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Message 1.Â
Posted by Mycowaz (U14848091) on Thursday, 26th May 2011
I was at Chelsea last week part of a team building one of the show gardens, as I walked around the site looking at all the other gardens, it struck me how modern the plant choice was this year. There was very little of the old school favourites such as roses, lillies, carnations, and sweet peas....I have to say it was a refreshing change....out with the old in with the new!!
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Message 2
Posted by GrumpyGardener (U14757801) on Friday, 27th May 2011
Rubbish! We like the old lol
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Message 3
Posted by Derek Pig (U14833635) on Sunday, 29th May 2011
i have to agree with zameaceae- i have no interest in chelsea at all ( i even suppoterd manutd in th recent champions league semi final, as i decided i'd rather see man u lose to the Catalan Heroes than Chelski) but if there is a move away from the old fuddy duddy plants then i'm all for it.
on saturday i was doing as tree job for the poshest woman in the poshest part of the city. i had to leave for a while at lunchtime. i didn't get any lunch but i had another thing to do, not work related but personal. i got back and the rich heed-tha-baw was at the gate in a feathered hat and a ridiculopus dress. she was off to a wedding and she'd come ouyt for a fight.
i knew i couldn't hold my tongue as she launched into one of those rants that only very very sheltered very very posh vwerery very stupid people can, about howe she'd paid for a days work and i hadn't done it, how wehen she paid for a days work she expected a days work, how she never got 90 minutes for her lunch (I ghhadn't eaten and she doesn't work weekends the snob) etc etc. she hadn't paid for my day, she'd paid for the tree, she'd talked £20 off it the tight so-and-so, and he spoiled soft lad son had a £19K car.
prior to this, i'd had to listen to her mispronouncing plants she'd heard from Chelsea coverage on bbc. this was brilliant. i'm so pleased there is a move away fro swet peas partly because such things only belong in simple genetics text books and secondle because its brilliant froma gardeners [point of view to hear people struiggling with the new names.
idiots
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Message 4
Posted by Mycowaz (U14848091) on Monday, 30th May 2011
If its any consolation Joey, I have worked for my fair share of posh idiots....(all nouvea riche... inherited money, most of them haven't got the intelligence or gumption to make money for themselves) ....anyway, these are the kind of half wits that potter around Chelea pretending they know a sweet psea from a sweet william, and give the show a bad name.
You should have felled the tree onto the sons posh car and legged it!
p.s. glad Barcelona won
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Message 5
Posted by Ariadne Knickerbocker (U4534559) on Monday, 30th May 2011
Ha ha! What a lovely image Joey "a ridculopus" dress. It sounds like something overdressy, frou-frou frilly and octopus like.
I once stayed with some very posh people (who I had never met before) as my then boyfriend was best man at their son's wedding. They were horribly snooty and condescending. IN the morning they said I could make myself a cup of tea but to save the teabag for the gardener. I said "Oh what - you mean for the compost". No - they meant save it for the gardener to re-use for his morning cup of tea!!! You wouldn't have thought people that posh would have T bags in the first place! -
Message 6
Posted by flowerchild (U14083640) on Monday, 30th May 2011
My family and me used to say that that's how they stay rich and posh.
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Message 7
Posted by Mycowaz (U14848091) on Monday, 30th May 2011
Hey.....Wanda I usually get about three cups from one tea bag....well you have to when your as poor as a church mouse, who's fallen on hard times.
Zam -
Message 8
Posted by Obelixx (U2157162) on Monday, 30th May 2011
Now I see where I'm going wrong with my housekeeping. Workmen here get coffee and cake or biscuits. They tend to refuse to come in the house though so when we had the hayloft converted into bedrooms, they had their own table and chairs in the garage with a coffee machine and a fresh home made cake every day.
Belgian builders, gardeners, electricians, plumbers and so on don't drink tea but coffee grounds are good for the compost and I never have trouble getting people to come back and finish a job or do another. They've all been happily trained about planting their ladders and/or big feet in my flower beds. -
Message 9
Posted by Mycowaz (U14848091) on Tuesday, 31st May 2011
coffee grounds also make an effective pesticide, due to the alkoloids in them. Some people use them as a mulch around house plants, I find it better mixing them into compost otherwise you get a bit of a cap on your compost.
I'll come and work for you any day Obs!! -
Message 10
Posted by the cycling gardener (U2350416) on Tuesday, 31st May 2011
on saturday i was doing as tree job for the poshest woman in the poshest part of the city. i had to leave for a while at lunchtime. i didn't get any lunch but i had another thing to do, not work related but personal. i got back and the rich heed-tha-baw was at the gate in a feathered hat and a ridiculopus dress. she was off to a wedding and she'd come ouyt for a fight.
i knew i couldn't hold my tongue as she launched into one of those rants that only very very sheltered very very posh vwerery very stupid people can, about howe she'd paid for a days work and i hadn't done it, how wehen she paid for a days work she expected a days work, how she never got 90 minutes for her lunch (I ghhadn't eaten and she doesn't work weekends the snob) etc etc. she hadn't paid for my day, she'd paid for the tree, she'd talked £20 off it the tight so-and-so, and he spoiled soft lad son had a £19K car.Â
Joey - I think communication is the key here. If you had advised her before you disappeared for a 90 minute break that you needed to do so and why she wouldn't have got so wound up about it. I agree, she sounds pretty unpleasant and her attitude leaves a lot to be desired but seeing it from the client's point of view she must have wondered if you'd just abandoned the job and left her in the lurch. If she is the sort of woman you describe, she will have a network and making a good impression does wonders for your professional reputation and business. -
Message 11
Posted by Derek Pig (U14833635) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
fair point cycling gardenr
i get that but i also think that a job is just a job and it is also important to live on your feet not your knees. I wish i had left all the brash all over her garden and gone, regardless of the reputation. i wouldn't want to work for any of her friends. I ahve a strict rukle about members of the rotary club- I won't work for them (well, put in very high quotes), freemasons are fine, at least they are openly sinister.
this just keeps me happy. i didn't become a gardenrer to become rich, luckily, or i'd have been very disappointed!
cheers
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