Reply to: If women want a nice garden...

[minestrone]

Standards are dropping.

We should really stop the churchill jokes.

[MarillionFan]

I think a quim joke has been made twice.

Standards are dropping.

[shaunbhoy]

I have hired a man to sort my garden out.

Ooooer missus! Does he have green fingers? Fnarr fnarr!!

[minestrone]

Not a single double entendre about strimming your wifes bush, what to do with a water butt or mentioning that EO is an uphill gardener.

Standards are dropping.

I think a quim joke has been made twice.

[MarillionFan]

Not a single double entendre about strimming your wifes bush, what to do with a water butt or mentioning that EO is an uphill gardener.

Standards are dropping.

[Cliphead]

wow. thats impressive

It's a nice place to be considering I have to live and work in the same place. Keeps the head together.

[MaryPoppins]

I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate gardening. I have hired a man to sort my garden out.

[wim121]

DIY/decorating/gardening/paperwork/taking stuff to the dump - men's jobs
Cooking/washing/ironing/shopping - women's jobs

As a REAL MAN, quite happy with the split me.

Unfortunately the only job/duty I dont do is dish washing .... Sounds like you have a good balance .. Quite envious ...

[EternalOptimist]

This time of year the gardener is here three days a week there's so much to keep on top of. The painters doing the outside of the house will be here for about a week. The bridges over the stream require maintenance yearly and that's scheduled for next week.

The upside of all this is a beautiful place to sit out of an evening and just bask in the views or have a barbecue in the dedicated area, or retire to the pagoda for some solitude and listen to the water running downstream. Oh, and the orchard for apples and pears at the appropriate time of year. The bonfire and firework party in the winter or spending some time with the telescope in the obervatory.

wow. thats impressive

[Cliphead]

This time of year the gardener is here three days a week there's so much to keep on top of. The painters doing the outside of the house will be here for about a week. The bridges over the stream require maintenance yearly and that's scheduled for next week.

The upside of all this is a beautiful place to sit out of an evening and just bask in the views or have a barbecue in the dedicated area, or retire to the pagoda for some solitude and listen to the water running downstream. Oh, and the orchard for apples and pears at the appropriate time of year. The bonfire and firework party in the winter or spending some time with the telescope in the obervatory.

[Ruprect]

[minestrone]

DIY/decorating/gardening/paperwork/taking stuff to the dump - men's jobs
Cooking/washing/ironing/shopping - women's jobs

As a REAL MAN, quite happy with the split me.

Cooking, washing and ironing? Not a chance in hell in this house.

Shopping? now she seems to have a gift for that.

[xoggoth]

DIY/decorating/gardening/paperwork/taking stuff to the dump - men's jobs
Cooking/washing/ironing/shopping - women's jobs

As a REAL MAN, quite happy with the split me.

[minestrone]

Why don't you pay for a gardener? Unless you live in Blenheim Palace etc. I can't see it costing you much.
You could sell it to the missus on the 'getting an expert plantsman in' angle.

I am Scottish. Bet you all wish Gordon was a frugal as me.

Actualy I am not frugal at all but 10 hours gardening is forgotten when the "I had to pick your trainers up, they were at the front door again!!" womeny type rants start.

[Zippy]

Darn, there is me thinking this was going to be a good thread on the finer aspects of lady gardens

I must admit that I thought Brazilian horticulturalists would feature more heavily.