Comments on: Reluctant Gardener, day 20: Do not cut down this tree

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:01:55 +0000

More banned poems, Kathy? Great stuff. Charmaine, must’ve been fascinating living virtually on top of those allotments – I forgot how close you were. Bet you have some anecdotes of your own, eh? And Di, thanks for the compliment. Glad you’re enjoying the tales.

By: Kathy in the Wallowas

Kathy in the Wallowas — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:18:51 +0000

sorry – just remembered the perfect poem for you…

“woodsman, spare that tree! touch not a single bough”

By: Kathy in the Wallowas

Kathy in the Wallowas — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:17:19 +0000

I heard a rumor Mandy should be back any minute now, so I came back to lurk in the garden like a deer or rabbit after the rampions (see, even in the Wild West we know the fairy tales).

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hare… er… hair. Never mind.

Just back from watching the bucking horses run down the main drag of town to the rodeo grounds. We have 455 cowboys in town for the week. Saturday all the rodeo queens from the beginning of time ride down the main drag in the parade. I wrote two poems about it but one of them is banned in Boston or at least Wallowa County. Meanwhile, sure looking forward to another tale of Home on the Allotment.

Love Kathy

PS… kindly post a seditious poem on the tree stump. It will make them wild.

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:12:24 +0000

Computer on blink – hence two comments – Sorry !!
OR – is it an operator problem – hum ……..

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:14:59 +0000

How did you know when you started this blog that it would be so exciting? I love the photos – the green is very refreshing and they suit the story beautifully, with a beginning and an end.

Well, whats next?

Love from Diane

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:24:45 +0000

I SO ( sorry is that shouting ?? )know that feeling of not doing it ” the allotment way ” but it’s amazing how they change when they realise you are watching over THEIR plots day & night ‘cos we lived right next to them – funny that ……
Glad you escaped their wrath – grow something edible up the stump to show your creativity !! & just annoy the council for fun.
Keep on enjoying.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:37:46 +0000

Good suggestions: radio, bird tables, chess boards – it’s all being taken on board. And thanks Josie for flagging up the inevitable allotment paranoia – oh yes. Jilly, please do send to your Mum. Only one thing left to say: airbrushing, moi?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Mandy,

Just love your father. And what a sweet relationship you two have.

Hilarious and touching blog. Love the notion that there’s an allotment world and a regular world. Please do put the sign on the other tree, if only for a day.

By: Julia Deakin

Julia Deakin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:10:34 +0000

Read and inwardly digested – thanks! Frustrating to get chastising letters from officialdom when for once you’re on their side. I’ve just had a speeding fine for one of a series of cameras I helped campaign for. There are now 18 on the 5-mile return journey to Huddersfield – which makes driving to town feel (I imagine) like going on the Weakest Link.
Our spuds are in very pretty purple flower. Someone says you can also eat them.

By: Jill Hirst

Jill Hirst — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:53:16 +0000

Getting worried now….finding myself awakening to the thought;’Wonder if Mand has an update today’. Always did want to meet your Pa,and this is a wonderful way of introduction.

Any objections to me printing off to send for my Mum? Think she’d chuckle as much as i.Keep it coming gal!
Jill
xxx