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this be me and my nanny, a fortnight ago

sowed 18 onions (from a set) and two rows of peas today! yeeeyyy

my friend Charlotte has a bag packed with essentials, its her 'omg my house is on fire quick grabbit' bag =D i think id take... handbag, it has the essential stuff.. keys/purse/polo mints =] my new trug, cause i had it for my birthday and its adorable and i named it Arnold my craft boxes, because i ...

ive had a plot for about 2 months and its taken most of that to clear long grass, thistles, nettles, a pond and an old tree.. 2 weeks ago i had 2 beds dug, and im thinking of digging a narrower one and then thatll be it for now. ill get some winter crops in and leave the rest til spring top 10 thing...

on sept 30th i harvested some seeds from an onion that had flowered, and instead of keeping them, i planted them straight away.. checked on them today and theyre coming up =D most are only 1-2cm tall, but yaaaaaay all the same. just wondered whens the right time to move them from the seed tray [ther...

oooohh, ill look into them, thankye!

get some fimo and make stuff.. pen holders, name plates, door hanger things..

i do like the wood carving ideas

haha, yes its typed better.. it actually has punctuation in the proper places ;) pretty much all the sites ive been on to get addresses/contact info have all said 'no agencies' so i think thats a non-starter. ive got about 20 places so far, and im drafting letters so theyre specific to each company,...

waheyyy, pushin the boat out, me! ive decided to go to uni next year to do a 3 or 4 year Geology degree. since im no longer at college, i thought that if i could get a placement with an oil exploration company, or mudlogging.. something which will involve geology/geologists.. then itll help a) my ap...

happy place wrote:guys all you need to know for a happy marriage (and i know this really works cause my dad told me ) is



YES DEAR



(it also annoys the pants out of my beloved)

this would be my daddys fave saying haha. ive started saying it to my bloke...

my friend came round and dug the first patch today and we started on the second =D and the guy who has a plot just over the dirt track from me has offered me the rest of his onions =D

I think scrobble must be VERY localised as it was something all my friends knew when I was small. This was in Bromsgrove/Redditch when they were sleepy little backwaters and not the overflow from bulldozed bits of Birmingham which Redditch has definitely become and Bromsgrove partially so. The each...

That's it! Although my son (we're visiting and right in the thick of Brummie accents at the moment) has just pointed out that the right way to say it is Brummajum. I suppose that's where Brum comes from... My Dad's father was a Black Country chap and his "English" was something else. I remember him...

I remember scrages! I was always scraging my knees when I was a kid. And how about scrobble? Another word which I thought was "real" English until I was about 10. I once heard two old chaps at the bus stop in deep conversation about local news. The one said to the other "There was a bint knocked of...

....are they supposed to be bright pink?!!

ill upload a pic when i get chance, but me & my mom were just picking some and i thought they were too skinny to get seeds from, so i picked a fat one and its got 2 huge neon pink seeds in, which has actually made my day