is anyone else 'funny???'

[BilboWaggins]

The same people can't make the link between riding a bike and still being a size 10 ...

LOL !!! The same people who would have been horrified at some advice I saw on a 'Celebrity Diet' prog on ITV earlier this week. It was radical advice, quite cutting edge really:

"Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, don't snack in between on crisps and biscuits".

Good grief - perhaps that is why, like you, I am the same size I was 25 years ago?

[Pumpkin Becki]

That's not a handbag, it's a small suitcase!

LOL - I like to be able to fit everything in!!

[TEB]

I whipped a 2ft long parsnip'

I'm with Bob on this

[HeyWayne]

If I'm considered anything, nobody tells me to my face.

Oh, other than "boring" by my younger brother.

[squashysu]

well i am classed "funny" cause i am in real life anyway ha ha! i shock a lot of people with my veg growing, a lot of people think i would never ever do it as well as compost etc etc!

just goes to show, that you cant judge a book by its cover!!! i dont care what people think, i love it and thats all there is to it! i like to shock people, in fact i think i even shock myself! loL! arghhhh! yep i looked in the mirror ha ha and did!

[OverWyreGrower]

It was radical advice, quite cutting edge really:

"Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, don't snack in between on crisps and biscuits".

D'you'know... you should market that advice - I bet you'd make a fortune on diet books and stuff! I always like to read new research into dieting!

[OllieMartin]

I get it too, doesn't help that I'm a youngster, this vegetable growing seems to be considered a retirement hobby!

I just make it my 'thing', what makes me different from my friends. And they can't hold it against me, because as soon as someone has a barbecue, who turns up with a cool-box full of home made/grown produce?

[HayleyB]

Club committee meeting here last night, some of you may know we have 4 orphan rescued ducklings. Well 10pm........... grown men and women begging for His Lordship to show them swimming in the sink

[Hilary B]

The 'no snacking' thing is an oversimplification!
What matters is the total of what you eat in a day, not how often you eat (in fact if you divide it into more meals, it is LESS fattening).
Crisps, biscuits etc are best avoided, because
a) they use up rather a lot of your 'daily allowance' and
b) they are not very satisfying, so that much harder to control total intake when you include them.

[Newbie]

My friends all think i'm really "sad" for being into veg growing etc, they do however seem to change their tune when there is free veg to be had from my garden once the growing season gets gowing. funny that.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Why is it that even in this day and age, growing your own veg, keeping free range chickens and taking a little of what mother natures intended from the hedgerows and rivers makes one 'funny'

Others: "what's in the big pan?"
Me: "Elderflower Champagne"
Others "oh you are funny, you do make me laugh...where do you get the elderflowers from!!!"

I've had that conversation about 4 times this week....

Is anyone else considered 'funny' - or is it just Cambridgeshire locals

Don't think we are funny - but I'd love your recipe for elderflower champagne. Thanks in advance. Bernie

[RedThorn]

I was considered "funny" even before I started to GYO and keep chickens. The goodlife comments are starting to die down for a bit. neighbours are forever wondering what's he building now!!!

[Bren In Pots]

One of my friends thinks I'm odd because I 'waste' time making bread, yoghurt, pasta, soups and growing veg when I could buy it at the supermarket instead.

[Hilary B]

If you lot get called 'funny' for allotmenting,imagine how my (highly urbanised) family reacted when we moved to a sheep farm in Orkney!!
My sisters still think I am peculiar (even after 8 years back in 'civilisation'..), but they now seem to have got the message that not only is that 'me', but I don't CARE if they think I'm odd!

[NOG]

I am thought that I am funny making my own bread and Jam...buy they never turn up their nose when offered some.