We're all going on a summer holiday!

Also - every time I read the title of this, I think of this song :



I think it may have some rude words in it (and it's definitely not going to be everybody's cup of tea as I know most people - if not all - won't like it but it's come from a TV show lol) so don't click if there's a chance you'll be offended.

Sadly, when I see the name of this thread, all I can think of is:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxqdIA75sc[/youtube]

Sadly, when I see the name of this thread, all I can think of is:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxqdIA75sc[/youtube]

hah yep, the video i pasted uses a sample of this for it's background. I had never heard this song at all until hearing the one I posted on a TV show and my husband mentioned something about it being taken from somewhere else so I went and looked it up to find what you had posted   It's more that it's not the first version I heard so it's not the first one to pop into my mind.

Hey! Don't be dissin' Cliff Richard.

His "Devil Woman" and "Wired for Sound" are masterpieces...lol

Actually, Cliff was on some US talk show back in the mid-70's and it was the first time I was aware that people spoke English with different accents. I was totally transfixed while Cliff was talking and I started learning about England around this time. So, I started young as an Anglophile (I was six or seven). I have Cliff to thank for that.


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Thread was titled for the Cliff Richard song....  though it sounds nothing like that when my husband sings it!   

We did a two week Scandinavia trip with my parents last summer. Driving along a fjord, we passed a sign pointing to a village with our surname. Naturally, we pulled over, asked around and eventually found a family with our same surname. We went through both family's genealogy and it doesn't look like we're directly related, bit they still had us over for lunch and a tour of their farm the next day (which took all afternoon and led to us meeting their neighbour and touring the neighbour's house, too). It was great.

DH and I spent 6 months in Europe (Nov 16 - May 17) so we don't have any trip planned for the summer this year. We do have a garden going, so we're happy to keep on that over the growing season. We always miss it when my parents plan to come over in the summer. Summer holidays make sense, but it's hard for a gardener to take a summer holiday without the garden suffering.

We do have a garden going, so we're happy to keep on that over the growing season. We always miss it when my parents plan to come over in the summer. Summer holidays make sense, but it's hard for a gardener to take a summer holiday without the garden suffering.

I've tried two years in a row to get a proper garden growing and I am total sh*t at it. Last year I, I realised by the end of it that I had planted things too closely together so things were flowering but never actually growing veg (I realised it must be their proximity because when I removed a few (which gave more space to the remainders), I started to get veg but it was so late in the year at that point that it never great big enough to eat. This year I FINALLLYYYY managed to get like 3 tomatoes to grow! I was so excited....then I went to the US for two weeks and realised WAY too late that nobody was there to water them...We eventually got his sister to run over there -although it was only about a week until we'd be home anyways - and it did rain every so often so, THANKFULLY, they hadn't totally died by the time we got back!

I've tried two years in a row to get a proper garden growing and I am total sh*t at it. Last year I, I realised by the end of it that I had planted things too closely together so things were flowering but never actually growing veg (I realised it must be their proximity because when I removed a few (which gave more space to the remainders), I started to get veg but it was so late in the year at that point that it never great big enough to eat. This year I FINALLLYYYY managed to get like 3 tomatoes to grow! I was so excited....then I went to the US for two weeks and realised WAY too late that nobody was there to water them...We eventually got his sister to run over there -although it was only about a week until we'd be home anyways - and it did rain every so often so, THANKFULLY, they hadn't totally died by the time we got back!

We went to Grey's Farm by Heathlands Garden Centre a couple of weekends ago and it was great fun.  Prices roughly the same as the super market but the carrots and broccoli were Soooo good!

But my kid's nursery manages to grow carrots, potatoes, and onions even with dozens of kids messing with them.  Really makes me think I should plant some next year.  My aunt has a huge vegetable garden on her land 20 acres in Georgia).  It is SO FUN to go pick a fresh salad every night!  PhatBettle probably does the same!

We went to Grey's Farm by Heathlands Garden Centre a couple of weekends ago and it was great fun.  Prices roughly the same as the super market but the carrots and broccoli were Soooo good!

But my kid's nursery manages to grow carrots, potatoes, and onions even with dozens of kids messing with them.  Really makes me think I should plant some next year.  My aunt has a huge vegetable garden on her land 20 acres in Georgia).  It is SO FUN to go pick a fresh salad every night!  PhatBettle probably does the same!

My mom always had tomato and cucumber plants (we also had zucchini and some other things) so it was nice when we'd have a garden salad and my mom would say "go grab a big tomato or two and a cucumber from the garden" Nothing fresher than literally out of the garden.

He is one of them.

I have to work hard to get around this.

You know, it has been shown that actualy JC campaigned remain harder than anyone.

We just got back from 10 days in the US- Chicago, Illinois (where my family is) and San Antonio, TX. We currently live in Edinburgh and play to stay the entire month of Aug to get our fill of our first Fringe Festival.

Sadly, when I see the name of this thread, all I can think of is:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxqdIA75sc[/youtube]

*shudder* 

Summer holidays make sense, but it's hard for a gardener to take a summer holiday without the garden suffering.

Yeap, very true!

I have hydroponic systems for the tomatoes and self watering containers for anything else in the greenhouse. For the allotment mini polytunnel, I have self watering spikes.  I've not needed to do anything else at the allotment or at home, because it rains a lot in Scotland.  I do need folks to come and look after the chickens though at home,  so tell them to help themselves to veg that is ready. 

My mom always had tomato and cucumber plants (we also had zucchini and some other things) so it was nice when we'd have a garden salad and my mom would say "go grab a big tomato or two and a cucumber from the garden" Nothing fresher than literally out of the garden.

Tonight we have freshly picked French beans (green and purple), purple mangetout, and salad leaves of all kinds.    I also picked the last of my cherries, so yummy.
I'm thisclose to having some more red tomatoes ready.  Nothing beats fresh tomatoes in my mind.


I've been on my summer holidays, feels like ages ago in early July.  We spent 10 days in Yorkshire.  Had a family friend get married, so also had my Mom and one of my sisters with us.    Was very nice and relaxing. 

That's so horrible for the folks who can't get time off from work.   Outrageous, I say.  I luckily work for a company that is really awesome about work/life balance. 

We currently live in Edinburgh and play to stay the entire month of Aug to get our fill of our first Fringe Festival.

When husband and I arrived in Edinburgh on our roadtrip around the UK, we accidentally ended up there for Fringe Festival. We were so confused at what was happening at first with all the additional street performers doing some arguably weird sh*t up and down the royal mile. It was awesome! haha

  Nothing beats fresh tomatoes in my mind..

In complete and total agreement on that!