Pixi's Blog 1

It's lovely place I can see why you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing.

oh how the other half live eh?

We can all dream, it looks a smashing place to while away a few hours........

Yes ....sigh

Lovely garden Pixi, we all need our dreams.

On day..I swear..I'll win the lottery! lol

it looks like lots of twists and turns, with secret areas ~ what a delight!
have your bought your ticket yet??

Haha not yet! Going to get one this afternoon!

hope you are lucky with it; i bought few but didnt do very well, then i gave up

I jsut buy one now and again really,,never been lucky,,maybe I'm meant to be a poor starving artist all my life lol

you never know!! maybe a famous artist one day??

Ah well maybe..doubt it tho lol

be nice to have a session in john's [ashwood nursery] garden to paint as you saw the garden?

Ah yes! But then I would get acarried away and paint things that weren't even there lol.
I dont do commercial art lol
I'd give you link to my website but I don;t think I'm allowed to do that?

thanks for the PM. i dont think it matters if you paint things that arent there ~ i like pictures that i can imagine things that arent there anyway!!??

After my Dad retired, he gardened for several people and one was the garden of a house that had been previously owned by Cliff Richard. I wasn't 'into' gardening in those days, but now I wish I'd gone along with him just to be nosy! ;o)

That would have been very interesting, don't suppose there were any photos?

Ew! Cliff Richard! Still must have been intersting..find out more! lol

Sorry - no photos, and Dad's in the Big Man's house bopping away with Louis Armstrong, Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt so he'll be too busy to answer my questions! ;o)

Oh dear, :-(
never mind!

Aw Nariz your Dad sounds like he was a cool guy!

Yes, Pixi, he was. Taught me loads about jazz and how to appreciate music in general. He also tried VERY hard to raise an interest in me for gardening, but I resisted at every turn until he was no longer here, then I 'took up his mantle' and have been gardening my little socks off since! I realise now I took in lots of his teachings without realising it as little things pop into my mind about plants that make me wonder how I knew that. :o)

Sounds like how I was with my Dad. I was always with him when he was in the garden and he sued to maintain a few old ladies' gardens too..loved going there too and getting tea and scones lol. If he was in the shed doing joinery work I was there too etc etc Amazing what you actually pick up without realising it isnt it?
Now he is frail, I do is garden for him amongst other things lol.
Today on Father's Day let us rasie a glass to all good fathers who have taught us so much!
Cheers!

Very nice thought pixi, my dad didn't drink but he was a lovely man.

My Dad has never drank alcohol his whole life! Amazing eh?

What a beautiful garden to maintain....and how lucky you were to spend time there, Pixi :) It is very well established and is so full of interest...the pond is big!