[rustyme]

bet you can't guess what I did today ?............eh what ? oh you can ! ...yes thats right I was digging again . I think I am going to have to see someone about this now ? Things are out of control, and I have to admit,  I have a problem.    I just can't stop .....Can someone help me please ? I can't cope with this addiction anymore..... I thought of burning my spade and fork , but I just couldn't bring myself to do it to my friends.  They have been so loyal and faithfull over the years !! They have stood strong next to me through all my troubles and woes . How could I betray them in such a way ? Well , as I said I couldn't do it . They are made of metal , mostly , anyway    what a pillock !!!   I only did a few feet anyway , as it started to rain .
 
    I did start to mark out the grain plot though  ,and I may start the comfrey bed extension Monday . ..Day off tomorrow going to my nephews for the afternoon, after feeding the horses.....might do just a tiny bit of digging before I go though ...hehehe

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Oh no russ is high on 'digging' don't think i'll every get to that stage
lol

Not been doing anything today neighbour were being pain's in the @rse this morning at 3.00 but i have started on a new pair of socks for s-dd birthday in august their only ankle sock so should be done quickly, just hope she doesn't  cotton on that they are for here lol


Linz

[Guy]

Well Russ - i do sincerely hope your day off has done you some good- you need to get away from it all we were off this weekend also and saw my pops in milton keynes - hate driving and it took 3.5 hours - still i managed to find a corner of his garden to stand in for 5 mins and convinced him to dig some raised beds - cut back some trees with him (well with a saw actually!!) cleaned his pond filter and we did some first aid on 3 of his koy carp (his little hobby!!!) this involved netting them, anaethetising them ,cleaning the infection , putting on iodine etc and popping them back and ressucitating them!! nice relaxing break!!!!! great fun though - the kids were left in charge of the place here and surprisingly it was all in one piece on our return
linz - digging is addictive - never say never!!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

hehe

I like fish and want a pond here

* Fluffywelshsheep wonders off dreaming of 6 foot koi lol

[rustyme]

lol...yes Linz... I think there must be something in the air. Mind you .. you say you won't get that bad !!! just you wait till you start creeping the fence out another foot or so just to get some more veggie plot !!! Never have probs with neighbours round here thank god....3 am ? 
Oh I would have loved that .....I can just hear my request for quiet .... "I say old chaps , would you mind awfully, trying to keep the noise down a touch ? " hehehe ... well something like that anyway.    Good luck with the socks too...lucky they weren't elbow socks  !!!! they would have taked ages to do !!!
 
Cheer Guy ,  yes I think I need a stay in a special hotel with special rooms with special wall paper, very soft THICK padded wall paper !!!! Where all the staff wear white ...   I had a really nice afternoon , saw my nephew, niece,their little kids and my sister and another younger nephew. Had a lovely dinner and a really good laugh and chat . All in all a really good day , a very much needed break too..   Glad you had a good day as well . My auntie lives in MK and her son lives in Wick,Scotland , funny how close we can all be ! 
          The wind is getting much heavier here at the moment , just hope the big tree I am living under,stays up ok !!!! If you never hear from me again , you know it didn't !!!!

[pigsatlesrues]

If you really are that obsessive then come and visit me in Normandy! I would love a veggie plot but have no disire to dig! Ten minutes into it and my already bad back wont take any more. Alas I am to be ever destined to buy supermarket veg, which is so dull and very little to choose from which may surprise some of you, it did me. I assumed the French would be big on selection but they stock their own produce not very much imported other than sprouts and a few odd bits from Spain.

So my friend get your passport in order and be welcome. You can be assured of a good supply of PORK, a warm bed and over friendly pigglies to make you feel at home!

Kate

[Fluffywelshsheep]

do they allow spades/forks/culivators on plaines?

Linz

[pigsatlesrues]

No worries, I have all the equipment - all I need is a man that can!

Kate

Ooops - just read that back - well you know what I mean!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol

[rustyme]

 

[Francis Bacon]

Oh Rusty you do have it bad  I've been reading this thread for a while now & it keeps me amused    Digging is not my strong point & for month's have been gently persading the OH to by a rotavator & he always says 'NO'.  Then just the other day he says 'I think we should get a rotavator' as if it was his idea    (I don't mind though) 

[rustyme]

the wind and rain let off long enough to feed the horses , I even thought about doing just a tiny bit of digging  , but then thought "NO" It then went very windy and rainy for 30 minutes or so and now it is very calm and no rain .. Getting ready for the next wave no doubt. From what the weather people are saying it looks like a forget week here at the moment. Still, it will allow me to charge my batteries as it were !!!!   Not sure how the nerves will take this enforced NO DIG time .....
            However nice it would be to shoot over to Normandy to do some digging Kate , I am not so sure my horses and dogs would appreciate no food for the months it would take me to do it ....and then I would have to come back and dig mine all over again lol.... , and as I may have said before ? I hate digging !!!! ( oh god...no digging for 2 days now....not sure I can stand this much longer....) eh what ? who said that ?
         Digging is by no means my strong point either FB , I even thought of getting a rotavator , but then remembered the one I used to have, and thought better of it !!! I don't have anything against them , it's just I am trying to get away from mechanical dependance as much as I can , ( mind you , I am trying to set up a big sawbench run by a waterwheel in the river !!! even I don't fancy the idea of cutting trees into planks by hand ,I have done it , and it is a killer !!) ,mechanical power makes life easier but also costs a fortune , something I don't have. So, I am destined to do things the old way ... by hand ( apart from cutting planks) as long as I take it steady I get there in the end.   

[Guy]

you know Russ , i know people who can support you and the little " voices of the fork" which visit you so frequently!! the only trouble is - you have to want the help for it to be effective i must say the water wheel idea sounds fabulous if you can get it to work - i just hope you dont run out of planks to make it before you can make any planks - i think!!!
well done FB glad all that gentle persuading has paid off  - - you should try the same for that estate in the bahamas next
what a great offer Kate - in fact we could all come over and dig a little bit - then move to the next holding and dig there etc. etc. until it was all done!!-mind you with all the pork / home grown produce and wine we would all end up consuming , we would be in no fit state to do anything in the end
linz - i believe you can take rotavators onto planes , as long as you have ordered the in -flight meal

[rustyme]

cheers Guy,
               but I think we will be ok thanks.... We can cope with all our problems ok now  ! We do have nearly 6 acres to dig , so we should keep busy for a few weeks to come ?
    The waterwheel problem is exactly as you said , no planks to make the wheel to power the saw to cut the planks ? oh god ...thats just done me ed in ...... back to digging .........
     Yes that would be a great idea !!! ALL go over and dig EVERYWHERE ....we could be like woofers....yes and we could all go dogging !!!! er... GOD  NO thats something completely different .....I need a cup of tea.....( think I really need a straight jacket ?) There coming To Take me away HA HA  !!!       http://youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4    
 
 This is nice . They have given me my own room here !!!The walls are so soft!!! They say that if I behave, I may be allowed to go and dig the flower beds !!!! I don't know what they have done with my friends though ? ( they don't know but I have already worked out how I can escape!!!! he he he )

[rustyme]

I doubt there will be any digging today. The wind keeps on popping up every now and then , and we are getting medium/heavy showers  as well . The very heavy rain has turned everywhere into the Somme now, yesterday it was even difficult to walk across the fields, (the top field and hay field are sloping), without almost sliding arm over elbow! Although it won't do me any harm having a break , it does get boring ,stuck indoors most of the time.