On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:09:04 +0100, Martin wrote:

~On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:52:13 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:
~
~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.
~
~I can't find this on the web. Is it sold as gardening knife?

I got it from a stall at Chelsea in 03.

~It seems like it would make a good Christmas present.
yes, but they seem to have, as you noticed, discontinued it in favour
of three separate knives.

That's torn it. I'll probably lose it now it's irreplaceable :-(

Nope! Found it!!!! See the second from bottom (and hope they still
have some) code AK39116

http://www.walshbrothers.co.uk/Updat..._penknives.htm


--
jane

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