gin' issue, Lily. I fink it is Sabot's Yuman Rite to have Social Workers cut the grass for her, wiv trainee busybodies hiding her gin for her own good.

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 12:25 pm

I definitely agree with you, Bonny. She could do another thread about Elf N Safety in the garden?

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 12:37 pm

Good idea, we must be more safety-conscious all round.

I mean, anything could happen in a garden, you could get scratched or something. Or stung by a nettle.

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 12:45 pm

Nettle stings? Eek

You have to go see a speshulist for them. Then after you gets well, you are hauled before the nettle conservation board. Crying or Very sad

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 12:52 pm

'S OK, I make sure I have my Official Elf 'n' Safety quota of docken leaves to offset the nettles, Lily...

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 1:02 pm

Oh thanks for the tip, Bonny. I will always remember that. Mind you, it didn't help me coz I had to pay a fine for having some of them nettles' nettles in me leg. I did try to be careful where I stepped after that. I mean, the ground has feelings....... Pcorneater

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 4:14 pm

Reporting in from the jungle....preliminary clearance has gone well, further exploration abandoned till tomorrow due to operative's need for a Magnum and a Coke. biggrin

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 4:44 pm

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16231648

Is It A Bird, Is It A Plane? No, It's The Sun!

Oh, is that what that big yellow thing is? I'd forgotten.....

**lily** Sun May 20, 2012 5:56 pm

bb1 wrote:Reporting in from the jungle....preliminary clearance has gone well, further exploration abandoned till tomorrow due to operative's need for a Magnum and a Coke.

Oh, I haven't had a Magnum in ages. Good for you!

**bb1** Sun May 20, 2012 9:10 pm

I came across this site when I was looking for something else:

http://www.videojug.com/tag/gardening

It has a lot of good ideas on it.

**Sabot** Sun May 20, 2012 9:45 pm

Thanks, Bonny. That looks like a good Site.

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