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Monkey Hanger, anything at all that grows through my endeavours is much appreciated, except those weeds which I am a dab hand at producing. My husband was a good gardener both with vegetables and flowers. However, a miniature rose bush that he planted some years ago took off and is now much taller than me! No-one believes me when I tell them what it is, and it never flowers to prove I am telling the truth.

Here’s something for you to think about. My husband had a Happy Plant that was healthy and needed little maintenance. A couple of days after my husband passed away the Happy Plant died – just like that.
 
Taddy, we had a ferret at one time. She (Sally) lived with us for about 6 months. We used to bring her out of her cage and let her run around the lounge-room. Not exactly the most loveable of animals but quite cute. However, we decided she must be lonely and so gave her to a man who had a sort of ferret farm where she could have her pick of boyfriends. Hope that made her happy.
 
dotti34 said:
Taddy, we had a ferret at one time. She (Sally) lived with us for about 6 months. We used to bring her out of her cage and let her run around the lounge-room. Not exactly the most loveable of animals but quite cute.
Depends what you class as "CUTE", Freya, the little Polecat Jill loves nothing better than to curl up on my shoulder and fall asleep whilst I am watching T.V. it causes a little friction sometimes if we have folk visiting but then again if they don't like it I tell them that they are free to leave at any time.:D:D
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taddy said:
Depends what you class as "CUTE", Freya, the little Polecat Jill loves nothing better than to curl up on my shoulder and fall asleep whilst I am watching T.V. it causes a little friction sometimes
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Love me, love my Fretling! I suppose you've got a flat cap & a whippet somewhere too? :D
 
DaveinGermany said:
Love me, love my Fretling! I suppose you've got a flat cap & a whippet somewhere too?

Never owned a whippet Dave but I did used to make my own purse nets and gate nets and spent many hours on the fells around Clitheroe with my little Jack Russel, twelve bore shotgun and ferrets during winter time, Me and Mrs taddy fed our two oldest youngsters on rabbit pies, Hare stews and the like. Nowadays I struggle to kill anything, flies and bluebottles being the only things I now class as fair game whilst armed with just a fly swotter. Never owned a flatcap but was renowned for always wearing a Deerstalker.
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taddy said:
Jack Russel, twelve bore shotgun and ferrets during winter time, Me and Mrs taddy fed our two oldest youngsters on rabbit pies, Hare stews and the like.
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Did the 12 bore & 410 when younger (13-14ish we started), Dad would take my younger brother & me out over the local farms, we'd take down what we needed & a couple for the farmer, if I'd had a loaded finger I think we'd probably have had more. :)



You can add pheasant, partridge & pigeon to that list of yours, only problem being, tasty as the game pie was, you had to bite very carefully or some dental work would be due for the incautious.
 
taddy said:
Just to tease you a bit more, I forgot to mention that I also Have a bed of mint that I harvest and hang in my garage untill completly dry then strip the leaves off and put them in a chopper upperer and bottle/jar them so I can spinkle them on boiled/mashed tatties. Mrs Taddy can't stand the taste of mint though, (neer mind, more for me).
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taddy if your wonderful allotment is not taxing you enough ... my garden has been totally ignored this year .. the only thing that has been done is ive mowed it .. due to not being able to .. if you want to do some weeding ... :D
 
Thanks for the invite Shillelagh but I will have to pass on that one as I am still busy with my own allotment, earlier this week I picked four pounds of damsons, my first crop from a tree I planted as a two year old five years ago, Mrs Taddy has turned them into Damson jam along with the Blackcurrant and Strawberry jams that she made earlier in the year. (yes I am getting spoiled) but I love it.
 
DaveinGermany said:
Can't get better than homemade jams & preserves, you're a lucky fella seeing as your Missus still does traditional things.

I am with you 100% on that Dave, she has been looking after me for the last 68 years (we have been married for 64 of them); we were as they say "childhood sweethearts", Hazel was 14 and I was 16 when we met in 1963.
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taddy said:
DaveinGermany said:
Can't get better than homemade jams & preserves, you're a lucky fella seeing as your Missus still does traditional things.

I am with you 100% on that Dave, she has been looking after me for the last 68 years (we have been married for 64 of them); we were as they say "childhood sweethearts", Hazel was 14 and I was 16 when we met in 1963.
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well do yeh think it will last then taddy?:D
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taddy said:
DaveinGermany said:
Can't get better than homemade jams & preserves, you're a lucky fella seeing as your Missus still does traditional things.

I am with you 100% on that Dave, she has been looking after me for the last 68 years (we have been married for 64 of them); we were as they say "childhood sweethearts", Hazel was 14 and I was 16 when we met in 1963.
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Are you sure about those dates Taddy?
I am only asking because we were in the same year at school.....so you must be 74.....or maybe 75.....so those numbers do not quite add up.
A week tomorrow we will have been married for 55 years....married 1966.
I am pretty sure that you did not get married when you were 11(or 12).
But, that apart...you picked yourself a gem there Taddy.
I think our generation still do the making and baking....I know that I do....but I don’t make jam, but I make a mean cheese scone....a fin3 roast beef dinner with home made Yorkshire pud....none of that frozen stuff.
We were taught to cook and never got out of the habit.
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You are Quite right Marge, my post should have read been together for 58 years and married for 54 of them,I must either have had a "Senior moment" or one hobgoblin over the odds thank you for spotting the error, Ishall have to start drinking less ale and more tea.
or then again maybe not. like you said you were taught young and properly.
 
taddy said:
You are Quite right Marge, my post should have read been together for 58 years and married for 54 of them,I must either have had a "Senior moment" or one hobgoblin over the odds thank you for spotting the error, Ishall have to start drinking less ale and more tea.
or then again maybe not. like you said you were taught young and properly.
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not sure if its respect or jealousy i have for you lot with one good long marriage. For one who has spent a few times in divorce courts with the financial costs it gave me i suppose its a bit of both. if only life was like a cricket test match where you have 2 innings it would be better. anyway with my luck rain would wipe the game out after the first day.
 
Taddy, I think it might have been a combination of both senior moment and hobgoblin, I only spotted it because I knew we are about the same age in what it says on our birth certificates.
Personally I refuse to believe that lying document.
My heart is only 14...or 16 on a bad day(but even bad days are good at this time of life).
MH.....it is not really about luck.
It is like owning a lovely house.
To keep it lovely you have to put in the maintenance work...and I have to say that even the most beautiful rose has a thorn.....there are times when I would swap my other half for an empty pop bottle....and I am sure that I irritate the bejasus out of him....but it’s being able to live with those moments....and not let them take the shine off the rest of it.

I have to say that if he were to lift a finger to me..or if he was dallying with someone else then I would leave so fast he would smell the singe.
 
I have to say that if he were to lift a finger to me..or if he was dallying with someone else then I would leave so fast he would smell the singe.

It is not a mans finger that you have to worry about Marge that is only about three inches long, it is the other male appendage that is usually twice that length that causes the most bother between spouses.;);)
 
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