best birthday prezzie ever

[lynda66]

OH has just ordered me a compost bin for my birthday ...... isn't he just the greatest i'm also putting in subtle hints for a water butt, and some baby ladybirds. i just found some 330l bins on the council site for £20 including delivery ...... bargain

Lynda xx

[gojiberry]

Yes many councils do cheap composting bins, and a great service they are to. Mine doesn't due mainly to the fact that they do a collection of garden waste and kitchen waste as part of the weekly collections which I think is also great. Any recycling is brilliant no matter how it is done or who benifits.

Ian

[lynda66]

ours do recycling too, of garden waste, paper, glass, and plastic, but i'm not letting them have it my garden needs it, and up to now i've had a heap in the corner

good thing is he's decided i need it now, cos it's not my bday till august

i found a 100l water butt too for £25 with a stand and drain diverter in argos ..... most of them you have to get the butt and the other bits separate ...... so i may have persuaded him that will be a good buy

Lynda xx

[Alice]

He really is a sweetie Lynda to let you have your pressie now - and I bet you get another one come August.
I used to buy my husband pressies of that kind - much to the disgust of the children.

[lynda66]

i know .... he's so thoughtful ..... i think he's thinking with his belly though

funny thing is, he was going to buy me new 5" heeled boots ... (i'm a boot addict) but i'd really rather have the composter ...... gawd, i'm turning all sensible

[hamsterqueen]

I had a compost bin as a 10th Wedding Anniversary present,

He knows how to romance a girl!!

[moggssue]

Lynda - I'm exactly the same!! Two years ago I would have given anything for a new pair of high heeled boots, today I'd rather have the composter too. Are we growing up at last do you think??

[lynda66]

but but i don't wanna grow up ...... *sucks thumb, hugs teddy and goes to look at totally unsuitable boots on ebay*

[lynda66]

I had a compost bin as a 10th Wedding Anniversary present,

He knows how to romance a girl!!

now that would be ok, as long as i got a good meal too lol, i hope it was made out of tin .... cos thats what you are supposed to get for your tenth

[moggssue]

but but i don't wanna grow up ...... *sucks thumb, hugs teddy and goes to look at totally unsuitable boots on ebay*

When I is all growd up I is gonna tut at all the people who tell me to growup

Meanwhile its all in my head - I think - an I is too busy havin fun ...

But do have fun with your composter - all the money you save from having homegrown veggies can be spent on ........ errmmmm, now, let me guess .....

[lynda66]

ooooooooo now thats a good plan .... you mean after son has tapped me for a new pc and a new mobile contract so he can ring me when he goes off to uni in september, oh yeah and a freezer for his room, and new pans and plates and cutlery, and all the other things he just HAS to have ..... so he can keep all the frozen meals i'm gonna make him in and cook them ....... think i might have to get 3 allotments and a market stall at this rate lol.......... wouldn't mind, but you'd think he was going to the other end of the country ...... he'll only be a 15 min train ride from home bless him.

*wonders if you can get stiletto wellies*

Lynda xx

[moggssue]

Oohh, stilleto wellies, now THERES a thought! With retractable heels so we dont go A over T in the mud ...

Which Uni is he going to? I used to work at JMU for many years .... (bet he's going the other way?!)

[lynda66]

errrr dunno, the one in manchester that does engineering (dunno where he got his brain from, must have been the milkman ..... mind you some of them have merged now ..... hark the concerned parent knowing exactly what he'll be doing for the next 5 years lol ...... wonders if i can get him to go into wellie design lol, the retractable heels sound fab