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Garden Gnome - Freddie Dawkins (18th Mar 2004 - 09:49:14) While the anoraks are having fun playing with their laptops on the lawn, let's start swapping some gardening stuff. I'll have spare tomato, beetroot and celeriac plants in a few weeks time - anyone got something exotic they'd like to swop? All my plants are grown from organic seed - most of which I've gathered from the garden from last year's bumper crops. Happy Gardening! Freddie

Re: Garden Gnome - Mike Grimes (18th Mar 2004 - 23:37:10) Err, I've got a redundant ADSL Modem if you are interested.

Re: Garden Gnome - Freddie Dawkins (19th Mar 2004 - 00:37:15) ASDL modem - exotic? I think not!! I've got a box full of them sitting in the loft Nice one, Mike. How about some really, really, seriously hot chilli pepper seedlings? Freddie

Re: Garden Gnome - Alex Cameron (19th Mar 2004 - 14:19:14) *lmao* My alcatel ADSL modem looks like a garden accessory actually. Its one of those green 'frog' ones from way back. Lets turn up the heat in this thread - Free, hot, steaming subscription access to a live webcam of my dad's vegetable patch for the first garden guy to post a picture of one of their garden gnomes in an amusingly puerile pose?

Re: Garden Gnome - Mike Grimes (20th Mar 2004 - 22:39:03) Alex, 'Green Frog Like Thing?' Try kissing it, does it turn into a princess? I think not. BT nicknamed it 'Stingray' because it looked like a ... oh never mind. Either way it means Freddie needs a pond in his garden - but will it be a fresh or saltwater one? Mike. P.S. Keep this thread going and see just how surreal it gets!

Re: Garden Gnome - Freddie Dawkins (21st Mar 2004 - 13:00:13) Does anyone remember the military-issue, steel case, original Hayes modems? I still have mine somewhere in the loft. Ah, those were the days 300bps....acoustic couplers...young lads kicking an inflated bladder around in the streets...Dixie Dean...Stanley Matthews....hello, I'm really Jimmy Hill!! Freddie (Two Ponds) Gnome ps. Anyone want a carrier bag of fresh watercress?....totally organic pps. Thought I might set up a stall on the verge outside with a little tinbox for money...trouble is, local pikies would probably nick everything.

Re: Garden Gnome - Alex Cameron (22nd Mar 2004 - 16:51:41) Maybe not a princess, but a year's free subscription and no outages would be nice :) How do you build a pond anyway? I made one when i was about 6 years old, but it wasn't particularly good. Well when i say 'pond', i mean it in the most liberal terms - 'muddy hole in the ground with some water in' would be a more accurate description. Would you have to have fish from the sea for a saltwater pond? You could make your own cod and chips eh? Freddie - don't know what the black market is like for fresh organic water cress these days, but i'm not sure our local pikies are cultured enough to know what is is the first place (known in IT i believe as 'security through obscurity'). Did they have electricity back in those days? Thought it was just miner's lamps and coal...

Re: Garden Gnome - Freddie Dawkins (22nd Mar 2004 - 18:37:41) Coal! You must be joking. We were lucky to have the dust from coal. ;-(

Re: Coal Dust - Mike Grimes (22nd Mar 2004 - 23:50:43) DUST! You were lucky ...

Re: Garden Gnome - Tracey H (31st Mar 2004 - 22:03:49) The place to go for FREE organic watercress, is none other than the ponds at Radford Park. Discovered it when fishing for water snails with the kids last summer - it tastes delicious in salads, and we even fed it to our poor unsuspecting house guests without any ill effects Oh - yes - it does need to be washed before use...... The snails didn't taste too good though.

Re: Garden Gnome - Mike Grimes (31st Mar 2004 - 23:29:32) Which snails actually taste good? I thought they were only an excuse to eat loads of garlic. Watercress though, probably one of the the most under-rated salad leaves these days - brill. in soups also (but not Liphook snail soup). Gone fishing.

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