Revenge is sweet.

[bluemoon]

Our youngest thinks that growing your own is a bit 'sad'. Her boyfriend though has been really impressed with the veg we serve up when he comes round for a meal, so in the end she admitted that they were homegrown. However, under pain of death we were not allowed to tell him that we kept chickens or that recently all eggs have, - shock, horror!!! - emerged from the bum of a hen we know personally. Last night I got in to find a note from her, it reads; 'Ben can tell the difference between your eggs and the shop's. He's insisted I buy him half a dozen from wherever you get yours, so 6 eggs are missing from the fridge. Going to have to tell him.'
Not only did she 'confess', but he was fascinated and wants to meet our girls. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but sometime very soon I think she's going to find herself with a boyfriend with a lottie. Wonder if she'll dump him?

[zazen999]

Is Ben available for adoption?

[HayleyB]

Sweet definitely sweet

[ginger ninger]

How Cool that, wonder if she realises, growing your own is the "in thing" these days. It would be so funny if he did get a Lotty, or worse wanted to help you on yours

[FionaH]

Oh thats just so funny..........

[womble]

That made me laugh, atm mine love the fact that we grow everything in the garden, I await the day when they are embarrassed by it.

[RedThorn]

really wind her up and tell her you're gonna adopt him

[Flummery]

That's so nice. You may not be able to convert her, but I'll bet he can!

[kirsty b]

Thats briliant bluemoon! Sweeeeeeeet!!

[rustylady]

Aahh - isn't it strange that your children never believe what you tell them until someone "outside" tells them the same thing. I particularly remember "Miss" at school.

[Snadger]

Aahh - isn't it strange that your children never believe what you tell them until someone "outside" tells them the same thing. I particularly remember "Miss" at school.

My OH wouldn't eat my hens eggs until she watched some cookery programme where the cook went outside to collect her eggs for the recipe and extolled the vitues of home grown!

[HeyWayne]

Give him a warm egg - that'll turn him!

Very cool - careful though, we don't want this allotmenting stuff to get too popular. It'll be the new Twitter or sumfink.

Aahh - isn't it strange that your children never believe what you tell them until someone "outside" tells them the same thing.

LadyWayne is the same with me - I can telll her something a million times, but when someone else says it....

[bluemoon]

This particular daughter is actually the only one of our kids with green thumbs. When she was small she had her own 4 X 4 greenhouse on our first lottie and grew some lovely produce with little or no help from us, and when this boyfriend decided he needed some herbs for his flat windowsill she stopped him buying the 'useless' supermarket ones, came home, took some pots, compost and seeds back to the flat and started some off, so the bug is still there, she just trying to keep it well hidden, I assume because she spent so many years thinking it was uncool and is struggling to see it as the in thing.

[janeyo]

Love that story!

[Bramble-Poultry]

I never inherited green thumbs - Everything i touch dies - I loved been in the garden with my grandad and he spent hours and hours showing me what to do, I tried really hard but alas it was never meant to be - Mike has to try to keep everything alive for me.

However Charlotte our 10 yr old really seems to have a gift with animals, plants everything and she grew some really lovely veg this year and of course tames all her chickens to be stupidly friendly and do tricks!!! So next year apparently I'm not permitted past the doorway of the new poly tunnel and she is going to do it all - banned from your own garden by a 10 yr old.

All of her friends think shes wierd and she gets stick for it at school but she doesn;t care she loves her lifestyle and wouldn't change it for the world - but of course we are yet to hit the teenage years and peer pressure!