Wedding Prezzie for a Grape - can you help?

[beefy]

sorry folks i cant make it. As i type this i am being reloaded in rugby with a load of bread that has to be in belfast asap. Not what i was promised and i am gutted that i wont get to meet you all.again please accept my appologies.have a great time all who attend and congrats to the happy couple

[shirlthegirl43]

Hope the weather holds good for you guys. I will be celebrating too - Madmax is coming in to Heathrow as I type! Off to pick him up from the train station later.

Sorry we aren't able to make it and hope loads turn up to help.

[Earthbabe]

Have a great day everyone and I too hope the weather holds despite the forecast. Sorry we couldn't make it.

Best wishes and look after yourselves - anyone got the Deep Heat?

[Digger-07]

Just got back from the wedding prezzie dig. Even the showers didn't dampen the enthusiasm and as I left the plants were going in the freshly dug beds. Great idea Mrs D. and good to get to know other grapes face to face.

What else can you do on a Saturday afternoon when it's too wet to go to your own plot and do a bit of light weedinf and hoeing?

Now for a bath!

[yoanbob]

WoW guys, we now have an allottment! it even has plants! Its the best wedding pressie in the world ever!!!!
Digger here isnt a man as we all thought, he's a machine! I've never seen digging Like it! (bob wants to be digger when he grows up, not only can he dig but his elder wine puts bobs to shame and as for his foccacia bread, to die for!)
Sarah and padfoot were fantastic, and we now have some cabage plants in our nice fresh beds, it was Fab to meet them both.
and the dobbys were great as ever, Mrs D has lots of pics for you all, and we learnt lots, it would have taken bob and I months to get it looking that good, it was really nice to meet people and put faces to names, it really is the best wedding pressie, we had a great time.

HUGE THANKYOU to everyone, very impressed with what we achieved.
espeically due to the rain and very heavy clay.
thankyou thankyou thankyou.

Mr and Mrs K

Whos plots next then?

[Mrs Dobby]

Mnay thanks to all those who came and helped with Yo and Bob's wedding prezzie, the day was a great success!

Weather wise the forecast was terrible, but apart from some medium rain and a bit of drizzle it wasnt too bad at all!

Sarah and Padfoot were the first to arrive, just beating us, closely followed by Dave not long after, and with Yo and Bob themselves that was the team for the day!

Fortuunately Yo and Bob had strimmed all the long grass before we all arrived, so after Yo started to mark out the beds we all started digging! Half way thu at about 3pm we stopped for some lunch, a lovely spread cooked on the barbecue by Yo, and then we resumed digging, with the rain having abated! A total of 8 beds were marked out and dug over, with a fairly thorough removal of any weeds being done at the same time. After the diggin was done Yo planted out some brassicas that Sarah had brought and some pumpkins we'd brought for her, so 3 of her 10 beds now have growing crops in them!

Huge thanks to both Sarah (a very hard worker indeed) and Dave (what a Digger, I've never seen anything like it!) for their tremendous hard work, for working in the wet and rainy conditions and for never complaining once! You both deserve awards for the help you've given to total strangers, and I have to say embody the best sentiments and helpful nature of the typical 'Grape' from the GYO Grapevine!

Many thanks also to Yo and Bob for being such wonderful hosts, for providing a lovely spread, and allowing us all to make such a mess of your kitchen floor with our muddy wellies!

Overall I'd say it was a fun and fulfilling day, especially when you can see what the whole team acchieved in what was relatively a short time!

Piccies will be following later on, I've got to downsize them for the forum, tho I have had a problem with the camera, so although I took a total of 39 piccies I'm afraid less than half are actually usable, sorry!

[Mrs Dobby]

A few quick piccies, the first 3 are the results of the day, the fourth is Dave, Sarah and Rachel, the last is Yo, Robin and a particularly bad one of me! Hope you enjoy them!

I'll try and salvage some of the other piccies, but my camera seems to have been playing up and they are a bit corrupted file wise, but if I can get any to a visible state, then I'll post them! Otherwise, if anyne else has picciews (Sarah?) then please post em and let us all see!

[JennieAtkinson]

Glad you all had a great day. Thanks for the Pics Mrs D!

[Digger-07]

Hi Su.

Just a suggestion but could the camera have got a bit wet yesterday???

Weather wise the forecast was terrible, but apart from some medium rain and a bit of drizzle it wasnt too bad at all!

What she means was that there was a bit of drizzle when there wasn't medium rain!

What are you doing on the vine Yo? You have weeding to do now!

[yoanbob]

just trying to catch up, we missed so much the last few weeks, and anyway I'm officaily doing expenses for work so there!
great wine by the way, bob is very "jellious!"
it was great to meet you and thank you very very much, my dad came round this morning to help with the roof, he proclaimed our new lottie, "very good indeed"
high praise from a lancashire dad and no mistake!

I did notice no one mentioned our excuse for a house, tho suzanne mentioned our kitchen floor as if it was a kitchen or a floor (LOL)

great pics suzanne! hope your camera recovers from the wet,

sarah, thanks for coming, hope your not in the dog house for leaving OH with the kids for too long, it was'nt as tho you we're having a spa day was it!
when we are next over your way will pop in for a brew!

[dexterdoglancashire]

It's lovley to see your photos Mrs D - and what a lovely wedding present! Sorry I couldnt make it. Bernie

[SarzWix]

Yo & Bob, you're more than welcome - much preferred doing that than the pile of washing I had at home! Great food too
It was great to meet the others, Lee & Suzanne are lovely people, and Miss D is a well-mannered, helpful young lady, a credit to herself! Digger07 (Dave) definately has the right user-name, and not only does he dig well, he's a reet nice bloke too

Anyway, I took a few photos too, so here they are;

Before

[SarzWix]

During

After we'd stopped for fuel (great food, well done Yo and Miss D), we really cracked on...

[SarzWix]

Nearly finished!

Nearly 8 o'clock, there's a huge pile for a bonfire (if it ever stops raining...?!) and some lovely beds with plants in!!

(Oh, and a sneaky one of Pads, guarding the weed pile?!)

[Mrs Dobby]

Great Piccies Sarah! Was great meeting you too, and thanks for the lovely words!