Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!

[Maggi Young]

I'm pretty sure your hedges will green up again , Angela. That has been a massive job for you- knowing how many hedges you've got!
Poor Derek couldn't help, he's got a bad back, bless him! Mind you, after all that work, your back is probably just as bad! 
You've done a grand job there!

[angie]

I'm pretty sure your hedges will green up again , Angela. That has been a massive job for you- knowing how many hedges you've got!
Poor Derek couldn't help, he's got a bad back, bless him! Mind you, after all that work, your back is probably just as bad! 
You've done a grand job there!

Maggi thats nice of you but I think Derek's handicap isn't his back. GOLF days never seem to be affected by bad backs 

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

Now you mention it, I have noticed from Bill McG.  and my pal's husband Mike, that it never seems to rain on a golf course either! Something a bit suspicious going on here, I think you're right!

[angie]

Golf, no i won't say anymore. Yesterday I dug out a huge Rhododendron and Derek came out with a cuppa and said I don't think its in the right place. My look must have been enough as he scurried back into the house. I think I might have to move it as I can't find my  secateurs . I think I have buried them under the Rhodo. I wander how many people either bury the secateurs or throw them in the compost heap and never to be found again.

Angie 

[Steve Garvie]

..........I wonder how many people either bury the secateurs or throw them in the compost heap never to be found again.

Angie 

Ehhh .......that would be me! 

[Maggi Young]

Ehhh .......that would be me! 

Yes, us two too! I would be VERY suspicious of anyone who claimed never to have lost a garden tool.  Trowels and secateurs particularly seem to be prone to disappearing - like single socks in the wash......

[Peter Maguire]

I have a right hand heavy duty gardening glove (green and yellow) looking for a good home and a left hand glove. I'm sure that the left hand one is in the garden.....somewhere.

Alternatively, I could put it in the 'odd sock' drawer in the hope I'll eventually find the other one - yes, we have a drawer of odd socks. I live in hope......

[Maggi Young]

Luckily, as those who know Ian will be aware, the question of odd socks here is less worrying than it might be in other households!  And mine are all black! I still find it annoying to have an odd number after washing though.

[Anthony Darby]

At my age I find there are three things that go. Number one is memory and I can't remember the other two.

[Jupiter]

I found a nice garden trowel burried in my garden and a lovely brass watering nozzel. Must have been and old lady like you people living here before... 

[Darren]

Yes, us two too! I would be VERY suspicious of anyone who claimed never to have lost a garden tool.  Trowels and secateurs particularly seem to be prone to disappearing - like single socks in the wash......

I've at least 6 pairs of tweezers somewhere in the greenhouse (I use them for weeding in pots, tidying up plants, pulling dead flowers off massonia etc, even transferring stamens for pollination). Can I ever find a pair when I want them?  I've a terrible habit of putting them down on top of pots or (worse) sticking them point-down into the plunge sand when I get distracted and go off to do something else.. 

[David Nicholson]

I used to keep an old bread knife in the garage for sawing through clumps I wanted to split, I guess it's somewhere in the garden. Maureen won't let me borrow hers!

[SusanS]

I've at least 6 pairs of tweezers somewhere in the greenhouse (I use them for weeding in pots, tidying up plants, pulling dead flowers off massonia etc, even transferring stamens for pollination). Can I ever find a pair when I want them?  I've a terrible habit of putting them down on top of pots or (worse) sticking them point-down into the plunge sand when I get distracted and go off to do something else..

They have run away the scissors Dear   

[annew]

I'm a constant offender by losing just about every tool I use. I often blame the fairies 
Regrettably, my Felco secateurs went via the compost heap into the shredder and ruined both!

[johnw]

I'm a constant offender by losing just about every tool I use. I often blame the fairies 
Regrettably, my Felco secateurs went via the compost heap into the shredder and ruined both!

Ann:  In winter Canadian mothers sew strings to kiddie's mittens and attach them to their coat cuffs.  Might that work for you & your secateurs & trowels?

johnw