"Sacha" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

I'd love to hear more about building the lakes if you can find out
something.

:-)) I'm always amazed at the anchor person for Australia's best
gardening show. This bloke was born in Britain in 1927 and is so
fit
that he puts the young people on the show to shame. He's forever
digging beds with gay abandon and talking 90 to the dozen without
a
puff or wheeze and only looks about 60. He's been a Communist all
his
life and became a gardener because he kept getting sacked from
factories etc but figured out that the gentry needed gardeners. A
truly fascinating man and an inspirationt oa ging gardeners. He
has a
garden of over 10 acres plus does this show weekly..


Don't approve of the Communist bit. ;-)

It doesn't show and I'd never have guessed if I hadn't heard him talk
about it :-)) And he received a lot of bad treatment in the UK for
his beliefs, being sacked from factories etc till he figured out that
the toffs'd have him in their gardens.

He's very funy when he talks about it. He apparently became a commie
when very young in Britian. He says he used to go to meetings run by
an old man who spoke very slowly and without any colour in his voice
at all. This old bloke used to address the meetings and drone on
about the "raging Capitalist swine" etc. The anchorperson says that he
was astounded that someone using such intemperate language could be so
dull and boring whilst holding such strong views.

But he sounds just the sort of
person old Tom was. Often there's also an element of 'just get on
with it'
rather than moaning or complaining about life's smaller or larger
difficulties and I'm sure that has something to do with it. I had
an
elderly man helping me in the last garden I had and he seemed at
first to be
working very slowly and I found myself wondering if he'd ever get
half the
work finished on the one day a week that he came. I discovered
rapidly
that, having worked on the land all his life, he knew exactly how to
pace
himself and got twice or three times as much done as someone who
rushes
outside, tears into each new job and then has to go and have a nice
lie down
because they're exhausted!

:-)) Not many people seem to be good at pacing themselves these days.
I know I feel like I need a cup of tea and a good lie down after a
morning in the garden. I usually just go right back out right after
lunch again and potter being ineffective.