A friend has just read me an article from the Sunday Telegraph main
paper which says that Carol Klein has had to close her nursery, Glebe
Cottage Plants. It says she has had a row with the landlord over a
large pile of compost. I gather the land on which the nursery stands
is only rented tthough her house and garden are owned.

Pam in Bristol

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:16:17 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

A friend has just read me an article from the Sunday Telegraph main
paper which says that Carol Klein has had to close her nursery, Glebe
Cottage Plants. It says she has had a row with the landlord over a
large pile of compost. I gather the land on which the nursery stands
is only rented tthough her house and garden are owned.

It was in the Guradian a few days ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/au...ursery-closure

Seems a bit daft to me.
--
Paul C

Might be daft but look at the wonderful publicity :-))

ANY publicity is good publicity isn't it?

The only publicity which proved fatal, was that spoken by Ratner!!!

Look at the publicity I get, very anti is the speaker's eye, but so many
people, 'real people' know me that there is ALWAYS a flow of emails. Look at
the recent one with reference to my address and the photo of me with the
National Service (Royal Air Force) Association Ensign. Great for recruitment
to the Association. (That is the one where I was the President and people
were confused about RAFA, The Royal Air Forces Association!!!)

Henry Ford said, "Half of my advertising is a waste of money, the trouble is
I don't know which half" ..... FREE advertising and publicity is 100% no
waste!

I will of course be using it for publicity for Shanklin Theatre, but does
anybody know who the group are in this photo? Taken last night.
http://www.myalbum.com/Album=TOCZXXCA


Mike
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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:16:17 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

A friend has just read me an article from the Sunday Telegraph main
paper which says that Carol Klein has had to close her nursery, Glebe
Cottage Plants. It says she has had a row with the landlord over a
large pile of compost. I gather the land on which the nursery stands
is only rented tthough her house and garden are owned.

It was in the Guradian a few days ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/au...ursery-closure

Seems a bit daft to me.
--
Paul C


Might be daft but look at the wonderful publicity :-))

ANY publicity is good publicity isn't it?

The only publicity which proved fatal, was that spoken by Ratner!!!

Look at the publicity I get, very anti in the speaker's eye, but so many
people, 'real people' know me that there is ALWAYS a flow of emails. Look at
the recent one with reference to my address and the photo of me with the
National Service (Royal Air Force) Association Ensign. Great for recruitment
to the Association. (That is the one where I was the President and people
were confused about RAFA, The Royal Air Forces Association!!!)

Henry Ford said, "Half of my advertising is a waste of money, the trouble is
I don't know which half" ..... FREE advertising and publicity is 100% no
waste!

I will of course be using it for publicity for Shanklin Theatre, but does
anybody know who the group are in this photo? Taken last night.
http://www.myalbum.com/Album=TOCZXXCA


Mike


--

....................................

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

....................................

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 14:28:47 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-09-04 13:50:25 +0100, Paul Corfield said:

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:16:17 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

A friend has just read me an article from the Sunday Telegraph main
paper which says that Carol Klein has had to close her nursery, Glebe
Cottage Plants. It says she has had a row with the landlord over a
large pile of compost. I gather the land on which the nursery stands
is only rented tthough her house and garden are owned.

It was in the Guradian a few days ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/au...ursery-closure

Seems a bit daft to me.

There are two sides to it. He claims she's left the nursery area in a
messy state with a compost heap close to his door. She claims he gave
her notice only because she criticised publicly the way he'd
'butchered' trees when pruning them. He says she said that after he'd
given her notice etc. Apparently, he bought the land from its original
owner quite recently. I believe the plan is to re-organise the garden
to incorporate the nursery into it but as neither were very big, I
wonder if she'll have to acquire more land from somewhere.

I find it very sad.

I hope it turns out to be a storm in a tea cup and that they
eventually make up
--

Martin


That depends. You know how vicious some people can be, even when they are
wrong, no hope of an apology even !!!

I think her best bet is to grab the publicity, make the most of it, pick
herself up, dust herself off, and start all over again. It 'is' possible, I
did it when Maggie Thatcher almost succeeded in what Hitler tried to do,
ruin our country's manufacturing capabilities. I, along with lots of other
successful businesses went to the wall, but you use that experience and turn
it round :-))

Power to Carol

Mike

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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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"'Mike'" wrote in message
news

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:16:17 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

A friend has just read me an article from the Sunday Telegraph main
paper which says that Carol Klein has had to close her nursery, Glebe
Cottage Plants. It says she has had a row with the landlord over a
large pile of compost. I gather the land on which the nursery stands
is only rented tthough her house and garden are owned.

It was in the Guradian a few days ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/au...ursery-closure

Seems a bit daft to me.
--
Paul C


Might be daft but look at the wonderful publicity :-))

ANY publicity is good publicity isn't it?

The only publicity which proved fatal, was that spoken by Ratner!!!

Look at the publicity I get, very anti in the speaker's eye, but so many
people, 'real people' know me that there is ALWAYS a flow of emails. Look
at
the recent one with reference to my address and the photo of me with the
National Service (Royal Air Force) Association Ensign. Great for
recruitment
to the Association. (That is the one where I was the President and people
were confused about RAFA, The Royal Air Forces Association!!!)

Henry Ford said, "Half of my advertising is a waste of money, the trouble
is
I don't know which half" ..... FREE advertising and publicity is 100% no
waste!

