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The Garden Monkey

The Garden Monkey

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Humour, Rudeness and Funky Gardeny Suff

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  • Garden Monkey\'s Guide on taking care of Poinsettias.

    Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 15:42 in christmas, plant selection

    One from the archives:With Christmas bearing down upon us, lots of people will be buying Poinsettias, so here's a little tip on the best way to treat them.Find them a nice shady spot and place the plant there without delay.I find that a dustbin is id...

  • We Will Remember Them

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 15:45

    So much about today is moving.This story mentions "the wastage of Loos", just a line in a story, but one of my family members was amongst that wastage. We have just a blurry photo of him. No known grave. No children. No legacy.He was killed, along wi...

  • Garden Monkey\'s Guide to the Idiot Box and Radio Ga Ga

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 15:06 in Radio, quotes, tools, idiot box

    A couple of things made me smile recently.Firstly, on Friday's Corrie uptight shopkeeper Norris wanted a tool to get the weeds from between some paving. Of course you and I know that such things are called patio weeders or weed knives. The street's r...

  • Garden Monkey\'s Guide to the Idiot Box

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 03:16 in idiot box, idle speculation

    King of Concrete, Diarmuid Gavin is appearing on Market Kitchen tomorrow (7pm on Sky 249 & Virgin 260).Apparently he is talking about worms.Presumably as it is a cookery programme we can expect Lumbricus terrestris Pad Thai....

  • Garden Monkey's Guide to Foraging

    Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 16:23 in foraging

    I've been reading and hearing so much about this foraging malarkey that I thought I'd give it a go and headed off, bright and early, to my local park in search of wild food. I did think about going out to the country, but I thought it better to a) st...

  • Garden Monkey's Guide to Poetry

    Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 04:03 in poetry

    As any of you who've visited Martyn Cox's blog will know, today is National Poetry Day.There is a theme of Heroes and Heroines.This poem, which I did post way back on the old AOL blog, is by a very flawed hero of mine Spike Milligan and is one of my ...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

IanBrown

5 stars Inishindie

carry on blogging......

"Whether you tend a garden or not, you are the gardener of your own being,
the seed of your destiny."
- The Findhorn Community

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