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I was young and foolish then, I’m old and foolish now

18 April, 2009
Posted in: Family

Many years ago, a colleague said to me, “women’s lives have three phases: horses, hormones and horticulture”. I laughed but I never thought that I would be interested in gardening. Well, my time has come. We have a small triangle of garden and I have been very busy cutting back foliage and depositing it in a mini-skip. What I didn’t at all anticipate was how much satisfaction it would give me. The children are a bit mournful about the radical tree elimination programme and the Princess said to me, “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees” but I am just blithely going on with my Thneed creation programme. I can see grass in patches now.

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  1. town mouse says

    19 April, 2009 at 08:57

    There’s nothing left now but knitting…

  2. BroLo says

    19 April, 2009 at 09:35

    Take it from me, it’s great therapy. Save something that you can whack on particularly frustrating days!

  3. Dot says

    22 April, 2009 at 09:42

    I was trying to think of an equivalent progress for those of us who were dancy rather than horsy – ballet, babies, bridge?

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