is anyone else 'funny???'

[rustylady]

Amazing how many of these people who call us strange or funny are only too happy to eat our veggies/jam/pickles when offered, isn't it?

[bubblewrap]

Amazing how many of these people who call us strange or funny are only too happy to eat our veggies/jam/pickles when offered, isn't it?

Oh ther are lots of those I'm still giving away last years runner beans & spinach.

[NOG]

I now reward (bribe) my staff with home made bread.

[BilboWaggins]

I'm still 'funny' though. I cut up big bits of fabric and then stitch them back together again. I make patchwork quilts!

Rubbish, that doesn't make you funny, it makes you quite normal - just like me!

[annacruachan]

People have always thought I was funny. Why get up early to hunt for field mushrooms, collect blooms and flowers to make wine, make lotions and ointments from herbs and 'weeds' in the hedgerow when I could get them all in the supermarket? Now I'm seen as a batty old woman because my garden is full of fishboxes growing veggies and fruit. I don't care; I know the value of my way of my life and wouldn't change with anyone.

[julesapple]

We are Weird.....

......or so our nearest neighbours think.

We've always been regarded as slightly eccentric because we don't go out to work, we work from home and we don't do 'normal' jobs (OH is a chocolatier, I organise craft fairs), our kids are weird because they hate football & pokemon and designer labels.

We've done a few things to compound this 'weirdness';

Our garden birds are barn owls, a kestrel, a Sacre falcon and a Guyr falcon. DD quite often brings her work home.

We grow veg & fruit, not just grass. We live 5 minutes from a major supermarket, why grow when we can just stroll over and buy?

We BBQ on Christmas Day whatever the weather. Why BBQ when you can sit indoors with the telly and some turkey?

And now we have chickens - chickens that I talk to. Mad old bat!


Definitely funny peculiar!

Jules

[Flummery]

Rubbish, that doesn't make you funny, it makes you quite normal - just like me!

Fnar fnar!

[mrshopeful]

I now reward (bribe) my staff with home made bread.

Wish I worked for you, I LOVE home made bread

[Two_Sheds]

I'm also considered weird because I have guinea pigs and birds as pets instead of cats & dogs


I think it's a sensible, considered choice, actually ... they eat weeds and scraps, I can compost their poo, and they don't carp in other people's gardens. They do bite though (the birds: they're attack parrots)

[bobleponge]

As I said before, its totally normal here for pretty much everyone to grow fruit and veg, so in that respect, and I think that respect only, I'm considered normal.
When my ex lived here, the neighbours regularly saw the horse being walked down the road, with at least one of the dogs for company, and normally one of the cats too, who didnt like to miss out.
If the horse was walked towards the village, all of our chickens that could be anything up to half a mile away in the farmers fields, would come sprinting up to the edge of the field and follow the procession in the hope of some goodies.
The neighbours have never said anything, as they are far too polite, but I do wonder what they thought.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Wish I worked for you, I LOVE home made bread

I'm wishing I worked for Julesapple - Chocolate and craft = Heaven!!

[julesapple]

Strange though it sounds......

I'm wishing I worked for Julesapple - Chocolate and craft = Heaven!!

........you get really fed up with the chocolate! Honestly! It gets everywhere.

We need to make quite a bit of fresh stock this week, but it's proving impossible in this humidity as the melted chocolate just won't temper. Rain, humidity or dry hot sunshine will cause it to 'bloom' (it goes grey on the surface as the cocoa butter rises and seperates) We have to close all the doors and windows and operate a dehumidifier and an air con unit but this doesn't always work.. It's a hard life, I can tell you

We have a fair on Saturday, so I can see it being a last minute rush to get chocolate made, moulded, decorated and packaged.

Jules

[bluemoon]

At my old job I was considered eccentric, when I changed to work for an environmental charity I thought I'd be the norm, but it seems not. There's one 'Goth' who does grow his own, but in a small veg-plot in his garden and it tends to be lettuces, toms and herbs and the like, he certainly doesn't have the space to be self-sufficient. So my current colleagues seem to think that it's a weird thing to do and is in some way associated with white foundation and black lipstick. The Goth and I have swapped plants (if it were not for him I wouldn't have courgettes this year as I'd forgotten to buy the seeds). He's also the only one I give spare eggs to as he's the only one who wouldn't worry about their lack of red date stamp.

[OverWyreGrower]

I've asked everyone in my department for their 2-litre drinks bottles so I can make more elderflower champagne.... that makes me 'funny' apparantly...

Also, some wag has changed the nameplate on my door to read "Barbara Good" this morning

[SlugLobber]

I was called 'funny' last year. The same people are now happily accepting surplus plants and freebies!

Other than that, it's quite common round here to grow your own!