On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:24:24 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

~The message
~from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:
~
~ Quite, so where does it leave allotment people like us, that carry a large
~ knife in our vehicle? Some say if you have reason to have it it's OK but
~ I've heard of a Thames Waterman that got badly beaten and arrested for
~ carrying a knife, and that's a tool of his trade, he only got off after his
~ union got involved.
~ We haven't got a union.
~
~Isn't there an allotments' society of some sort. I'm pretty sure there is.
~

www.nsalg.org.uk but they don't seem to do much outside of the legal
side of keeping plots. Even their website's links to FAQs and what to
do when are just the RHS and BBC websites.

I have a stainless swiss army gardening knife I got a couple of years
ago for the allotment and it's got both a convex and a concave blade
together with a budding knife. It's one of the most useful tools I've
got, having gone through several inferior gardening knives, and in
fact Victorinox only deserve one huge slap on the wrist for the design
as they left off a hoop for securing it to a chain so it's easy to
drop and lose... so far so good, though.

But then anyone who stops me for having it will have had to search
through my trug of hand tools and (if it's on the way back home) a
pile of veg, so should be under no illusions as to why it's there :-)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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