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nicklewis in Silver Bloggers • 8 days ago

My mum used to be a staunch conservative and was shocked when I celebrated Maggie Thatchers last days as prime minister back in the late eighties. She’s now 83 and has become far less Tory in her older years. We seem to agree a little more nowadays.

Mum is also a fanatical gardener but is more and more getting help with it all.

Our childhood garden wasn’t as big as yours but it was big. Enough space to have a kickabout or play tennis in the garden with a makeshift net in the summer months.

My grandparents had the biggest gardens.

Seems that with each generation gardens get smaller, it’s probably modern builders buy smaller plots of land, yet the cost of property doesn’t quite align with it.

Here’s to your late Mum.

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denmarkguy 4 days ago

We were quite fortunate to move into a place that had a lot of gardening space around. Since then — and especially as a result of the Covid lockdowns — we have considerably expanded our space for growing food, claiming the side lawn to instead have vegetable beds.

The primary challenge is keeping our local herd of deer from decimating everything!

I'm glad gardening is making somewhat a of a comeback, perhaps in response to the uncertainty in the world. Even here in the States — where we allegedly live in the Land of Plenty — most days when I go to the supermarket there are areas of shelves that are completely bare and might not get refilled for a week. It's good to have at least a minimal amount of self-reliance.

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nicklewis 4 days ago

I think over the years we’ve become accustomed to good supplies of goods but various factors will impact this, global political instability, poor seasons due to flood, drought and war. There are certain food items here that became scarce for awhile due to the Ukraine war, that in the end I believe farmers in the UK might have started growing again or were being sourced from countries even further away for higher cost.

We share an allotment here which is something you may have in the US, not sure, probably do in Denmark and other parts of Europe.

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