[taddy]

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1274654]Taddy are you giving up the allotment?
It may be that you can no longer do the planting and the picking, but wouldn't it be a lovely place to go and spend time just 'being'. Nature is a great healer, though | know that it cannot restore us to our younger more vibrant selves.
We all have to accept the limitations that our advancing years put on us...but I just cannot see you doing word puzzles or watching daytime TV.
Taddy the outdoors is in your DNA...if you can spend time reflecting in the place that gave you so much...then do it.

I wish both you and Hazel many more happy years above the grass.

Tomorrow me and my old feller will make it to our 57th Anniversary...and they said it would never last!

Thanks for that Marge, all the best to you and Dave for tomorrow, you have beaten Hazel and I by six months, our 57th Anniversary is 25th March,(the old news years day), next year.
As for spending time just lazing and watching nature go by, I am afraid that this year I have let the allotment re-wild itself, another way of saying that it does not take long for all the work of clearing the weeds and scrubland over the past seven years or so to re-introduce themselves but then again I still feed the Goldfinches, Chaffinches ,Bullfinches etc in our house garden plus this year we have welcomed a couple of Grey Squirrels although they cost us a fortune in Sunflower hearts. (But neer mind Eh), Plus I still play with my pet ferrets who keep me happy.