I will of course be using it for publicity for Shanklin Theatre, but does
anybody know who the group are in this photo? Taken last night.
http://www.myalbum.com/Album=TOCZXXCA



No Christine, nothing to do with the Royal Navy, OR, the Royal Air Force
;-))

Guesses on here please ;-)

Mike


--

....................................

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

....................................

In article , Sacha
writes
Apparently, he bought the land from its original owner quite recently.


Why on earth didn't she?

I do know that if the compost was only 20 yards from my back door and
was a permanent feature when it 'could' have been nearer to her house
and it was above my courtyard so water seeped down then I might not be
so happy either.

However you never know with the media, what is truth and what is not!

If she shifted the compost over a weekend then i don't see why it
couldn't have been shifted before?
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Martin
writes
We thought that too!



Great gardening minds think alike
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2011-09-05 18:11:36 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:48:26 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-09-05 16:54:00 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:31:44 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

In article , Sacha

writes
Apparently, he bought the land from its original owner quite
recently.


Why on earth didn't she?

Exactly what we asked.

The average price for average land down here is about £5900 per acre.
Ray bought 3 acres of field from the Church Commission over 14 years
ago and it cost him £27,000 because it's good land and they don't sell
cheap. I think that may be the answer to that question. I don't know
how big the plot in question is but if it's less than an acre, she's
not going to make much of a nursery, size-wise. I know she had the
nursery but it was quite small and I don't think the Beeb is
over-generous with salaries to most people who aren't Mr Ross!

Don't you believe it. Griff Rees Jones gets £2.5 million/annum for his
holiday movies etc.

With respect to all who work on them, gardening programmes don't command
very high audiences or fees, afaik!

I don't think she is poor. If she'd had the chance, she should have bought
the land herself.
Tina

"'Mike'" wrote in message ...

Look at the publicity I get, very anti is the speaker's eye, but so many
people, 'real people' know me that there is ALWAYS a flow of emails.

The gist of these emails are "stop boasting and bragging about SFA"

Look at the recent one with reference to my address and the photo of me
with the National Service (Royal Air Force) Association Ensign. Great for
recruitment to the Association.

Snore zzzzzzzzzzzz

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-05 21:56:06 +0100, "Christina Websell"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-05 18:11:36 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:48:26 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-09-05 16:54:00 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:31:44 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

In article , Sacha

writes
Apparently, he bought the land from its original owner quite
recently.


Why on earth didn't she?

Exactly what we asked.

The average price for average land down here is about £5900 per acre.
Ray bought 3 acres of field from the Church Commission over 14 years
ago and it cost him £27,000 because it's good land and they don't sell
cheap. I think that may be the answer to that question. I don't know
how big the plot in question is but if it's less than an acre, she's
not going to make much of a nursery, size-wise. I know she had the
nursery but it was quite small and I don't think the Beeb is
over-generous with salaries to most people who aren't Mr Ross!

Don't you believe it. Griff Rees Jones gets £2.5 million/annum for his
holiday movies etc.

With respect to all who work on them, gardening programmes don't command
very high audiences or fees, afaik!

I don't think she is poor. If she'd had the chance, she should have
bought
the land herself.
Tina

There's no reason to suppose she's particularly well of or could have
afforded to buy it.
--
Sacha

Excuse me, but did you mean 'well off'?

Kindest regards

Mike


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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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In article , Sacha
writes
I know she had the nursery but it was quite small and I don't think the
Beeb is over-generous with salaries to most people who aren't Mr Ross!


But i would have thought there might have been a business enterprise
scheme or something as it would have made financial sense to safeguard
her workings and also expand the nursery/
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Martin
writes
Again, us too :-)
--

Martin



Are we the only sane people around? Tom and I sometimes wondered that
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In message , Sacha
writes
On 2011-09-05 21:56:06 +0100, "Christina Websell"
said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 2011-09-05 18:11:36 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:48:26 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-09-05 16:54:00 +0100, Martin said:

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:31:44 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

In article , Sacha

writes
Apparently, he bought the land from its original owner quite
recently.
Why on earth didn't she?
Exactly what we asked.
The average price for average land down here is about £5900 per
acre.
Ray bought 3 acres of field from the Church Commission over 14 years
ago and it cost him £27,000 because it's good land and they don't sell
cheap. I think that may be the answer to that question. I don't know
how big the plot in question is but if it's less than an acre, she's
not going to make much of a nursery, size-wise. I know she had the
nursery but it was quite small and I don't think the Beeb is
over-generous with salaries to most people who aren't Mr Ross!
Don't you believe it. Griff Rees Jones gets £2.5 million/annum for
his
holiday movies etc.
With respect to all who work on them, gardening programmes don't
command
very high audiences or fees, afaik!
I don't think she is poor. If she'd had the chance, she should have
bought
the land herself.
Tina

There's no reason to suppose she's particularly well of or could have
afforded to buy it.

It may well not have been available to purchase by itself either. Since
it came with the house that the Tanners have bought
--
Chris French

In article ,
Janet writes
Perhaps just inexperienced financially :-)

Janet
More like incapacitated financially!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article ,
Janet writes
Obviously, at age 65 she did NOT think it made financial sense to buy
the house next door to get an extra 3 acres of land .... when the
property market values are falling and so many nursery businesses are
going under or struggling to stay afloat.


Ah but I did say it might have been in her interest if only to safeguard
her own Business already standing, which clearly, in this case it would
have done.
However as you say who are we to wonder about people's motives I ma sure
there were reasons behind it all.

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk