it turns out gardening isn't a crock of crap after all

[Paul the 6th]

Well we spent 7 hours last week trimming back the wilderness of our garden, and I was swearing for about 6 & half hours, that gardening was for sad people with nothing interesting going on in their lives...

The outlaws* have just gone home having stayed since Thursday night. Me, vic & her dad spent pretty much all weekend, shaping the garden, mowing lawns, laying a freestyle patio ontop of pebbles, planting plants/bulbs, I even cut down a tree with an axe!

The little solar powered garden lamps are glowing quietly around the edge of the newly laid flower beds, the birds have just stopped singing, and me... I'm sat on the new patio with a bottle of port.

Life is good

(all credit to davepreston for the outlaws gag, I can only hope to be as funny as he is... Hang on a minute, there he is trying to set my bike alarm off!)

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

(all credit to davepreston for the outlaws gag, I can only hope to be as funny as he is... Hang on a minute, there he is trying to set my bike alarm off!)

Lol is probably true

[squirrel_hunter]

Which reminds me, I need to trim my bush.

i was of the same thinking as you paul until i got my house with its little garden project for me. dont know bout you but gave me a real sence of acheivement when i cut hedge back so i could see over it.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Mrs_giggles

i was of the same thinking as you paul until i got my house with its little garden project for me. dont know bout you but gave me a real sence of acheivement when i cut hedge back so i could see over it.

You wanna get dp in on the act! He'll love it! (runs and hides)

Seriously though, £60 on natural coloured Derbyshire patio flags and about 2 hours from start to finish has given me somewhere to :
A) hide from the missus
B) get drunk

Two birds, one housebrick.. Get in there where is the man of the moment tonight anywho?

Gardening is for poofters & women folks.

Try dismantling (with assorted tools as well as shotgun cartridges) 3 sheds, turning the wooden ones into woodchip, taking the metal one to the skip. Then building a pre-fab wooden shed, and custom desiging your own bike workshop.

NB, My workshop is going so that I'm within reach of the kitchen window, so women folks can still do their job without unneccesary movement & pass the brews out the window.

*runs.*

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Baph

Gardening is for poofters & women folks.

Try dismantling (with assorted tools as well as shotgun cartridges) 3 sheds, turning the wooden ones into woodchip, taking the metal one to the skip. Then building a pre-fab wooden shed, and custom desiging your own bike workshop.

NB, My workshop is going so that I'm within reach of the kitchen window, so women folks can still do their job without unneccesary movement & pass the brews out the window.

*runs.*

You've obviously never chopped a tree down with an axe I've cycled 18km in 40mins once, I've worked several 20 hour days and even driven 1100 miles from austria to heckmondwike in 16 hours non stop... But all of those added together and multiplied by a million, still wouldn't be as knackering as chopping down a tree with an axe. I am now a fully grown man... With a delightful garden and beautiful pagonias mwahaha

• dave p at work(he does occasionally sit and look like he is doing something) he has gon quiet so is actually proberbly having to do something,i know its hard to imagine, runs and hides hehehe
  

Yes, I've chopped a couple of trees down with an axe in the past.

Never again though, chainsaws are a wonderful invention.

[northwind]

Gardening's boring unless you can really get stuck in, my mum and dad are trying to enlist help to completely destroy, level and landscape their garden this summer and that's a project worth getting into, but don't ask me to weed a flower bed or cut a hedge, what's the point?