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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

OH got a book from the library and I .... nicked it Razz

Called 'Allotted time' by Robin Shelton .... tis about '12 months, 2 blokes, 1 shed, no idea'..... True story about err.... 2 blokes starting an allotment....and building a shed from scratch...
Very entertaining Very Happy

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3929

oooooo sounds fab Very Happy

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

if you have 'borrowed' it for that long we will expect quotes you know Wink

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

No no I 'nicked' it from HIM , not the library Shocked

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

aaaah

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

reedos · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

And I have it Laughing

Got it for my birthday Very Happy

He's got a dog called Charlie - it could have been me Very Happy

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JAGS · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

Nope.............ain't based in cyprus..................smug bastid ya Razz

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reedos · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

Well that's you not having a lend of it Razz

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JAGS · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

Double bastid wi knobs on then......... Razz

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wardy · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:19 am Post subject:

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

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I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: allotment story

frenchchique wrote:

OH got a book from the library and I .... nicked it Razz

Called 'Allotted time' by Robin Shelton .... tis about '12 months, 2 blokes, 1 shed, no idea'..... True story about err.... 2 blokes starting an allotment....and building a shed from scratch...
Very entertaining Very Happy

Sounds like something we'd write!!! Laughing

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reedos · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject:

It's exactly like something we'd write - and I wish I'd thought of it first Rolling Eyes

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

Me too

Glad you liked it Andy.... Honestly, try and get hold of a copy, it's very funny.... Spec. when he goes back 14 times to check on his seedlings 'grow you bastids' Laughing

oh and there's the time when he cuts off bits off his toms.... I did that Shocked

etc etc

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Welsh Girls Allotment · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

I am halfway through this at the moment it good, the other plotter make me smile especially Ken and his pointing stick !