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On 7/1/08 17:32, in article ,
"Charlie Pridham" wrote:

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if they paid me (and they used to do just that!!) not enough plants and
too much sea, thats why we live in a cold bit of cornwall, its as far
from the sea as I could get!

Too much sea?! You heathen! ;-) My parents sent me to school in deepest
Worcestershire and it took me ages to figure out why I felt so disorientated
to begin with. If they'd sat down for a fortnight and figured out how far
they could get me from the sea, they couldn't have done much better. I feel
at my happiest and best when I can see the sea right in front of me or all
around me. I'm a bit puzzled as to your reasons for choosing your past
career, Charlie!


Well I did love it at the time but after 6 months on a ship that spent a
total 9 days in port it starts to wear a bit thin, especially as I was
always planning the gardening during the wee small hours, I suspect the
public would like to think our minds were more on the job going down the
channel at 20 knots!
But the real reason for giving up was it got harder and harder to say
good by to the children (allthough by the time they were teenagers I
rather think they would have signed me on themselves)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea