Father's Day Gardening gifts

and from me...

 

Nice one John, I like Dave's books, there were a load of the very early ones, the "Jotter" series in the charity shop yesterday but i'm skint at the moment

Not garden related but this is what Daughter #2 got me,

 

2 paths for my allotment.

 

Not a Dad, but when I am, I want gardening gifts

 

A tray of hot (Quorn) sausage rolls baked by my daughetr and waiting for me when Mrs Scrungee and I returned from shopping was a pleasant surprise.

What wasn't much of a surprise was my card, as we found a card shop closing down several years ago selling off cards at £1 for a carrier bag stuffed full. Unfortunately for both my Father in Law and I all the Fathers Day cards were the same. At least it's only every other year I get the same birthday card.

 

OH got, along with a boring work shirt which he needed, some of his favourite dark chocs from Hotel Chocolat. He even managed to eat a few of them before son number 2 started pigging them. Still, we got our own back by making our offspring walk around a garden in the horrible fresh air.

 

I got one of those lovely old traditional looking wooden tools (off my 2 year old) for making small paper pots out of newspaper.....I love it..:thumb:

 

In addition to baking some of favourites for me this morning, as it's Fathers Day my daughter (only one more GCSE to revise for now) also came to the plot and spent nearly three hours helping with weeding, picking strawberries & raspberries, watering, planting up the poly tunnel borders and emptying a few potato bags.

I'm glad she still shows almost as much enthusiasm for unearthing spuds as she did when she was a few years old (and as I still do), so tomorrow we'll have warm potato (Charlotte) salad with a dressing made from the last knockings of the mayonnaise jar (Mrs Scrungee doesn't waste anything) shaken up with some vinegar, oil & chopped garlic chives.

 

A made herself, Fretwork and pokerwork marine plywood shed sign

"Dads Shed" in copperscript and a rickety old shed with bent chimney
along with a very large Toblerone bar
I am chuffed to bits with the homemade sign, Yep she is 34 and has a two and three yearold so time and effort and all that (her hubby is busy doing the same as I getting a new summer house built or in my case Greenhouse)

My other daughter a box of FRY's chocolate Turkish Delight mmmnnn

Regards All

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Not a sausage here. Still, what I don`t get I don`t have to thank them for.

 

A stag beetle?

My husband is away as the minute so the daughters sent their gifts to America - with luck he got 6 boxes of Maltesers!! Don't ask - it's just that he's got this 'thing' about Maltesers and ever since they were little the girls have given them to him on Father's Day. It started off with one bag each when they were small, it's now got to 2 boxes from each of them. Like I said .... don't ask!

 

I think it`s a May/June bug rather than a Stag beetle.

 

I Got A Nice Surprise(A Penny Farthing Wrought Iron Planter) . For The Decking Area
ITS A CRACKER . Will Need To Get Some Plants in It Tomorrow .

 

Electric clippers to better manage the box hedging which is growing well - great gift, also taken out for dinner by my son ( the other half's away on holidqay).